Posted on 08/12/2014 6:12:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Only two possibilities, my friends. One: He’s talking out of his ass here, trying to scare the shinola out of well-heeled liberals in order to make them reach for their wallets before the midterms. (See also “impeachment.”) Two: The fix is in.
Over/under on when Ginsburg calls it quits is summer 2015.
“What’s preventing us from getting things done right now is you’ve got a faction within the Republican Party that thinks solely in terms of their own ideological purposes and solely in terms of how do they hang on to power. And that’s a problem,” Mr. Obama said at the Tisbury, Mass., home of Roger H. Brown, president of the Berklee College of Music.
“And that’s why I need a Democratic Senate. Not to mention the fact that we’re going to have Supreme Court appointments.”
You can, if you like, take that as an early hint that Reid intends to nuke the rest of the filibuster if another Court vacancy opens up. Right now, the filibuster still exists for Supreme Court nominees, albeit not for lower-court nominations; in theory, if Ginsburg quit tomorrow, the GOP would need only 41 votes to block her successor — unless Reid suddenly changes the rules once again, that is. Even if, against all odds, Democrats retained control of the Senate, no one thinks they’ll be anywhere near 60 seats next year. And no one seriously believes that Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, would block an Obama nominee from an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. Which is to say, the only reason having an absolute Democratic majority might matter to O is if Reid’s already planning to get rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments too and let Dems confirm the nominee with 51 votes.
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11 justices instead of the current 9. That would result in 6 liberals, 4 conservatives, and 1 switcher.
Excellent question, but it starts with a false premise: we can't trust Republicans to stop crap.
They've not stopped Fast and Furious.
They've not stopped the NSA's domestic espionage programs.
They've not stopped the IRS's political targeting.
They've not stopped the blatant ignoring of the border.
So, then, why should we believe that they will stop this?
Except they're not RINOs, they are the True Republicans.
It's all about brand recognition
rather than actually doing anything — look at the party-planks and how the Republican party has NEVER [since Reagan] been about pushing any of them. Seriously, when was the last time you heard them seriously pushing for repeal of the GCA or NFA? And yet they still bill themselves as supporting the 2nd amendment. What about seriously pushing for actually reforming the tax-code/tax-system? Nope, they push things like tax-breaks, which are essentially gifts from the government without impeding the power of taxation that an actual reform of the tax-system would entail. Abortion? Other than the arguably-useless Partial Birth Abortion Ban, they've done nothing to further their stance on illegalizing abortion — and they don't want to . (Like the NRA, if they actually made progress on the abortion front then they'd lose an emotional hot-button you need to vote for us
issue.)
Don’t ask me. Ask our GOPj friend.
I really believe that Obama and Reid will increase the number of justices from 9 to 11. Then Obama will appoint two new liberal justices to insure a liberal majority.
We need to pray for the health of all the conservative justices.
“How do you feel about Bill Ayers or Eric Holder being on the Supreme Court for the next 40 years?”
Would rather see Ted Cruz.
Congress can increase the number of justices anytime. It only takes 51 Senators to increase the number of justices from 9 to 11. Then Obama can add Ayers and Holder.
Interesting.
It’s pretty obvious he is going to nominate Eric Holder if he gets the chance.
The plank is not created by the GOPe, it’s created by the activists at conventions.
The TEApublicans need to start beating the legislators into submission on following the platform, either that or primary them.
They would have to do it before November before the Republicans 5 take over. That is why Obama said he is going to appoint new justices.
Increasing the number of justices from 9 to 11 to insure a liberal majority is truly the nuclear option.
I'm asking you to explain your comment.. My position is that even a RINO President would have a hard time finding a Republican as unacceptable as Ayers or Holder. Both are extreme - socialists - and they're haters. Tell me a person a RINO President could nominate that would be even close to an Ayers or Holder.
BTW I know you can't defend Ayers - and I would never NEVER ask that of you or any conservative. I'm sorry you thought that... Accept my apology on that... you've been around here a long time DManA. I would never expect you to defend Ayers - it's not who you are.
My request is simple. Who were you thinking of when you made your comment? What did you mean when you said "How do you feel about a liberal Republican appointing unacceptable SCourt appointees?"
I would feel awful if a RINO nominated a Republican as bad as Holder or Ayers... So would you. I just don't know of any people on our side that are as bad as Holder or Ayers. And I was wondering who you were thinking of when you made the comment.
I gave you an historical example. I don’t know what you are asking me. I don’t think Chris Christie would be a good nominee.
Ted Cruz would be my top pick for the court.
I agree with you on that... I wouldn’t want Christie on the Court either. McCain might be worse...
When I first read your post I thought you had some insight into some really horrible Republican - someone on the level of an Ayers...but on our side. I’m thankful you don’t... Thanks for working this out...
You misunderstand: The plank is useless because it means nothing.
The TEApublicans need to start beating the legislators into submission on following the platform, either that or primary them.
Right. I'll believe that when I see it.
Until then my points stand, and indeed your claim of the need to beat the legislators into following the platform or primary them
is de facto proof of the above: that the plank means nothing.
No amount of overt pro-abortion activism on the part of a nominee to the Court—whether a Republican (Souter) or a Democrat—is sufficient cause Republicans in the Senate to say, “This is a person of bad character, who is therefore unsuitable to serve on the Court.”
Howard Philips pointed out to Orrin Hatch that Souter had voted, as a member of a hospital board, to perform abortions. Philips said that Souter was therefore an evil man, and therefore not suitable to serve on the Court. Hatch ranted at Philips that that’s just not how we make decisions here.
Only when Republicans stop repeating the preposterous slogan, “There are good people on both sides of this issue” will we know that they get it.
There are NOT good people on both sides of this issue. The pro-life side is composed of good and bad people; the pro-abortion side is composed ENTIRELY of bad people. ALL pro-abortion people are wicked, violent, dishonest, unjust, of bad character.
Earl Warren was the governor of California who signed off on the internment of the Japanese.
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