Posted on 02/13/2017 2:29:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Daily Beast?
Yikes!
They approved him before....unanimously!!!
The “Pubbies control the Senate and should this mercilessly.
Just remember to clean up for elections, to keep the tools out the hands of Democrats...
Bork away, ‘cept the nuk-lee-er option is in play
“the president could have sent a consensus nominee.”
Like Obama?
A small difference ... Senate was 55-44 Democratic in 1987.
OF COURSE they will “Bork”.
They’re LEFTISTS!!
They’re DHIMMOCRATS!!
It’s
What
They
Dooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Borking won’t work quite the same way again. In the age of alternative news sources they don’t control the news cycle the way they did before.
And frankly, people old enough to remember Bork have never forgiven it and won’t lay down for it again. Bork was one of the most qualified and decent men ever to serve on any bench.
The article is wrong about a fundamental premise. Replacing Scalia with Gorsuch would not change the composition of the Court. Now, if one of the liberal four leave, that nomination could change the Court. That’s when there will be a battle royal, the mother of all borks.
There, edited for accuracy. Also, "chance" typically refers to an opportunity for something positive, so here it should be in quotes. ;)
At least we don’t have to contend with that horse’s ass Kennedy anymore.
Yes, although IIRC, he did say one thing during confirmation that pissed me off. He answered an abortion question that there was no right to privacy to be found in the Constitution. He's technically correct, but the whole paradigm of the question and the answer is flawed. It is not the rights of the individual that are enumerated in the Constitution, so that some explicit protection must be sought against some proposed government policy or action. It is the powers of the GOVERNMENT that are enumerated and THEIR actions and policies for which justification must be found. Anything on which it's silent, the government loses (and therefore the people win).
“people old enough to remember Bork have never forgiven it”
I watched it all as I was working second shift. I wanted to strangle that blonde reporter, Cokie Roberts?
He will be confirmed on a simple Vote or they will force nuclear, which is a simple majority for the next three Supreme Court Justices.
That will become the standard.
You lost 100 years of Judicial activism.
Noticed that as well.
It is nothing but Democrat party propaganda.
The writer notes that Reagan lost the Senate majority in 1986 to the democrats.
Trump, on the other hand, is a Republican president with a Republican Senate.
Some may say such RINOs as Collins, McCain and Graham might vote against him—but I don’t think so. Gorsush will not be demagogued by democrats no matter how hard they try!
Importantly the head of the Senate Judiciary committee is Chuck Grassley, not Joe Biden.
And Ted Kennedy is currently in Hell begging Mary Jo to bring him some water. All she has is some sea water from Chappaquiddick Bay. Sorry Ted!
This is the kind of tripe one might expect from the DB, and a man by the name of Julian Zelizer-—a thoroughly dishonest rehashing and repackaging of the “debate” that surrounded the Bork nomination. I have always thought that Kennedy’s ludicrous during those hearings would set a tone and template for what would come to be seen as the acceptable Democrat “style” for presenting itself to the Repubicans and the country at large. And I was right—it is now THE style for everything connected to the Dems as a Party.
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