Discussion: NYT Editorial: Mitch McConnell Has 'Lost Touch With Reality And The Constitution'

system1 · February 25, 2016, 3:22pm

Discussion for article #246449

humpback · February 25, 2016, 3:43pm

Like a kid who posts “no girlz alowed” on his bedroom door–infantile, uncivil, and ultimately unsustainable.

meri · February 25, 2016, 3:46pm

Unsustainable how?

ncsteve · February 25, 2016, 3:47pm

I’m sure McConnell weeps bitter tears at the thought that the NYT thinks poorly of his conduct.

vonq · February 25, 2016, 3:47pm

Yes, please. Keep them on the ropes.

mattinpa · February 25, 2016, 3:47pm

Well, if we have Democratic Presidents for long enough the entire Supreme Court could die off.

humpback · February 25, 2016, 3:47pm

It is inevitable that government shut-downs end. Likely sooner than January of 2017.

professorpoopypants · February 25, 2016, 3:48pm

No, they are very much in touch with reality and the Constitution, it’s just that they’re shitting all over the former, and using the latter as toilet paper.

mantan · February 25, 2016, 3:52pm

“twisted.”

Mitch, the Senate’s own Chubby Checker…

mcbain · February 25, 2016, 3:53pm

It is really sad that the SCOTUS is now considered a partisan body.

meri · February 25, 2016, 3:53pm

It’s not a shutdown, and I’m guessing that eventually, apart from all the noise in the media (which becomes less effective as time passes) people will realize that it doesn’t actually affect them in the way that an actual shutdown would.

beattycat · February 25, 2016, 3:54pm

It was also “preposterous” for McConnell to say President Barack Obama was “causing a ‘bitter struggle’ by nominating someone” to the Supreme Court, they wrote. (New York Times)

That oughta be in a well-done advertisement, and repeated over and over. Seriously, you fuck, McConnell, how is it that President Obama is causing a bitter struggle … all for doing exactly what the U.S. Constitution directs him to be doing??!?

OlympiaWA · February 25, 2016, 3:54pm

Senate Obstructionist Leader (SOL) Mitch McConnell and his followers suffer from a mental disease that renders one unable to be reasonable or to do their job, it is called RACISM
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thehatter · February 25, 2016, 3:56pm

I like the final line from the editorial…

Don’t be fooled. It is panic masquerading as strength.

So true.

There was a good discussion of this on the Diane Rehm show this morning which went a long way towards debunking in detail the Republican’s argument.

beattycat · February 25, 2016, 3:57pm

My father always told me SOL means Shit On a Log. Mitch McConnell … same difference.

pshah · February 25, 2016, 3:58pm

“Only two Republican senators, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine, were brave enough to say that they would vote on President Obama’s nominee,” the editorial board wrote.

"Brave enough ". Seriously? This is devaluating “bravery” as to lose all meaning.

I agree with the gist of the editorial, but this stuck in my craw. How about calling it doing their job?

hoagie · February 25, 2016, 3:59pm

I suppose it is brave only in the sense that they won’t be able to eat at the same lunch table as the other Senators now.

whiteb · February 25, 2016, 4:00pm

It seems the Constitution is a matter of sheer convenience - when it works for the GOP, we are for it - when it doesn’t work for us, we are against it.

sniffit · February 25, 2016, 4:01pm

To be fair, while he may be a self-serving sociopath unconcerned with any of the substance of the article’s criticisms, I bet he does recognize and doesn’t like that the NYT actually writing such a harsh rebuke of what he’s doing is an indicator that this is going to go poorly for them in terms of public opinion.

sniffit · February 25, 2016, 4:02pm

Meh…in the context of the “this is what passes for moderation” sentence, I read the use of “brave” there as somewhat sarcastic.