Zac Petkanas, the president of Petkanas Strategies LLC, is a Democratic strategist who was a senior aide to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Posted on 10/12/2020 3:31:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It's time to face a hard truth about the Supreme Court fight that begins this week. There is no secret trick to stopping President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans from jamming through Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
There is no last-minute magic parliamentary maneuver that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer can use to stop the process. The rules allow him to slow it down a little, but that's it.
And there's no argument that's going to be persuasive enough to shame Senate Republicans to look within themselves and do the right thing.
No, the only thing that can stop Barrett's nomination now is if we make a vote to confirm her so toxic that senators worry about dooming the Republican Party if they go through with it.
That requires strict message discipline focused on the issue that will hurt her chances the most: the fact that she will likely be the deciding vote on the Supreme Court in the case to overturn the Affordable Care Act in the middle of a pandemic that has already killed more than 210,000 people in the United States.
Of all the reasons to oppose her, this is by far the most powerful.
We need to apply the lessons from 2016 to this fight and hit Senate Republicans where it hurts — over and over again. That means pushing a single, clear message that anyone who votes to confirm Barrett is really voting to take away millions of Americans' health care in the middle of a pandemic.
If we make it that simple, we can make it really difficult for Trump and Mitch McConnell to desecrate Justice Ginsburg's seat and cement a right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court.
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Zac Petkanas, the president of Petkanas Strategies LLC, is a Democratic strategist who was a senior aide to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Actually, he’s right.. the left will play that card, and the Trump Administration had better have a good response.
50 votes plus Vice President Pence’s tie breaker vote. Please proceed. Harry Reid said so.
JoMa
I refuse to watch even five minutes of this mess, as I already take an anti hypertensive. Hearings should have been bypassed for an immediate vote, altho this will be an excellent opportunity to see the left engage in anti-Catholic, anti pro-life vitriol.
“desecrate Justice Ginsburg’s seat”
Since when is it “Ginsburg’s seat?” She’s dead.. she doesn’t own anything now.
Ohio- Biden commercial. Trump is taking away your social security. They had better counter NOW
"No, the only thing that can stop Barrett's nomination now is if we make a vote to confirm her so toxic that senators worry about dooming the Republican Party if they go through with it."
Which means more violence, more intimidation, and more Nazi tactics.
Arrest these people. I am tried of them getting away with crimes.
But they won't be arrested. Right Bill?
Still More ComDem Insanity. Go ahead and pull the trigger, the ComDems have tried everything they could do to stop President Trump.
It is time to proceed in exposing them all. President Trump is just the man to do it.
Comcast? Yep. Fragment of dismemberment of AT&T.
ComCast = Miserable institution.
How long do they expect this pandemic to last? Is there a case before the court that would "take away" health care from Americans?
Is this the best they can do? She may be on the Supreme Court for the next 40 years, and this is what they're going with?
do the right thing. funny their right thing is our wrong
“Her seat” is just like the Islamic belief that ‘once theirs, always theirs’ as evidenced in OBL’s repeated references to Andalusia. But then, they are allies.
No grass there, just a big brown spot
There is great evil in DC, in many of our state Houses, in our press and in our media.
“Are you saying her ass is grass?”
Actually no.. her ass is FEEDING the grass!
Is Barr one of those Bush people voting for Biden?
I agree. Democrats have been selling that lie every for years for decades.
They can't even sell that BS in NYS, for Pete's sake. Obamacare has been a disaster in NYS.
If I remember, the “Affordable Care Act” raised premiums to $1,500 to $2,500 and gave us $7,500 - $8,000 deductibles.
WTF is “affordable” about that?
RBG desecrated Byron White's seat.
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