Before surgery vs after surgery
Posted on 08/27/2019 6:02:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Over the weekend, the media took notice of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's apparently successful treatment for a malignant tumor on the pancreas. "No further treatment is needed at this time," said Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City -- which wasn't the same thing as saying "Justice Ginsburg's Supreme Court tenure is locked down and guaranteed."
Possibly the least edifying phenomenon you run across in politics -- a highly unedifying pursuit these days, full of noise and rancor -- is what might be called the death watch, as in how-long-before-we-get-to-replace-old-so-and-so-on-whatever-it-is. Few are the political folk whose disappearances for one reason or another excite public rejoicings. Ginsburg -- a smart, snappy and rigorously honest jurist -- isn't among their number. "Long may she wave!" we need to exclaim so as to keep up some pretense of humanity amid all the grossness.
This is not to deny she's a major player in the 2020 elections -- in one sense, the major player.
Maybe Donald Trump understands, and maybe he doesn't, that his widely supported project of tugging the federal judiciary to the right buys him tolerance he might not otherwise be vouchsafed -- and well could lose if certain things don't change.
The bare, spare, unsentimental fact is that The Notorious RBG's retirement from the Supreme Court, due to age and health, would allow Trump this year -- next year -- to strengthen a tenuous conservative majority on the court, made possible by the 2016 election, and possibly the next one up. At the same time, he would continue to staff the lower federal benches with conservatives.
Here, in all its quasi-glory, is the main reason many conservatives cut him so much slack. They want a conservative judiciary. They want to fill the Ginsburg seat. This helps counteract the distinct possibility Trump could be wearing out his public welcome.
Witness last week's rants and raves about China and the Fed. The Fed chairman no less a threat to America than a Chinese dictator? So the president would have it. American companies "hereby ordered" -- by tweet -- to end their Chinese ties! Aaaarghhhh! This is government by tantrum. Did one other American besides Trump find the experience inspiring? One certainly hopes not.
Thus the prospect that ordinary Middle Americans next year could be talked into canceling "The Donald Show" is a prospect the show's star seems not to notice. The matches with which he plays so carelessly could start a political forest fire -- putting the country in danger of, God save the mark, a Warren or Harris or who-knows-what-else presidency.
No democratically elected president should ever take for granted his ability to snap his fingers and make the masses move this way or that. Hillary Clinton did. Look where it got her.
Voters find life in the midst of a political blizzard little to their taste. They don't want insults constantly swirling through the air. They don't want nonstop tweets oozing with personal pride and righteous indignation. Most of the time, unless five decades of journalism have blinded me to reality, they want general well-being and a strong sense of personal freedom to achieve the same, in pursuit of which they tend to anoint those they see as likeliest to encourage or bestow such public ends.
No one should ever, ever underestimate the cringe factor in public life -- a more general factor than the present White House seems to acknowledge. Every president -- hardly excluding the self-satisfied Barack Obama -- is capable of causing teeth to grind. It is the grim factor Trump is grimly awakening.
For now, the prospect of a sure-enough conservative federal judiciary, pre- or post-RBG, plays to Trump's long suit. It helps, like his refugee policies, to keep conservatives and many much-desired moderates happy, if nervous.
Better still, from the standpoint of rolling up crucial centrist votes, would be a widely shared sense of economic well-being, such as we thought we were enjoying prior to last week's Twitter storm, in all its peevish incoherence. What was the point here? Was there a point at all? With DJT, no one can say -- possibly not the president himself, who by Sunday was backing away from the rhetorical precipice.
If Trump truly desires reelection, he should realize he is pressing his kind of amazing luck -- which is what gamblers do, instinctively. It can work, but not always, even with the likes of RBG hovering tableside.
I try to proofread everything I post. The pattern with their autocorrect is that it changes words to other words that look very similar but change the meaning of your sentence to gibberish. Sometimes I do wonder how this is possible. It often changes I to O. Who uses the capital O in a sentence? It is bizarre. Other notable behaviors are repeatedly changing past tense to present tense and capitalizing or uncapitalizing words for no logical reason. With Google's investment in artificial intelligence and varying experiences and behaviors from user to user it sometimes does make one wonder what is going on.
No democratically elected president should ever take for granted his ability to snap his fingers and make the masses move this way or that. Hillary Clinton did. Look where it got her.
Except she was only elected to a senate seat...
“”No further treatment is needed at this time,” “
Correct, you nailed it!
“Nothing more we can do.” Bend over, kiss your A$$ goodbye.
I’m sorry, but this “nice old lady” is a DEMON. How many dead babies will she have to account for?
She is doing the right thing hanging on as long as possible, since she knows her eternal afterlife will be a place of unending conscious torment.
It’s not too late to repent Ruth. Somehow, I doubt she will.
Some would say “It’s in God’s hands”. NO IT ISN’T! It’s in HER hands and YOUR hands for you.
(metaphor)
Jesus is standing on the other side of the door, with His hand on the doorknob. He has already turned the knob. He is poised to yank it open and embrace you.
All you have to do is knock (ask), but most will not.
Matthew 7: NIV
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and MANY enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only A FEW find it.
I notice that the words that Google “corrects” for me all tend to have certain similarities. Not as in synonymous or other features but words that are more commonly used to make a “conservative point” seem to pretty regularly turn into gibberish.
Where was the type of stent specified? I looked and didn't see it. Even googled, and all I get is a "stent" was inserted, and not what kind.
I read it in a couple different places the other day. Did you “Google” it? Maybe Bing can find it. It wouldn’t surprise me to find that Google can’t find it today.
It reminds me a little of another situation. My wife sometimes has a big fit and insists that a pudgy person has stretched out her nice clothes. It always sounds crazy. But we have had nieces stay with us and I think they have sometimes tried on her clothes and maybe even borrowed them on occasion. One of the has a key to the house and may have figured out how to turn off the alarm.
It is curious because I recall the entire point of what I was reading was that they used plastic over metal. Now I can’t find it either. I do notice one curious thing about what I DO find. No article I can find claims it was metal.
Before surgery vs after surgery
If the Presidency was an open seat then I can see the Biden rule applying. Since Trump is running for reelection, the Biden rule doesn’t apply.
Biden made his pitch when Bush Sr. was running for re-election. McConnell held the seat because he could. It’s all about power and position (Which is why some Repubs will object to any nominee), anything these people say is bull feces (Especially if what they are spouting is not a codified rule or legislation).
We have “journalists” like Reza Aslan literally calling for the extermination of every Trump supporter as well as the president himself. And nobody does anything about it.
Screw this guy. Warn us next time if you put up one of his articles.
No. That was Justice Scalia.
She is a evil person who has repeatedly violated the law with intent.
Just because she is old and ill is no reason to lie about her.
Precisely.
One suspects that she's headed for the last roundup, this would be a good time for family and friends and the kind of private and personal support she needs.
That some Dems expect her to extend to the finish line is actually cruel. She likely can't, and (sparing political comment) even she deserves a dignified and peaceful end.
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