Run in circles, scream and shout!
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: “It would take a heart of stone to read a New York Times article about the terrible tribulations of Red State Democrats without bursting out laughing.” :)
This will probably be the first real decision that most of these clowns will have to make since they filled their diaper for the first time.
I must have read this, in one form or another, a half-dozen times in the past couple of days.
The real game playing is over Collins and Murkowski, and perhaps also the dead hand of John McCain.
If their intentions can be gleaned, the Democrats can stay united in rejecting a nomination, because the rejection will then be “bipartisan.”
What I don’t know about this sort of DC intrigue is how much hand-tipping and bargaining is going on.
Notice how there is no reciprocation from the Democrats of the GOP’s usual collegiality on Supreme Court nominations.
The Kenyanesian Usurper’s nominees sailed through with votes to spare.
I expect that Trump will seize control of the narative and make the Justice choice all about immigration, starting with a throwaway candidate to entrench the issue center stage.
Elections are four months away. Trump can keep the Senate Democrats and NeverTrumpers appearing to enact amnesty through the Supreme court and make abortion just a side issue through November.
Then he can install whomever he really wants when the new congress is seated.
The Justice selection issue makes a really good anvil upon which to hammer the uniparty.
This has to be posted fresh, every two hours.
Keep it up!
Heitkamp and Manchin had the choice to switch parties and neither did. Had they done so, they could have turned this into an easy decision for themselves.
Personally I am believing & feeling that 5 democrat senators WILL vote for any of the Trump SC nominee and that of the 10 vulnerable Democrat senators 8 will lose their seats in November.
Awwwww.
Socialist crybullies.
Where it will really get interesting is if a couple Republicans defect, these three democrats votes didn't "matter" with Gorsuch because he would have been confirmed without their votes, so they could appeal to their red state voters with no consequences. However, if their vote will actually be the difference between confirming or rejecting the nominee you are going to see the democrat party putting pressure on them like never before.
Funny thing is, like this story suggest it my be a pyrrhic victory. The democrats force these Senators to vote against the nominee, the nominee is rejected. Then all three lose their seats to Republicans in November, Trump renominates the candidate after the new Senate is sworn in and then Republicans confirm the nominee with no democrat votes needed. Then democrats get nothing other than a delay of a few months in the seating of the Justice and lose several seats in the senate for at least the next two years to boot.