Nope. No flaw in the system. The Republican Senate didn't have to confirm her, and it shouldn't have. GOPe invertebrates are the flaw, not the "system."
Here are the votes of shame, mostly the usual suspects.
- Ayotte (R-NH)
- Cochran (R-MS)
- Collins (R-ME)
- Flake (R-AZ)
- Graham (R-SC)
- Hatch (R-UT)
- Johnson (R-WI)
- Kirk (R-IL)
- McConnell (R-KY)
- Portman (R-OH)
“Nope. No flaw in the system. The Republican Senate didn’t have to confirm her, and it shouldn’t have. GOPe invertebrates are the flaw, not the “system.””
The invertebrates got in via the “system” - did they not? In fact many of us voted for them and promoted them during the elections.
And we the people are definitely the crucial cog in the system, so perhaps we the people are the problem, or as that wise frenchman once said - “people get the government they deserve.”
Boehner is joined at the hip with the rest of them. Either that or he’s being blackmailed like Roberts.
The invertebrate GOPE are the symptom of a senate corrupted from its founding purpose by the 17th Amendment. We can vote conservative into eternity and it will not reverse our course.
To aquila48, no living person today was around to transform the Framers’ federal republic into a democratic republic. Democratic republics, either direct or representative are guaranteed to slip into tyranny. The wonder is that it took America almost a hundred years to do so.