Swampās āModus Operandiā: Create a bigger scandal to cover the previous scandalā¦
I donāt care how the Demās do it, but they must obstruct every single thing Cheeto Jebus tries for.
Starting with voting no on Ben Carsonā¦
Oh, right
I fully expect it to be William Pryor, the most officious of his list of deplorable judges, especially after this weekendās events. He will want to nominate the most extreme judge he can find, purely out of spite, and after his little Twitter rant this morning referring to Schumerās tears, he will want to make sure he puts forth the one person most opposed by Democrats.
Over on fivethirtyeight.com they reported that the ACLU received over $24M in donations just this weekend! (That doesnāt include the ca $16M they got after the election.)
To put this in perspective, in two days they got more than 6 times their normal annual revenue.
Keep the money rolling in, weāre gonna need it when we see what horror he nominates.
Announced āliveā? Is there any other way?
Whereās the nepotism in appointing Hardiman?
homosexual colored?
is that rainbow?
Mauve
Timed to distract attention from his other fiascoes.
we are all the Dear Leaderās children. heās like jesus that way, only jesus was a pussy libtard.
Schumer should simply announce that he and the Dems will filibuster the nominee so that the next (Democrat) can choose Scaliaās replacementā¦or they will only accept Merrick Garland as the nominee.
TrUmps sister has been pushing for Hardiman. Not exactly nepotism.
Oh I see. As far I know, she isnāt crazy. Maybe this is a good thing.
They had the impromptu law offices set up at the airports.
Fighting for liberty and justice every day
Send a few pesos folks
https://action.aclu.org/secure/protect-peoples-rights-liberties?s_src=UNW170001SEM&alt_src=UNV170001SEM&ms=gad_SEM_Google_Search-Evergreen-ACLU%20Brand_ACLU%20Donate_aclu%20donate_p_169710879118
Thatās actually kind of interesting. Heās a pure marketing guy, and a certain type of marketing person tends to use words more for their connotations than for what they actually mean. āLiveā just means he wants it to be perceived as exciting and important. āWe go now to live coverage of the exciting and important thing!ā The trouble with being that certain sort of marketing person is you donāt realize that to normal people what you say sounds ridiculous. My sister called me from her supermarket one time laughing hysterically because she was in the shampoo section looking at a conditioner that claimed it contained āfortifying fortifiers.ā
Third option would be to filibuster all nominees unless the GOP guarantees that no nominees will be heard in the last year of the Trump administration. GOP will give no such guarantee, and Ds will be fully within their rights to filibuster any and all nomineesāand to describe this as an āillegalā āunconstitutionalā nomination.
My favorite option would be to zoom out from the minutiae of the nomination by:
- Declaring a constitutional/national security emergency on the rule of law in this country;
- Suspending all further business until the emergency is over.
In other words, to explicitly state that Trump-Bannon-Putin are seeking to undermine American democracy and to stipulate steps that must be taken as a matter of emergency before any regular government business is undertaken. We have a real democratic crisis on our hands, we canāt be sucked into a triple-whammy of a supreme court argument thatās both distracting and normalizing and enabling.