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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1346162
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1346162
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DiFi, why oh why did you run for election last time?
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Someone else will get blamed and it’ll be their fault that Lindsey didn’t bend the knee to Democrats. Also why wont they support court reform? Dems r so both sides. Mr. Trump (who i don’t support) would cower this committee, but Bide…
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Thank the gods!
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wHy cAnT HaRRiS GeT tHe ChAiR?
uggh
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Sheldon Whitehouse is IMHO the best candidate.
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Good for Diane. Having supported her for years, her time has clearly gone, and she is not all there. Time for her to step down, and let Newsom replace her. We need someone powerful in Judiciary. Will likely be Durbin or Whitehouse, both of which would be great.
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I know lots of posters are gonna crap all over the senior senator from CA – and I personally cringe when my mind’s eye pictures how she gladbodied the Lindsey creature – but let’s at least give her credit for having the judgment to stand aside at this moment.
And while we’re at it, let’s not forget the horrific events that some of us actually remember from real time, in which – upon hearing the gunshots – she discovered the murdered bodies of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk, and was thrust into the blinding spotlight.
She may not always have been the most liberal (or popular) figure, but she deserves credit, amid carnage and tragedy, for holding a shocked city together.
(OK, now let the trashing begin.)
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Whom I’d nominate.
Hirono and Booker not bad, either.
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The next in line is Durbin.
Durbin is next in line: No comment from his world right now.
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) November 23, 2020
After that is Whitehouse.
Will be hugely important job regardless of who is in majority. Either moving Biden's nominees as chairman, or trying to persuade Chuck Grassley to move them as ranking member
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Unwittingly, she read news and PR releases about herself from her campaign team. She assumed it was real news.
I suspect when Schumer pulled her over for a very private heart to stone cold lump of coal, she admitted her mental illness and Alzheimer’s were getting worse. He made a deal, like only Schumer could - She withdraws from Judiciary, he keeps quiet about her growing senility and forgetfulness - until she retires and resigns after the inauguration.
Her privacy and dignity is preserved, Schumer looks like a gyro, and the US continues to suffer from her many, many failures of judgment.
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I have to give Feinstein props for recognizing the need to step away…Would that many folks much-much MUCH younger and with far less time- had never got into the game in-the-first-place.
(At least she isn’t 100; needing her diapers changed and propped up in a chair like Strom Thurmond.)
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I for one will not denigrate Diane Feinstein in any way. She gave it her best for as long as she was capable and had the good sense to step aside. Thank you Senator.
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I know Dick Durbin. He is a loyal, caring, extremely smart, and honest senator. I do not see him leaving that role, especially when there is so much work to do to fix what TrumpleThinSkin broke. He needs to stay where he is and do what he is uniquely and extraordinarily experienced, trained, willing. and eager to do properly.
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Dianne Feinstein has been a good Democrat her whole life. Pile on the hate if you must, but in the last two years under Obama, she voted with Elizabeth Warren 98% & 86% of the time respectively.
Blue Dog she is not.
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It’s always the best thing when someone does this themselves.
Good on you, Diane = it’s definitely the right thing to do.
I don’t know if y’all have seen this - I was washing my hair and just got back but:
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Yes, I remember that day vividly. She was thrust into the spotlight and very brave. Thanks for reminding us.
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I voted for her twice, but she’s past her sell date.
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A lot of people preemptively defending DiFi in anticipation of her being criticized, so I think it’s only fair to step up and fulfill the role as a public service.
She oversaw the most catastrophic 4 years of Republican judicial power-grabbing in modern history, not only hugging it out with Graham but refusing even to rhetorically frame what was going in in terms that might attach some political cost to the GOP. Perhaps because she and her billionaire husband ceased to have any personal nexus to the experiences of ordinary Americans decades ago, her sympathies were always solipsistic. She disdained young people who visited her office to talk about climate change by mocking them and reminding them that they didn’t vote. She couldn’t get her head around the fact that the GOP was wrecking the country and that this actually mattered to most Democrats. She relied on a fading, nostalgic, fortuitous personal iconicity to maintain a certain level of deferential popularity. She personally added no value to any Democratic project of the last 20 years. She insisted on running for office with a view to serving as a senator aged 91, as if being a senator was a kind of hobby and power trip, which it was to her. She has now been forced to step down. Goodbye, thank you for your service, adieu.
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