I’d be more surprised if they didn’t put up the fight. they had almost EVERYTHING going their way: “Free speech, all you can afford”, the, almost end of unions, the list goes on. And if he hadn’t died … They have to get SOMEONE that makes things up like they do!
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Possible…
I have to say, I do so enjoy watching the GOP have to make the choice between two diametrically opposed positions:
- Appealing to the more moderate Republican voters and Independents that make winning purple state and national elections possible
or - Appeasing their increasing rabid base who has taken their rhetoric of race baiting, faux-religious conviction, and use of the word “Constitution” rather than it’s actual text, as a sexual fetish.
It seems like they’re going all in on the latter…
And they wonder why their leading presidential candidate is Donald Trump, who can’t get 60% of the Republican party to vote for him, let alone a majority of the country…
40 years of poorly calculated political maneuvering, a refusal to acknowledge changing demographics has backed them into an impossible corner, and I for one will enjoy watching them strung up on their own petard.
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While this isn’t directly related to the current presidential campaign, it will bring out a whole new group of voters who have finally seen the last straw in obstructionism. The GOP will lose the Senate, in part due to this, and then the party will truly implode. Combine this with a tRump candidacy and we might see the largest single debacle in the history of US governance. Even the most ardent right wingers can’t justify a blatant disregard for the Constitution.
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That’s what racism does.
In the mind of people like McConnell, the fact that Obama IS the President pales behind their whiteness (which, incidentally, is why just about every TeaBagger, whether they work for Walmart or JC Penney, is convinced that THEIR whiteness “trumps” Obama’s Presidential position).
The problem is that the President does have the ability to play rope-a-dope and Counterpunching 101, which people HAVE to pay attention to.
Because (unknown to McYertle) Obama happens to be President of the United States.
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McConnell and his very early and mysterious discharge from the US Army, at the height of the Vietnam War!
Take your pick!
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They’ve already announced that they’ll prevent that by gavelling into session every 3 days until the next President is sworn in, so there is never a recess, thus the President can’t make a recess appointment…
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.”
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I wish some general or admiral would write an open letter to McConnell and ask if the president issued him an order with which he didn’t agree, could he legitimately refuse to obey it, citing McConnell’s flimsy excuse that President Obama is a lame duck president?
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Only if whichever derper were assigned to warm the bench that day were to somehow be unable to make it to the Senate that day. Temporarily incarcerated that morning because his driver was driving erratically and some suspicious substance was found in the car, perhaps.
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Republican government is broken government.
The Republican congress does not work, unless repeated efforts to repeal a health care is considered governing, can not even produce a budget while in charge of both chambers of congress.
The Republicans have neutered the power of the Presidency, nominations to fill critical posts have been intentionally blocked.
Now the Republicans want to destroy the ability of the courts to do their jobs.
Republicans are incapable of running a functional government - this is how Republican governance looks - broken and borderline useless.
I struggle to understand just what it is the Republicans love about the United States, it certainly is not the government.
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A friend of mine was in a seminar dealing with African American Literature. This seminar dealt with the years after (the first) Reconstruction. The writers in this Genre (like Charles Waddell Chesnutt) wrote novels which featured this dynamic: Ignorant but racist whites dominating and abusing blacks who were highly educated and cultured.
That was what was happening in the heyday of W.E,.B. Du Bois, who had the misfortune of spending nearly his entire life during the time when the U.S, reneged on the promise of the First Reconstruction.
I have pondered a lot about the crime of FOX “news”–misinformation packaged as a “news service”–but I have believed for some time that the real mind control is practiced by the MSM. FOX is a cheerleader for people already “turned”. The MSM is what gives people in a country as large as ours a sense of “what’s out there” (beyond the front door). Given the complexity and danger that families and individuals must confront, this is a valuable commodity.,
The problem is that Walter Cronkite has been replaced with (stenographer) Chuck Todd.
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Relentlessly, most currently elected Republicans, who continue to assert we should strictly respect the intent of the Constitution as written, brazenly seek to rewrite its script as they see fit. And believe if they slickly say it again and again, and the clueless media then recycles their words enough, ordinary citizens, who are distracted by the challenges of just making ends meet, will let slip this distortion of our democracy. This is nothing less than intentional dismantlement of our birthright as Americans by utterly shameless charlatans, shills, and con men, fronting the wishes and veiling the designs of big moneyed masters. Shades of Sauron in Mordor! Where are Frodo and Sam when we need them?
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Maybe. But people don’t remember shit that happens 8+ months before an election.
When a Senator has “lost touch with reality” and “lost touch with the Constitution” that Senator is no longer serving as a respresentative of the people and should be removed from office.
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Not unsustainable. He and the rest of the GOP have been playing the exact same game plan since the day Obama took office. It seems like only now, after 7 years, the NYT and a couple other news organizations are actually taking notice.
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SOL = Shit out of Luck in my world.
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Yeah, I’ve heard that one, too. LOL.
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Except that the great Gray Lady has been discredited by so many for so long that the impact of the rebuke is likely to be minimal. Especially among those Americans who think Obama the Great Interloper.
The criticism will probably be worn as a badge of honor by McConnell and lead to his overwhelming re-election. Seriously.
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REPUBLICAN SENATORS STRUCK DOWN WITH KIM DAVIS SYNDROME
"My Job is not to do my job."
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I’m not sure it’s worth it for them to try to explain the context of their comments from 20+ years ago. Instead, everybody just keep the message simple. In addition to repeating President Obama’s words about his constitutional duty to nominate somebody, repeat that during the 239 year history of the SCOTUS, 151 people have been nominated and every single one has received consideration from the Senate. A handful have been withdrawn by the president, but never before has the Senate flat-out refused to even meet with the nominee.
I’d much rather hear the Vice President or Sen. Schumer stay on that message than hear them try to explain something they said in 1992.
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