Posted on 07/10/2018 10:21:48 AM PDT by Brilliant
The ball is in Mitch McConnell’s court again. He guided Neil Gorsuch to a seat on the Supreme Court with ease in 2017. He’s a perfect 21 for 21 in confirming the federal appeals-court nominees of President Trump, with more to come this year. Given the thin margin he has to work with, this is impressive.
Mr. McConnell adopted as his top priority as Senate majority leader an ambitious effort to make the federal courts more conservative—from top to bottom. There’s only one way to do this—fill every judicial vacancy with a conservative.
For Mr. McConnell, this is a war. Justice Gorsuch was D-Day. Judge Brett Kavanaugh is the slog across France. Mr. McConnell is a general in a hurry to keep winning, since Republicans could lose the Senate majority in November.
With this nomination, Mr. McConnell’s task has gotten more difficult than last year. Republicans had a 52-48 majority last year when they approved Justice Gorsuch unanimously. Now the majority is effectively 50-49, with a Democratic pickup in Alabama and John McCain’s absence.
When Justice Gorsuch sailed through, Democrats and the left were reeling from Donald Trump’s election. Their opposition was inept. The vaunted “resistance” to anything associated with Mr. Trump was pathetic. Now Democrats are committed to blocking Judge Kavanaugh, and they’re serious. But they still have Chuck Schumer as their leader, and they still can’t do it without Republican help.
Mr. McConnell is no Chuck Schumer. He doesn’t try to make clever compromises that quickly fall apart, as Mr. Schumer did...
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I love watching McConnell being followed and screamed at as he leaves a restaurant. And his wife being yelled at.
Why?
McConnell is very effective at what he does, and what he has done for years was pure GOP-E. If the rabid Democrats make it personal enough, he’d be a darn good fighter. He just needs to learn the front lines are now at his doorstep thanks to TDS!
SCOTUS is back in session on October first. He will be there.
Sent to hospital twice Type I diabetes
Let’s hope the lunatics are videoed. I need a few laughs every so often.
Will RGB tolerate impeachment hearings? High confidence she is complicit in the Clinton/Lynch tarmac meeting. Mixed opinion, just not sure if being complicit is impeachable.
I have every faith that Might change will get Kavanagh confirmed.
With luck, we’ll pick up a net of 3 or 4 (or more) seats in November, and rbg will stop her demonic possession of a human body in January, returning to Hell, and President Trump can nominate ACB in February, with her confirmation in March.
I am hoping RGB is out by September. Or August.
She can retire and watch CNN.
breyer will be 80 on August 16. Justice Thomas is still a spring chicken at 70.
rbg, breyer, and then Justice Thomas. The first two back to their master, the Father of Lies, Justice Thomas to a richly deserved rewarding retirement.
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