Posted on 02/03/2017 7:40:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s long past time to ban those who are still pushing twee Teddy! ;^)
Yes, I agree. The long haul is what is going to matter.
However, I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt here.
He stood up, so I am going to give him lots of credit until such time he gives me reason not to, which I hope he does not.
Cruz did a good thing here, and I hope other Republicans follow his example.
I doubt there will be a big fight over the next nominee for the Supreme Court because that vacancy will not occur during this Congress. It will occur after the beginning of the next Congress after the Democrats have lost at least nine seats in the Senate. They will not be able to filibuster nor will they be able to block the next two vacancies which will occur in rapid succession in early 2019 when the Notorious RBG and Steven Breyer both pass from the scene.
Things are about to get really, really hot, and it would help if we weren’t having to kick each other out of our foxholes over Ted Cruz.
That’s a vanity/pride that there’s no time or energy for, once Sessions is confirmed and hundreds of Leftists start going to jail.
“Republican senators such as Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins are responsive to this cost if vocal constituents lay it squarely before them.”
LOL. He meant “if their masters in the Teachers Union pull their strings.”
I predict there will be two more vacancies this year alone.
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.
Governor Abbott of Texas is Ted’s mentor, so I’m pretty sure he’d appoint a really good replacement.
Who is available who could be as much of a bulldog as Ted Cruz?
Who is available who could be as much of a bulldog as Ted Cruz?
There are nearly 30 million people in Texas. Surely Abbott could find somebody in a state that vast.
23 Dems, 2 indies and 8 Republican seats are up in 2018.
The math is improbable, as in: not even possible for Dems to make a gain.
At least 10 of those seats a very much in jeopardy.
You are going to lose bigly and then the census favors the Republicans in 2020.
Trump for 8 years and with a Republican majority.
If you force the nuclear option just once, that becomes the standard for the next 8 years.
We will get 4 more bites of the apple on SCOTUS, ensuring wins on almost any issue for the next 16 years of elections and 100 years in the courts.
Dems need to tread carefully here, otherwise riots will ensue. /S
Moses can not lead you out of the desert.
Uhn huh.
So, Cruz would not be an amazing SCOTUS?(yer personal feeeeeeelings aside?)
The OP put (Cruz) brackets to signify his opinion, not the content.
We all do it.
Well, except for you....
Shuddup! /S
Well, there will be at least one but, we get two more bites of the apple in the next 4 years no matter what and if we are lucky maybe another but, we will have those four bites in the next eight....
Ignore Jane Long. Burr under saddle.
It's over, President Trump is the president, Cruz didn't help matters at the Convention, he was also more than willing to hide his dual citizenship, and also by entering the primary race, to wipe his arse on the Constitution! So please stop pushing him. Just give it up and stop dreaming about his ascendance to a higher position.
Grow up.
You sound as loony as my friends on the left about something that hasn’t even come up....yet...
Since the senate rules are created by the senate, this past week has shown that any of them can be changed. The filibuster or any rule is only as safe as the issue under consideration and the importance of it to those in power.
Actually it’s in the content of the article....
This appointment won’t swing the court.. Scalia was about as conservative a jurist as you could get, appointing another conservative for his seat won’t change the balance... Whoever dies/retires next however very likely will...
Dems will put up political theater resistance, this time, but the real fight will be when a Ginsburg or Breyer or even a Kennedy, who while considered conservative has sided with the liberal wing of the court at times in the past as well.
They will go absolutely ape $hit when Trump nominates a seriously conservative, constructionalist to replace any of them
Sadly, we are stuck putting up with the wholly unqualified and activist Sotomayor, and only slightly more qualified and less activist Kagan for a long time yet.
I'm not the one who introduced this topic and am just stating the pure, simple, unvarnished, factual truth. You can't take the truth; obviously.
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