There's No Rule Democrats Won't Change for Their Own Convenience

I experienced deja vu watching the Democrats’ rule change to include Michael Bloomberg into their debates, despite their refusal to change those rules for other Democrats who hadn’t met the qualifications for inclusion. For nearly twenty years I’ve watched Democrats change the rules to suit their convenience of the moment.

For example, those who are old enough will remember the case of Robert Torricelli, the Democrat senator from New Jersey who withdrew from his Senate race because questions about his campaign finance practices were causing him to lose popularity and threaten that his Republican opponent might actually defeat him. However, his withdrawal left the Democrats without a candidate in that race, which in turn endangered their bare 1 seat majority in the Senate. To further complicate matters for the Democrats, the legal deadline to put forward a new candidate had passed.

Never fear. The Democrats went to the friendly New Jersey Supreme Court and got a decision that allowed them to call the venerable Frank Lautenberg out of retirement and run in Torricelli’s stead. And, of course, the seat was saved.

For the second example we move to the Senate. Many readers will also remember the contretemps over George W. Bush’s nomination of Miquel Estrada to the Washington DC district court in 2001. By all accounts, Estrada was supremely qualified to sit on that bench, but he spelled trouble for the Democrats. For one, he was conservative; for two, he was Latino; and for three, he may have been a White House choice for a future Supreme Court nomination.

I think that is one of the reasons I still, to this day, enjoy every single judicial nominee that President Trump and Cocaine Mitch shove through to the howls of protest from the Left.

THEY changed the rules. From an Atlantic column just days before Trump officially became President Trump: How Democrats Paved the Way for the Confirmation of Trump's Cabinet

An excerpt:
"...A little over three years ago, Senator Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor and issued a warning to the Democrats who then controlled the majority. “I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you’ll regret this,” McConnell, then the minority leader, told them. “And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.” At the urging of Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrats had just voted along strict party lines to change the rules of the Senate, deploying what had become known in Washington as “the nuclear option.” McConnell and his Republican colleagues were furious. Under the new rules, presidential nominees for all executive-branch position—including the Cabinet—and judicial vacancies below the Supreme Court could advance with a simple majority of 51 votes. The rules for legislation were untouched, but the 60-vote threshold for overcoming a filibuster on nearly all nominations was dead..."

THIS, just a couple of days before Trump came into office, outlines how delicious it is. They had no idea on the Left. They were all geared up for President Hillary. They were going to shove the most extreme, unpalatable, unprincipled, undesirable, anti-American, open-borders judicial nominees down our throats. They had slips of paper, already written out, sorted, starting with the worst, and were anticipating with joy and glee the cries of anger and frustration that would rightfully come from Conservatives.

They were planning to shove it down our throats with extreme prejudice and into other areas of conservative's bodies with no lubrication. They were fully prepared to say coolly to us in a Arkansas accent: "You better put some ice on that." They were already planning drinking parties for both cabinet and judicial nominees, where every time a conservative objected, they would have to take a drink, and everyone would have a great time. And we would be helpless.

Then something happened on the way to their Black Panther Party: Trump won.

They never saw it. And even in the lines of this leftist rag I took the excerpt from, even the dimmer bulbs could see what was coming. And even better...they knew...they KNEW that they did it to themselves. Republicans would have never, ever, in a million years changed that rule.

That is why we are always at a disadvantage to these unscrupulous scumbags during elections. Conservatives generally have to play by the rules, and it isn't in our DNA to cheat the way they do. They are at no such disadvantage, and conduct themselves according to the "Rules for Radicals" Alinsky Templates, and are not only unapologetic about it, take great glee, satisfaction, and pride in doing so.

Which makes that giant cow manure cigar blowing up in their collective faces with the accompanying howls of pain and protest all the more enjoyable.

What makes it EVEN BETTER?

The sure knowledge that not only does Trump enjoy it too, he relishes poking his finger in their collective eyes to accentuate their pain and anger.

This won't last forever. And when they come back into power, as they surely will someday, the only hope would be that they learned from their folly.

But that is a faint hope indeed. So we enjoy it while we can!

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