Posted on 02/03/2017 5:28:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Beware anyone who tells you that there is an obvious play for Senate Democrats in handling Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. There is no such play. There is barely any play at all. It is an awful situation, because being in the minority is awful, and if they botch their next move, it could be more awful still.
The most viscerally satisfying play for Senate Democrats would be to disengage completely. As Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer put it, “I encourage my Senate colleagues to give Neil Gorsuch the same courtesy Senate Republicans gave Merrick Garland.”
But it is impossible to treat this situation as the mirror image of Garland, since one integral aspect has remained constant: Republican control of the Senate. If Democrats controlled the Senate, the play would be straightforward: Tell President Trump that the only Supreme Court justice he can get confirmed for that vacant seat is Merrick Garland. Democrats can only fantasize about how stirring it would feel to say that to Trump, though, since they do not control the Senate. The Republican Senate will engage, and all Democrats will have is a good view of Gorsuch’s confirmation.
Some Democratic senators are already finding out that taking that seat comes with political consequences from an irate party base. The knives were out Tuesday among for any Democrats who did not promise to punch Gorsuch in the face upon first sight. When Sens. Claire McCaskill, Richard Blumenthal, and Dick Durbin, to name a few, said Tuesday that they would go through the basic motions with Trump’s nominee—meet with him, see what he has to say, and then decide whether or not to join in a filibuster—they were met with a wave of condemnation for supposedly rolling over....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Ted Cruz does NOT want to be a justice. Will you ever learn?
You have a link for that?
It’s up to the leftists.You want the NUKE? It’s up to you!! You started it— WE FINISH IT. Go ahead—make our day. When we get through with you all you will have left is the lesbian justices. NUKE? Huh?
Ted Cruz dreds the idea right now. He feels he’s too young to be sentenced to the bench for the rest of his life. He says that he may be open to it sometime in the future, just not anytime soon.
Make the Trump state Dems join a filibuster and the extreme libs, if they dare, then go nuclear. And don’t let their state’s voters forget about it in 2018.
That’s interesting. Now all we need is for Ted Cruz to say it instead of you.
I was quoting the Slate writer. It’s in the article.
so he says.
Check out the comments. They are a hoot.
See my #9. And knock off the name calling.
This is a reminder (from the other side) how important it is to have majorities, even if it takes people like John McCain or Lindsey Graham.
So you cunningly, place it next to the title without benefit of quotation marks?... Then demand me to provide a link. You are NOT nearly as 'intelligent' as you believe of yourself.
There is no need for insults.
From the article:
“If Democrats don’t take up their seats at the table and go through the process—if they, with no power, try to tell Donald Trump that they will not engage with any non-Garland nominee—they are assuring themselves nothing both now and down the road. Senate Republicans will find themselves in the clear to do away with the filibuster with no consequence, blaming it on Democratic petulance. Neil Gorsuch will land on the Supreme Court, quickly, and in another year or so Justice Ted Cruz will enjoy swift confirmation to replace either retiring Justice Thomas or Kennedy, or dead Justice Ginsberg or Breyer. Liberals would lose the court for generations.”
What makes these people think that garland would have been appointed by Hillary.
I think it would have much more impact (and exploding liberal heads) if we wait and replace RBG with Cruz. Can you imagine the stuttering and stammering. Priceless!!
This is coming from Slate... Since when did Slate wordsmiths ever care about ‘conservative’ standards?
It sure did not come from President Trump. One more ‘faux’ story fed out to the Cruzites hoping and praying for Ted Cruz to finally be somebody.
IF Ted Cruz had bench ambitions he would have never run, ineligibly, I might add, for the office of president.
We may finally be done with Claire McCackle.
She won’t get to choose her opponent next time...
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