Posted on 09/19/2020 6:55:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
In the coming weeks, as the struggle to confirm a Supreme Court nominee fires up, we will be inundated with facts about past confirmation timetables and other “precedents.” Advocates will try to elevate past practices to matters of principle, and maybe even to matters of morality.
I think all of these arguments should be ignored. The only rule that applies, and it’s a reasonable one, is that Supreme Court nominees get confirmed when the president’s party has secured enough support from the electorate to muster the 50 Senate votes needed to confirm.
Voters didn’t give Democrats enough Senate votes to confirm Merrick Garland (or to get him the waste of time a hearing would have amounted to). That’s all there was to that story.
It’s not clear whether voters have given President Trump enough votes to confirm a nominee this close to a presidential election or, if Trump loses, in the months afterwards. If voters haven’t, that’s all there will be to that story, with this caveat.
Voters in Utah and Alaska must have thought, when they elected Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, that they were giving Trump a vote to confirm a qualified Supreme Court nominee at any point in the calendar or election cycle. Thus, if Trump can’t get a nominee confirmed because of Romney and/or Murkowski (to take two important examples), it will be a tough pill to swallow.
But we may have to swallow it, and distribute the blame among the two Senators and the voters they duped.
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McConnell should tell all the senators if you do not vote yes..you will lose your committee seats...and any goodies for your state AND NO MONEY FROM THE RNC FOR YOUR ELECTION...
It will be the end of the GOP if they fail..they have BS us since 1988
Mitch has the votes.
McConnell should tell all the senators if you do not vote yes..you will lose your committee seats...and any goodies for your state AND NO MONEY FROM THE RNC FOR YOUR ELECTION...
It will be the end of the GOP if they fail..they have BS us since 1988
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bingo
Jam it down the Democrats throats or the GOP dies.
This works for me
Concise and clearly stated operating procedure here
Yep, those with the most votes should win
We agree. It will end the GOP party establishment types once and for all if they fail to vote for a good nominee this week. They’ll be toast. Kaput politically.
Don’t forget to strip them of any seniority on those committees as well as to start a recall petition against them too (let the state voters do that in the open).
Collins is a coward. Murowski is criminal trash and a traitor. Romney is a super-ego with a stick up his butt over losing to Obama.
The fourth man is not well known but is not reliable from what little I’ve read about him.
If Trump wins big, let the retribution against RINOS begin with the Senate.
There is no way to recall members of Congress. Already been the in Arkansas.
https://www.thoughtco.com/can-members-of-congress-be-recalled-3368240
“Voters didn’t give Democrats enough Senate votes to confirm Merrick Garland.”
In one sense they did. Mitt, Susan, Lisa and probably several other R’s would have voted to confirm. What saved us was that McConnell refused to let it come to a vote he would have lost.
Maybe he thinks he does. And maybe one or three or five RINOs are just waiting to have their own McCain-thumbs-down moment.
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