Discussion: Senate GOPers Ram Through Rules Change To Cut Trump Pick Debate Time

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GOP: Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

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Yertle would have done this irrespective of what happened in 2013. Universal disarmament in the age of Cocaine Mitch is a sucker’s game.
All the more reason to keep talking about democratizing the Senate, though.

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Then he will brag about it, and poke fun at you for not doing it. He has no shame or care for norms, its just a mad power grab.

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Yertle has broken the Senate for good. He’s secured his place in American history as the Senator who did more than anyone else to ensure that we are no longer a democracy (small d) but a nation ruled by a minority. Nice work, dick.

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I wish Harry Reid was still around so he could send a sternly worded letter.

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So the internal Dem debate on the filibuster is pretty much over now. If Dems win the Senate in 2020, then these rules will be the default for the incoming Dem majority. Just line up the judges and pass 'em all on through. Go win the Senate.

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There were never any “Bush judges” and “Obama judges,” but for the rest of their stinking careers, there will always be “Unindicted co-conspirator judges.”

All of these turds are fruit of the poisonous tree. Good luck getting rid of that stench.

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Democracy? Pshaw!

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“The comprehensive campaign by Senate Democrats to delay Senate consideration of presidential nominations is now more than two years old,” McConnell said. “It’s time for this sorry chapter to end.”

Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland could not be reached for comment.

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I wish the Generation of '68 were around because they wouldn’t be wasting their time mistaking comment posts as action and fainting, “O democracy! It’s gone and whatever shall we do?”

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It was necessary anyway…and, by the way. the Mueller Report fits into this for me. We have got to get this Report.

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Umm, it’s not cheating in this instance. Actually, what they did makes the process more democratic. Not better, in this case, but more democratic.

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And do it before EVERYBODY accepts that Trump is truly nuts, demented, and organic.

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How many vacancies will there be in 2020? Fewer each day. Good argument to be made that winning the Senate is more important than the Presidency.

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“It’s time for this sorry chapter to end.
”I agree Mitch. Pack your bags and stop by the white house and take home a child.
He is a fat, belligerent spoiled brat with a big ego problem;
If you can’t train him, dig a hole, shoot him and bury him

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Armed with the White House and control of the Senate, Trump is now confirming both district and appeals court judges at a dizzying pace and is positioned to reshape the federal judiciary even if he fails to win a second term.

I wonder if we can convince the sh*theads who sat it out in 2016 (or voted 3rd party) to vote Democratic in 2020 if for no other reason, armed with the understanding that the Judiciary is important and both parties aren’t the same.

Or nah?

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Welllll he tried to do folks a solid and disable the judicial filibuster. Howeva, enough folks felt that only McConnell and Trump should benefit, so ‘no good deed’…

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The solution to this is we take back the Senate. Not regaining the Senate majority is not an option.

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From the late 1840s on, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney led the Supreme Court to Dred Scott and several other truly horrible decisions. He sullied a once-respectable reputation and weakened democratic institutions as he strengthened the institution of slavery and blithely pushed us toward Civil War.

I think of Taney when I try to size up what in the end Mitch McConnell’s legacy will be. He will go down with Taney and a handful of others (Pierce, Buchanan, Calhoun) as one of the most harmful and most wrong of the truly influential leaders we’ve had.

Much like Taney, McConnell is nakedly hypocritical and unprincipled in pursuing goals that run counter to the interests of our governing structures. In a sense, he’s worse than Taney in that his hypocrisy has been so cynical, plain and repetitious that even he must recognize it, and yet he still does it. Whether it is because he’s simple addicted to power or something even darker than that, he seems entirely comfortable in his grim march to the lower rungs of Hell.

If we get out of this mess before our Constitutional rights (especially First Amendment) are eroded and our institutions are entirely corrupted, historians will place McConnell appropriately. It’s difficult to understand how this man could be so deluded to think that he will be remembered as anything but a soiled mark in the story of our nation.

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