Posted on 10/01/2022 1:21:52 PM PDT by MtnClimber
“Hindsight is 20-20”, is an adage applied most often to hard lessons learned in retrospect, but rarely to occasions of great fortune. In the case of Merrick Garland, what we witness now of his yet short tenure as U.S. Attorney General speaks volumes in miniature about the damage of which he is capable, if given the life tenure of a Supreme Court Justice.
The career of a politician is long remembered, often either for the glory of a single greatest achievement, or as gored through by a single gravest failure. Forgotten politicians usually have failed to distinguish themselves, either for uncommon courage, or unchecked corruption. Still others are neither remembered nor forgotten but rather come and go unseen,
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, may rightly be accused at times of resembling each of these types. He has spent much of his considerable political career and capital, especially most recently under a hostile Senate majority, walking a tightrope situated six inches off the ground and over fluffy pillows, yet feigning for his constituent cameras, as if having championed such dizzying depths and breadths dwarfed only by those of the Grand Canyon. Or at least of Mt. Rushmore, where upon its noble face he undoubtedly mentally has chiseled his own countenance countless times, lost as it were, in the kind of self-exultant extasy common to mirror musings.
Yet McConnell, despite his many disappointing leadership decisions, deserves to be long remembered if for only one major act of political courage and craft – his averting of the ascension of Merrick Garland, Barrack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, by preventing that nomination from ever coming to the Senate floor.
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0bama knew exactly who he was picking when he picked Garland for the Supreme Court.
Well, I’ll duck and cover after saying McConnell handled the Garland nomination well. Never got to a vote of any kind, in committee or on the floor. Shows the importance of Republicans being in control of the Senate.
I disagree, he wouldn’t have voted any different than the current justice appointed by Biden and he can do even more damage persecuting non Leftists in his DOJ position.
Many of those same people were absolutely convinced that McConnell would fold on Kavanaugh's confirmation as well. Instead, he called in every chip he had, and twisted every arm he could, to ensure that Kavanaugh got confirmed.
And if not for McCain's last minute betrayal of the entire caucus, McConnell would have rammed through the kneecapping of Obamacare.
Many of those same people were absolutely convinced that McConnell would fold on Kavanaugh's confirmation as well. Instead, he called in every chip he had, and twisted every arm he could, to ensure that Kavanaugh got confirmed.
And if not for McCain's last minute betrayal of the entire caucus, McConnell would have rammed through the kneecapping of Obamacare.
The problem is that Obama would have gotten to appoint Garland, and Biden still would have gotten to appoint KBJ as well.
Yet McConnell, despite his many disappointing leadership decisions, deserves to be long remembered if for only one major act of political courage and craft – his averting of the ascension of Merrick Garland, Barrack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, by preventing that nomination from ever coming to the Senate floor. …Utterly irrelevant, Binotto. Funny how you intend to cover for Cocaine Mitch’s vote to confirm Garland as AG (where he’s doing far more harm, tons of damage in fact) by citing his refusal to confirm him as a SCOTUS associate justice.
One thing we need to do in the convention of States is put in an easier way to remove judges.
A court is SUPPOSED to make a decision between 2 parties. Not decide if they like laws passed or not, and not to create new law.
Don’t count your chickens before they’re dead.
I think we all agree Mitch did good on that one.
But the other 99.99999% of his career……
Good point.
You are correct- and Jeff Sessions handled the illegal immigration crisis well. But in totality both were buffoons.
Garland replacing Scalia would have changed the court. What’s her name replacing RBG doesn’t change much.
Yeah, and Obama knew who he was picking when he picked an AG for Biden too.
It was too late in Obama’s term to allow him to pick ANY SC nominee. That fact would have stopped anyone from getting a vote in the Senate, in fact, that’s what Mitch said about not allowing a vote, too late.
If Garland’s nomination would have come up a year earlier then he would have gotten a vote and probably squeaked through knowing our stupid rino’s in the Senate.
>> the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016
*by the murder of
I agree, incoming!
Hardly.
His treatment of Garland repaid a large accumulated political debt that McConnell had already accrued. Unfortunately, he's rebuilt his debt and is not likely to ever pay it back.
-PJ
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