Posted on 10/22/2020 7:39:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"We did it! Judge Barrett is going to the floor,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced following the vote to send the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the full Senate.
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee threw a hissy fit and didn’t even bother to show up for the vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, therefore the vote was unanimous in favor of advancing Barrett’s nomination. In a ridiculous stunt, Democrats on the committee filled their seats with human props— posters showing people Democrats falsely claim will lose all their rights if Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Sen. Mike Lee excoriated Democrats for their “judicial culture wars” and appalling behavior toward Republicans’ nominees in the past, beginning with Judge Robert Bork and most recently with Justice Kavanaugh. Lee noted that while Democrats have gone “cruelly, disgustingly low” in nomination after nomination, “Republicans took the high rod.”
“Hubris makes the powerful deaf as well as blind,” said Lee, describing the Democrats’ tactics as “idiotic knife fights” rather than thoughtful debates.
“Now they’re trying to scuttle this meeting for political purposes,” he declared. “The left seems to think that the Supreme Court exists to advance their worst ideas” and “to tell everyone how to live” by appealing to the courts when they lack the votes to pass their agenda.
Graham commended his Democratic colleagues on the committee for not turning Barrett’s hearings into a three-ring circus. “You pushed her hard, but you didn’t go too far.”
He warned that Democrats are “hellbent on changing all the rules,” including packing the court, getting rid of the legislative filibuster, making the District of Columbia a state, and instituting some version of socialized medicine. “But that’s for the ballot box.”
“I’m proud to have supported Judge Barrett,” Graham concluded
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Rat response is going on now-span. Outside. Lots of heckling-fun.
We had better keep the senate.
Nary a nay neighed by the negative Donkeys?
Congrats, Senate Republicans!!
Now, let’s get her sworn in!
They childishly boycotted.
In related news: Handmaiden Costumes were in short supply in DC.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Dems took their marbles and went home in a huff, like the spoiled children they are.
Now get her confirmed and onto the court by Monday afternoon.
*oof
:D
Reminds me of the time when all the Democrat Legislators fled Wisconsin for Illinois, just to stop Governor Scott Walker (R) from conducting business. Cannot remember the exact Bills at the time, but the childishness is loud in Democrats.
Why not today?
Set the tone for the last Presidential "debate"...
The only result that truly satisfies after another Trump victory involves public trials and years of prison.
Amen!!
That is largely how the left HAS advanced it worst ideas (abortion & gay "marriage") over the past 50 years. Even California voted that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
I thought maybe they mistyped and meant “they took the hot rod!”
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Republicans seem to always be willing to bend over and get the high rod.
After the roll call vote was taken, the vote was announced as 12 yes and 10 no. That was wrong and the record correctly records it as 12-0.
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