Posted on 07/08/2018 12:54:01 PM PDT by jazusamo
Just one day before President Trump is set to announce his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy in a primetime address from the White House, a top Democratic senator suggested that stopping the nominee is more important than the upcoming midterm elections.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., acknowledged that so-called red-state Democrats may be tempted to vote for Trump's selection out of political necessity, but urged his colleagues Sunday to consider more than their political careers.
"Beyond the procedure, beyond the gamesmanship, it is a life-and-death important decision to be made by this court on so many issues," the Senate minority whip said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"The men and women that I work with on the Democratic side really take this seriously," he added, after host Chuck Todd raised the possibility that Democrats could lose their bid to retake the Senate by opposing the nominee. "They understand it's an historic decision. It's about more than the next election. It's about what future the United States of America is going to chart."
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The democrats seem to have forgotten that President Trump has over two years remaining on his first term. If they remain obstinate, he could wait until a 7 day recess by the Senate and appoint someone like Judge Roy Moore to temporarily fill the seat. That should cause at least a dozen vacancies in the Senate due to heart attacks and strokes.
“He might also be signaling that the Democrats know that they aren’t going to take over control of the Senate after the 2018 election.”
YES! AND, he is signaling that some Democrats ARE going to vote for the Trump nominee.
This is “GAME OVER MAN” for the Democrats.
In other words...
1. Democrats KNOW that some Democrat Senators will vote for Trump’s nominee.
2. Democrats KNOW that they will not pick up (and probably lose) Senate seats in the upcoming election.
They are TOAST!
Do it!
We pick up more seats and the SCOTUS opportunity will still be there...
Durbin called American soldiers Nazis in 2005 and he recently called ICE a “group of incompetents”
Say, Joe, you wouldn’t mind votin’ against the SC pick and givin’ up your coushy Senate gig, would ya?
It would really help us out a lot...Thanks.
YES! Democrats - please DO vote against Trump’s nominee - be the absolute most brazen, obstructionists you can possibly be. And by all means - continue to follow your poster-child - Maxine Waters - continue to support her and promote her kind - as even those on the somewhat left side of the common citizens are starting to really WAKE UP - and they are seeing you for who you are... an enemy of the people.
So by all means - sacrifice seats out of principal. Yes - keep proving your hate for law and the Constitution. Continue showing your real side.
I live in rural red state Illionis and while I’m not happy about the kind of Senators that Chicago elects for us, I do get tired of the unqualified bashing. So let me just point out that Arizona must be even worse because they have elected TWO Republicans to represent them in the US Senate and we all know how much better McCain and Flake are than Durbin and Duckworth.
As if R or D mattered...
Yep...He’s a total idiot, will say anything if he thinks there’s the slightest possibility it’ll help the leftist agenda.
Foolish on their part but I can live with that. “Never get between a fool and his folly.”
So lets play this out as a thought exercise. There are two possible outcomes. They follow this advice and are temporarly able to stop the nomination -or- ... well, not able to stop the nomination.
In the second case they will have traded 3 to 5 seats for being able to beat their chest on what they think is the moral high ground while eroding their power.
In the first case where they ARE able to delay the nomination, they will erode their power and only TEMPORARY delay. In the very next session of Congress, President Trump can (and might just possibly) renominate the exact same candidate. Only this time, the votes will be there to confirm. So the Dems will ultimately claim what they believe is the moral high ground while eroding their power.
While not likely to lead to a filibuster proof majority (60), the next election could push the Dems out of ANY power in the Senate.
The typical liberal politician could slice the throats of baby kittens at the lectern and still get elected if it meant that the right to slice the throats of human babies is upheld.
Game theory says the correct response is to make them sacrifice the Senate seats...and then use the larger Senate majority to confirm more and better judges. RBG won’t live forever, after all.
The DIMs are ghouls. They are malignancies on any civil society anywhere. durbin ands his ilk are an embarrassment to humanity.
I wish people would skip Roe v. Wade and focus on other things, such as the Second Amendment. That is far more likely to be immediately impacted than the ruling on abortion.
Hey — Don’t be offended, man. I live in New Jersey ... you know, the place that makes the elected officials in Illinois look like the Sons of Liberty. LOL.
Sacrifice your Senate seat. But, don’t touch mine. Democrats are in a deep seated psychosis.
Ok dirbin,, you go first.
“I wrote this a year ago but:”
The left has totally overplayed their racist, mysoginy, homophobic meme and now are in an all out war to destroy history, culture and our future
They have literally Fk’d themselves in the South, of that there can be no doubt. It’s freaking over for them.
Coal Country? Ditto
I’m sure Trump and the administration wasn’t thinking things would be so bad that even “so called” republicans would lay down with dirty dogs and come up with fleas
Make America Great Again. A new direction for the rest of the century.
Deliver an even bigger majority in 2018 to set up redistricting in 2020.
Here are some real math numbers.
1st. 2018 is not going to end well for them. They have 25 seats up, with 11 vulnerable. Compare that to the Republicans who have only seats up with merely 2 vulnerable.
Let’s just say losing 30% cor the Dems would be a friggin disaster but, not as bad as 2020....more later.
I think Trump will relish that victory but, it only gets better on matters of substance from there.
2nd. SCOTUS...3 more turns at bat over the next 8 years.
3rd. Federal Judges. Over the next 7.5 years we will realign more than 1/2 or more than 700 Federal Judges and may even break up pesky courts like the 9th.
Hell, we could replace a few annoying judges in Hawaii.
4th. The Wall.
Whomp!
5th. Obamacare will be repealed. “OH NOES!”
6th. Lower Capital gains tax and offer enticing tax advantages to repatriate some of the $3 Trillion offshore and put that capital to work investing in factories and new business ideas. This will invigorate the economy.
Boom! Shams Laka...Boom! Oh, the economy this quarter is on track to out perform any year or quarter than the last guy could must.
In fact, this quarter will out perform Barack’s best quarter by nearly double at 3.7%! “Oooh RahhH!”
7th. 2020. Dems have 11 Senate seats up, compared to 22 for Republicans.
We probably have a net gain of 3 for the Senate.
All 435 seats in Congress are up but, if we can get the issues of healthcare coverage, The economy and the wall in progress as well at least SCOTUS we will probably have an increase in the house as well(I am still studying that battlefield and don’t have numbers yet)
So why all the fighting from the Dems and these charges which are no more than vapor?
Well, their product sucks. Its a stew of hate, Socialism/Marxist utopian ideals and more segregation of society by invented classes of aggrieved people.
But, the real kicker is this about Reapportionment. Can you say Entropy?
8. Yeah that’s right. With more wins under the belt of the Republicans we will have a larger swath of land to carve up because the census will take place, which the predicate for redistricting and guess who wins that fight no matter what?
Republicans and we get an increase in key states we will continue to win. Alabama, Georgia and Florida will gain 1 more representative in the house, who will likely be a Republican
However, Texas will gain 3 or 4 representatives locking up the south for Republicans over the next decade.
So, in 2020 we will gain further majorities in the house and senate, redistrict in our favor, we will be in the middle of an economy that out performs all other nations, 2 SCOTUS or more will be seated in our favor, 300-400 Federal judges are seated Obamacare/Check, Tax Policy/Check, The Wall/Check, Fair Trade/Check, ISIS Dead/Check, Russia petitions for statehood (jus kee dean), Trump Re-elected / Yuge Check.
And the dems wander the wilderness for 10 years because they stand zero chance of doing anything significant after 2020.
You see, as of June 2017 the DNC is not only running an insane $3.5 million dollars in debt but, their fundraising is at the lowest in 14 years.
Who has momentum then and who is winning? Stupet fkrs...
And they have no candidate for 2020 as yet but, their current financial or intellectual leadership.
Oh, and that Trump meme “ He’s going to step down!” Uhmmm...Boo Chit.
You are intellectually Bankrupt as the demoncrats:
He’s already fund-raising for his 2020 PAC with $12,000,000 cash on hand.
That’s right. After disbursements he’s got $12 million Cash!. That’s debt free money. Oh, and the RNC is cash flow positive with $44,000,000 in the bank. I ask you, at this point, who is going to win?
Conclusion:
Democrats are so broke they can’t pay attention and have zero money to support any war but a Cheap azz Chinese knockoff of an intellect.
So, get use to Donald Trump being president for 8 years.
I’m all for that. I hope they sacrifice at least 20 seats.
Works for me Durbin - sacrifice four or so Blue seats in the Senate so that the next SC pick, which is likely to come at any time, given Ginsburg’s state, will have the Republicans with fifty-five or so votes, and Collins and Murkowsky will finally be irrelevant.....
All of it well thought out and written.
Your quote below absolutely nails it and the RATs want more of it, they’re committing suicide.
“Well, their product sucks. Its a stew of hate, Socialism/Marxist utopian ideals and more segregation of society by invented classes of aggrieved people.”
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