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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Paul Krugman predicted a permanent severe recession if Trump got elected. S*cks to be you, Paul, you’re wrong again as usual.
Paul Krugman’s eyes are brown.
“they will vote along party lines with the full knowledge that they’re abdicating their constitutional duty to provide advice and consent. “
I guess he doesn’t mean the idiots Obama seated, just non-liberals.
I assume you mean Paul K.!
The libtards hate the constitution, that outdated old document written by white men when slavery was present and women couldn’t vote. By all rights they ought to be jumping for joy if he’s going to kill the constitution.
The opposite is true. Kavanaugh will do everything in line with the constitution. He will be a protector of the constitution. Paul Krugman is only an economist and more especially a giant blowhard.
Paul Krugman, of course. :0)
Yeah, 304 to 227 is an incredibly thin margin. And this guy is a Nobel Prize winning economist? Don't you have to be able to do basic math to be an economist?
Krugman got an undeserved Nobel, and is still in denial (or just flat out lying) about the economic revival that is due to the tax cuts and reduction of over-regulation. Oh, and he should be kept upset about it, until he snaps and takes his own life. Naturally I mean that in the nicest possible way. Thanks Sub-Driver.
Krugman; I wouldn’t trust that idiot to calculate correct change at a 7/11
No, Paul, you ignorant cxxt ...
"Rushed and nakedly partisan" was the passage of 0bamacare. Remember that you dumb twxt?
Enjoyed the meme about the guy who literally dies because of Justice Kavanaugh.
Hey Paul Krugman the New York Times is dying... jumping the shark... going under...
What did this guy get, the Nobel Prize or something? For Economics? Really? Can I get the Nobel Prize for touching the oven rack when I knew it was still hot? That would be as equivalently stupid to this op-ed I would say.
Krugman is a poster child for a wasted Economics PhD!
FRom MIT, of all places!
I’m ticked off at Krugman for, basically, ignoring the Scientific Method: i.e., “The process of the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypotheses), deriving predictions from them as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions. A hypothesis is a conjecture, based on knowledge obtained while seeking answers to the question.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method)
Krugman always “colors” his viewpoints, and thus distorts his conclusions, with a purely LIEberal point of view, and, thus, makes a mockery of his education.
Krugman, is, IMHO, an over educated dumbass!
No worries about that. We all will.
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