Cassidy Accuses Dems Of Using SCOTUS ‘Theater’ To Distract From Other Issues

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was dismissive of Democratic panic over the recent Supreme Court decision to virtually outlaw abortion in Texas, saying that the law may not stand and that Democrats are using it to distract from politically damaging news. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1386835
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Hey Bill, go fuck yourself.

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:thinking: :thinking: :thinking:

Other issues such as women who are fleeing Texasstan?

The Big Steal??

Assaults on voting rights???

Fake audits???

Hey everyone…get involved. No way can we allow the GQP to win anything in 2020.

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The burr-head bitch sounds scared, and shocked.

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Right, because my personal health issues are so much less important than ginning up fake outrage over Afghanistan.

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“I wish we would focus on issues as opposed to theater…" Hear that, ladies ?

LOL.

This guy Cassidy is supposed to be one of the “reasonable” Republicans. I didn’t know he was a comedian, too.

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Do “people” owe royalties to the GQP for using a page straight from the GQP playbook? Asking for a grifter.

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Wait, the democrats made the Texas law happen so they could use it as a distraction? What the F?!?!?

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DFL Sen Cassidy you are a physician, and as a physician you know how long it takes to grow a baby. What you’re poo pooing is time sensitive you ass.

Oh and as master planner maybe you should share how you would have gotten all the American service members, embassy staff, US contractors, their employees, and all Afghans that wanted to leave out?

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"Christ, what an asshole." – Lucy van Pelt

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Back at you!

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“People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals,“

Sez Cassidy (R, LA). Yeah, because only Republicans get to do that. And, apropos of nothing, what’s Cassidy doing for his electricity-deprived, storm-ravaged constituents in the wake of Hurricane Ida?

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Republican Senator after decades of GOP lying, stunts, ruses, distractions, complaining about “theater”? And did I mention Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul? Theater?

“People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals,“ he said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “I wish we would focus on issues as opposed to theater. It was about if they had standing, nothing to do with constitutionality. I think we should move on to other issues.”

Oh. And what issues do you have in mind? Minimum wage, Infrastructure, Global Climate Change? I’ll wait. But. Let me guess. Tax cuts!

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DFL Sen Cassidy you are a physician, and as a physician you know how long it takes to grow a baby
The scary thing is he probable doesn’t and BTW

This quote from a Methodist pastor couldn’t be more spot-on.

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BTW GOP he hates you too
Trump REFUSES to back Texas abortion ruling and calls it ‘complex and probably TEMPORARY’ | Daily Mail Online
and
A GOP Senator said the Supreme Court will eventually ‘swat’ away Texas’ restrictive abortion law (msn.com)

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This indicates to me that the Texas/SCOTUS issue is leaving a mark. A wound to the GOP that may well worsen with time. These guys have looked at the internals.

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The Dem coalition is finally waking up (too late for a lot of things) to taking the court seriously. We’ve been misled by the Neal Katyal’s of the world who kept claiming these conservative judges were serious minded jurists instead of the hacks that they are. The big shift has come among Bernie 2016 supporters. They were dismissive of arguments that the 2016 election was the key one for the SCOTUS, but now the left is all in on court reform. A lot of their proposals may seem impractical, but the energy is what’s important. There’s now energy behind the idea of winning local, state and fed elections to prioritize court reform. Once we win, we can do what we want and we should.

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  1. The Texas abortion ban is not the “law of the land,” which suggests that it applies nationwide. It’s only for Texas. This is bad enough without raising the fearmongering level.
  2. Is it possible that this non-decision is a trial balloon sent up by the Court’s conservative majority to gauge the national reaction and how a decision on the merits with respect to this law or the one from Mississippi will affect 2022 Congressional races and 2024? That’s really the only reason I can think of for why the Court acted in this substantively inexplicable way when a Constitutional right is denied by state law. They should not abandon fundamental principles of jurisprudence just because Texas Republicans came up with a clever evasion.
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“Still, Cassidy pointed to the part of the majority opinion where the justices emphasize that they are not yet ruling on the law’s constitutionality.”

Not yet, said Cassidy with a smirk. Not until next year.

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This is magnificent. It lays out, in detail, the full extent of the scam. Thanks!

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