Former Vice President Joe Biden said late Friday that the winner of the November election should name a successor to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died earlier Friday at home in Washington, D.C.
Biden has a dastardly plan afoot: He’s hoping that his suggestion that the Senate hold off on confirming a new Justice will make the republicans die laughing.
A message that needs to be said. Repeatedly.
If Trump were smart, he would refuse to name a replacement until he’s re-elected. That would light a fire under his supporters.
Biden’s also too.
It’s just the opening salvo in a protracted, hand-to-hand-combat trench war. Keep your shirt on. Show a little faith.
And under the 100 million eligible voters who didn’t vote in 2016, most of whom aren’t Donnie cultists…
I’ll just throw my 2 cents in again, this whole election should have been framed around the Senate Rs and how they allowed a lawless world, and a washed up game-show host conman to wreak monumental destruction, unlike anything this country has seen since the Civil War. And that R Senate was what stole one SCOTUS seat away from the voters already, and installed a lying, perjuring, accused multiple rapist onto the court.
Focusing on Chump is just throwing money, effort, energy into a black hole. The public could have been informed and educated about the R senate, and Chump would have been attacked and muddied effectively by proxy. A serious loathing of Moscow Mitch and everything he has done and stood for should have been the narrative. It is not too late, but it is close.
No danger of that.
Please let’s do it
You’ll make a great president Joe.
So mich let me get this straight it’s OK for all white presidents to get their supreme court but not the black man. You do know this is how it looks, right? Back in the day when white people had their restrooms and Black people how do use the other room, or drinking fountains white drinking fountain and one for blacks, you are in a café the white folks could sit up at the counter and drink or eat but not the black folk and last least riding in the back of niches bus. We got your confederate double dealing with a fork tongue The Shwack
Give us a F**king break. What an asshole comment!
If you think you’re more sophisticated about politics than Joe Biden, if you think he doesn’t know the score, then I’d say he’s not the laughable one. Learning to read politician’s statements and understand why they’re framed the way they are is the first thing to learn if you want to understand the game, and it seems clear you literally don’t know that first thing. And talking about being realistic, I know it’s futile, trying to get through to you, and if it weren’t futile this wouldn’t be how I’d do it. Just venting. Occasionally can’t help it and this is one of those occasions.
My framing of a possible Democratic response is, that Democrats, if elected, will create immediate gender parity on the Supreme Court.
Biden should be coy about whether he intends to add more Supreme Court justices. Just say that the Constitution doesn’t specify how many justices should be on the Court. 9 is just a norm, like the norm of not seating a new Justice during a presidential election year, which McConnell just violated.
Not actually sure that really was a norm until McConnell, who respects no norm, decided it was. The law says the president chooses a nominee and the Senate confirms or not. That Trump should keep his grubby hands off is what’s fair, given what McConnell and the rest did to Obama, regardless of any other consideration. Currently we’re in a post-norms world.
If Biden refuses to rule out adding additional justices, then maybe that will entice at least 4 Republican senators to promise to vote no on any nominee until after the inauguration. Because why ram through this new justice when Biden can easily add 3 more in January?
That might work for Romney and Murkowski, but the rest see the world through their lense. They will assume he’s lying and will pack the court right out of the gate.
In terms of consequences and what he deserves I entirely agree, but the people running the campaigns have to think about what motivates voters. We freaks here know what McConnell is. But what percentage of the population knows his name, or cares much about him one way or the other? What percentage could tell you his title? I’m something of a devotee of the Pod Save America gang, and their view is people don’t like Trump but what they really want is the pandemic dealt with, and normal life restored to the extent possible. They think the country’s too divided. Is that not correct? I am explicitly saying that it’s not time to sing “Kumbayah,” and anyone who thinks I am will be reminded in tart terms of that. But take Beto as an object lesson. He damn near unseated Cruz and he didn’t do it by yelling how much Republicans suck. He actually told them at least once I know of that he hears them, but he sees things a bit differently, and explained why. Making people feel heard is powerful. It’s one reason Trump won.
Truth hurts but denying it doesn’t help anyone.
There’s no war and there’s nothing protracted.
It’s a certainty and it will be over in a flash and there ain’t nothing no-one can do to stop it.
So the focus should be: WHAT THEN?