Posted on 04/03/2017 2:27:16 PM PDT by CptnObvious
Several senators announced their opposition to Gorsuch on Monday ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee vote.
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They excluded the Supreme Court when they changed the rule.
They don’t actually debate anymore. They just pretend.
McConnell should change that rule right now.
Then let the Dems make fools of themselves until the country is sick of hearing about...then nuke them.
BTW, they have offered a deal only an idiot would take (which worries me). They won’t filibuster Gorsuch if Repubs agree to not nuke on later confirmations.
No helping it - gotta invoke the Reid Rule.
No.
Of course they made their own little exception so what?
The same Republican Party that ended the democrat slavery exception to the rule that all men are created equal can absolutely end the democrat exception to the rule that grants democrat fascists ownership of the USSC.
I respectfully disagree. Not that they'll turn out to be right, but I think the liberal calculus is that they want to force the use of the nuclear option now, when they already know Gorsuch is going to be confirmed. They believe that will result either in a more moderate pick next time, or that they'll paint the Republicans as extremists and anti-women, and racist, if/when Trump names another conservative.
I can hear their arguments already, about how Trump got his conservative pick to replace Scalia, and that "it would only be fair" to name a Kennedy or Ginsberg replacement with a like-minded judge. The Dems will be doing their level best to flog this issue all the way to the mid-terms.
Paint away.
They do this as a matter of perpetual desperation.
Has nothing to do with any particular issue.
Libs can’t win on substance.
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