Posted on 04/10/2017 12:25:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In before the howling lynch mob arrives.
Giving credit where credit is due.
Mitch has been playing ball more than Ryan these days.
I have been brutal to McConnell over time. For eight years I watched the man have almost no backbone when it came to Obama. It was excruciating to watch.
When a guy deserves to be taken to task, I’ll do it.
When he deserves praise, I’ll admit it and do that too.
When the SCOTUS vacancy occurred last year, McConnell stood fast against an Obama named replacement. From my perspective, it was against everything I’ve come to think of him. Perhaps it was payback for what Obama had been to the nation. Maybe that’s too high minded...
What I do know, is that he protected the court, and he set the stage for a good man/woman to be nominated. Trump came along and true to his word, he named a great man Neil Gorsuch for the job.
This will IMO be McConnell’s finest hour. This was such a crucial matter, it would be wrong of me not to come here and recognize him for it.
Another FReeper mentioned this to me a while back, and he was right to do so.
McConnell made this morning’s swearing in of a good man possible.
I salute him for it.
Trump could have been sworn in with no openings.
Way to go Mitch. Thank you very much. Our nation is more safe due to your efforts.
Bullshit. The majority of Trump's voters loved the guy and couldn't wait to vote for him! This seat was very very important to me but it's certainly not the sole reason, or the deciding factor in my support for Donald Trump.
I’m with you. I pounded a whole bunch of keys on my keyboard ranting about Mitch. But I gotta give it to him here. He handled this whole thing brilliantly. From the refusal to consider Merrick Garland to the ‘nuclear’ option. Which by the way isn’t nuclear at all. The filibuster is not dead and buried but I sure wish it were. But Mitch McConnell gets a heartfelt kudos from me. Don’t get used to it Mitch...you gotta earn the next one too.
I GUARANTEE you the next time the Dems own the Senate by even ONE vote, the filibuster is nuked for ALL legislation on day one. McConnell might as well do it now and get some real stuff done for the next four years.
Mitch held serve. I think all along the Rats knew they weren’t going to win this battle to replace the most Conservative member of the Court with a liberal, the best they could do was to attempt to get leverage for upcoming picks to replace the Liberals on the Court.
Kudos to the majority leader for pushing aside Obama nominated judge and saving the seat for judge Gorsuch. And then McConnell displayed courage & skill in using the nuclear option to get Gorsuch become justice Gorsuch.
Rofl, so UpChuck Schumer, uber-arrogant Mr. Harvard grad, proved intensely stupid and short-sighted.
If he had saved his powder for the later fight, he very likely could have swayed 3 wavering RINOs to help him to preserve the filibuster. Instead, he as lost the filibuster and Ginsburg, Breyer, et al.could well vacate the court in the next 3 years.
I do so love it when the Democraps screw themselves.
Like so many of you others I am not a Mitch fan. However,
I think it is damned decent of all of you who see your
way clear to giving credit where credit is due.
Pro-life, 2nd Amendment, religious Christian, and Constitutional conservative voters are supremely aware of the importance of judges and especially Supreme Court appointments. Primarily, they aren’t necessarily Trump fans or fans of any person. They are ISSUE VOTERS who will support anyone who sincerely claims to support their cause. If Trump (or any other politician for that matter) strays too far from his stated campaign policies policies, they are easy to lose.
That said, I will still be cautiously looking out for signs of McDaniel-style racist Democrat tactics being used against Republican conservative candidates, and "Rube Goldberg" legislation that turns "power votes" into weak "votes to overturn," like McConnell did with Obama's debt ceilings and treaty votes.
-PJ
At times McConnell has infuriated me over the years, but he has a long history of being VERY SOLID when it comes to getting quality judges confirmed. His defense of Gorsuch and future Republican nominees is expected.
Another bullet we dodged.
Mitch may have made medical history too, the first time a human has ever grown a new spine.
The SC picks made me a Trump promoter. I preferred several others over Trump in the primary. After he won he had my support. When he announced his SC picks I started persuading others to vote for him. I live, work, and socialize with very conservatively people. It was never a given with any of them that they would vote for Trump even though they would not vote for Hillary. The SC pick list was brilliant. He polished the deal off with immigration control.
I and many others on this forum boiled this election down to SC picks and immigration. That’s why we are not flipping out over all the other stuff. Trump must and needs only to deliver on these two things. And so far he is MAGA!
McConnell deserves credit due. He also deserves credit for changing these rules being we have two abortionists among the Senate on the Republican side.
Roe won using fraud with a false story. How many millions killed since then? What would be the problem with overturning that back to the states for starters?
The two female abortionists were willing to put left wing justices in rather than those that go by the constitution.
Absolutely, my good FRiend, this is Mitch's finest hour.
Might a few of McConnell's fellow congressional GOPers take notice and be a little brave and assertive as well?
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