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....
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You can only wish. How many times have I responded to you in the past three months. Not everything is about you. But, at least you admit you have set a pattern.
I “admitted” nothing. Get some professional help.
Spoken like the pretender that you are.. i have the only ‘professional’ help any body requires... I remember Gideon in South Carolina... patterns and such.
“Gideon in South Carolina?” Is that code for something? Is there anyone there who can drive you to the emergency room?
To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz seems to be living rent free in the mind of many of President Trump’s supporters who are still fighting the primary battles. Just one small point to keep in mind is that Senator Cruz can’t appoint himself to the court. Appointments are within the purview of the president and the president alone, and if he were to make a “bad” appointment, that would be his fault, not the fault of the person he appointed.
Ted has said he doesn’t want it.
He is too valuable in the Senate. As someone suggested, he ought to be in Ditch’s spot.
President Trump has a list of 21. Most of them are good choices. He doesn’t need to go off the list.
If Ted were appointed to the Supreme Court, the senator you’d get to replace him wouldn’t be as good.
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