Posted on 09/03/2018 3:17:12 PM PDT by upchuck
President Trump likes to complain about “Fake News.”
So, here’s some very real news for him:
Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”
“A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation’s population,” David Wasserman, an editor for The Cook Political Report, wrote in a recent New York Times column.
He added that the crucial Senate seats this November would be “much whiter, more rural and pro-Trump than the nation as a whole. In effect, geography could again be Mr. Trump’s greatest protector: After all, the Senate — not the House — would have the final say on any impeachment proceedings,” Wasserman argued.
Think about this — America’s politics are being run by a cabal in the Senate that fails to represent 82 percent of the American people.
For starters, the 18 percent controlling the Senate have their own right-wing agenda beyond protecting an unpopular president.
They want a Supreme Court majority that reflects their views and not the views of the majority of the people.
To take control of the court they blocked President Obama — a Democrat twice elected with a majority of the popular vote as well as a majority of the electoral college — for close to a year from appointing a centrist judge to the high court.
Senate Republicans, including Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa), who will preside over this week’s hearings, refused to even give Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing, let alone an up or down vote.
And now having already replaced Garland and installed a solid conservative — Neil Gorsuch — the Senate Republicans, who represent fewer than 1-in-5 Americans, are about to force another conservative on the Supreme Court.
If they succeed in locking in another conservative, this time Judge Brett Kavanaugh, they will cement a conservative majority on the court for decades in an act that might be described as tyranny.
It is not just the Senate that is acting against the will of the majority.
Remember that both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were nominated by a president who lost the popular vote by almost three million votes.
More of Juan’s brilliant insights (better known as leftist BS) at the link.
He says Whiter like that is a bad thing.
What a racist bastard.
Hold on to that dream, Whon...
Playing that good old RACE card again. They have nothing else.
Not as fake as Juan Williams’ brain.
Fuzzy math.
“If they succeed in locking in another conservative, this time Judge Brett Kavanaugh, they will cement a conservative majority on the court for decades in an act that might be described as tyranny.”
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If conservatives do it, it’s “tyranny”. Ok, Gotcha. (eyes looking up)
Way the cookie crumbles, Lefty! Who threw in the “Nuclear Option”?
Why you did, didn’t you?
Enjoy the new Supreme Court!
More staggering ignorance and stupidity on display. OF COURSE the Senate doesn’t reflect the population makeup. It was specifically designed that way to represents the makeup of the STATES comprising the REPUBLIC. Juan Williams is such a moron.
Juan Williams is the Washington Generals of Fox News. Was he one of McNamara’s 100,000?
I hope he keeps thinking that.
Poverty Pimp
Also know as the House Negro Syndrome
Sure Juan whatever get’s you through the day
I think this is because the Media can concentrate its influence on the few Senators up for election each election cycle. Thus we get a disproportionate number of Progressive senators in the Senate.
Juan is Fox News token Black Liberal “contributor.” Even his son is a Republican. I guess the “fruit” fell far from the tree. When they tee him up, I generally hit the mute button because his commentary is so transparently liberal and sophomoric that I won’t waste my time listening.
His two sons are both Republican..must pain Juan that his two sons decided to leave the Democrat plantation
We'll see in about 9 weeks won't we?
Juan, it’s called a Constitutional Republic. And under the Constitution, the Senate is organized with 2 senators per state. Next question?
Token Hell, they’ve got up toward 50 of them, it seems like.
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