Posted on 09/06/2018 2:07:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution
The legitimacy of the Supreme Court is on the line.
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
Sept. 6, 2018
At a fundamental level, the attempt to jam Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court closely resembles the way Republicans passed a tax cut last year. Once again we see a rushed, nakedly partisan process, with G.O.P. leaders withholding much of the information that’s supposed to go into congressional deliberations. Once again the outcome is all too likely to rest on pure tribalism: Unless some Republicans develop a very late case of conscience, they will vote along party lines with the full knowledge that they’re abdicating their constitutional duty to provide advice and consent.
True, Kavanaugh is at least getting a hearing, which the tax bill never did. But he’s bobbing and weaving his way through, refusing to answer even straightforward questions, displaying an evasiveness utterly at odds with the probity we used to expect of Supreme Court justices.
No, the real difference from the tax bill story is that last year we were talking only about a couple of trillion dollars. This year we’re talking about the future of the Republic. For a Kavanaugh confirmation will set us up for multiple constitutional crises.
After all, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, we will be trying to navigate a turbulent era in American politics with a Supreme Court in which two seats were effectively stolen. First Republicans refused even to give President Barack Obama’s nominee so much as a hearing; then they will have filled two positions with nominees chosen by a president who lost the popular vote and eked out an Electoral College win only with aid from a hostile foreign power.
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Kavanaugh will kill the imaginary Constitution that Krugman worships.
Lol !!!!!
insert your favorite laugh gif here !
BTW: You will notice that whenever liberals talk about "the Constitution" they mean the Bill of Rights (as currently interpreted) and only the Bill of Rights. I have long thought that those ten amendments were a mistake.
“———————————president who lost the popular vote and eked out an Electoral College win only with aid from a hostile foreign power.”
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I must have been in a coma——— I completely missed that hostile power news .
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Krugman has apparently forgotten the time frame of “...you have to pass the bill to see what’s in it...” and similar situations during the Obama sojourn in office.
Krugman, NYT, Nov. 9, 2016: “We are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.”
I hope he does what they fear, and more.
Kill the Constitution = following the letter of the law instead of making shit up to satisfy the liberal agenda
Krugman is one of the politically deranged viral infections that was infecting the Democrats since long before Trump, and now, as he grasps even more anxiously at straw man arguments, just how deranged he is is magnified.
Yeah, Paul Krugman has been right about so much.
For some reason, ‘Rats like to talk about killing, a lot. Why is that? Projection?
If that were really true Krugman would give him a Lewinsky.
Is Krugman still brain dead?
Wow! Paul has a hard time getting economics right. And that is his area. But the Constitution, judges, and the law are not his area. So how right could he be in an area he knows nothing about?
Just think. This guy’s an economist.
/Eyeroll.
Human waste outing themselves, IMO. Spawned under rocks and they’re crawling out 24/7.
You could stuff a hundred pillows with the hair on Krugman’s ass.
Like how they found the Constitution actually allows the government to force you to buy something but shall not be infringed has no meaning and somewhere in there is the right to abortion?
NYT overtakes Pravda on the left
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