We have a Dem governor, but a GOP/GQP legislature, in Wisconsin.
The governor is still in charge, regardless of what the idiots in the legislature say.
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Good point, but she should have retired last time. I did vote for her, despite her old age and surveillance state tendencies, as her challenger was way too left wing - a better option would have seen me vote against her.
Much as I love my parents, they are both 75+ and really shouldn’t be running a country. We’ve got to move some of these out, I’d prefer a 65 year maximum age on election (so retire by 71, max), but of course that will never happen. There’s a reason corporate boards have age retirement limits.
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Unfortunately, based on painful personal experience, people are doing well right until the point that they’re not. One missed step, a broken hip or concussion, and it can get really bad, really quickly.
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I meant her last election. I did ultimately vote for her-Obama endorsed her at the time, and her seniority on the senate judiciary committee carried some weight.
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Honestly they’ve been accusing us of murder for 20 or 30 years when you put it that way.
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Mom regrets not getting her 13-year-old vaccinated
Excerpt:
She said the hardest part about watching her child suffer is that the entire thing was preventable.
“It’s very hard to see her in this situation. It’s very hard not knowing if she’s really going to come home anymore or not,” Morris said. “It’s heartbreaking. I wish I would’ve made better choices for her.”
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They are cheering other Republicans refusing vaccination. The just need death. Death to prove they have the power to make death happen. Death to prove they are crazy and should be feared.
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Heartbreaking and enraging
ETA Those who knowingly spew misinformation about covid are committing crimes against humanity.
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ahem
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I guess I’m not as upset about Breyer’s selfishness as others, largely because the Court has already been lost for years (if not decades) if we continue to play by the same rulebook. There is only a marginal difference in terribleness between a 6-3 vs a 7-2 (or 6-2) conservative court. They already have the power to do what they want even if we replaced Breyer with Bernie Sanders or AOC.
Rather, let’s convince Breyer (and Kagan and Sotomayor) to publicly speak out about the need to expand/reform the Court. A current Justice making the case why the current SCOTUS is broken is a powerful argument. It won’t sway Republicans, but it will help Democrats get on the same page with at least the need for reform (even if there is still disagreement on the type of reform).
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At the beginning of Obama’s first term, we had the Senate.
Do you really think Reid wouldn’t have extended the nuclear option to the Supremes if he needed to?
Being nearly an octogenarian myself, I can imagine the Justice saying to himself, “I’ve gotten this far and, so far, so good.” Denial is a wonderful thing; we couldn’t survive without it. If one has no pressing health issues, why borrow trouble? On the other hand, when one is this old, one senses that buying large bunches of bananas is not prudent. In my case my bovine mitral valve is a promissory note reminding me that the last roundup is just over yonder; best I get things in order.
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I won’t hold my breath on whether the current seat-warmers to the right will find such acts constitutional though.
“I like beer.”
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Yea even to a young guy or gal. Reckless as they are.
While we refer to SCOTUS appointments as being “for life,” the US Constitution says they’re “during good behavior.”
That doesn’t preclude such legislation, because it doesn’t mention behavior.
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I gotta boogie (7/11 or a vending machine), but while risky (THIS COUNTRY IS STILL STUPID), term limits is the only option here.
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Surely he won’t retire and then he will die while there is a R-controlled Senate and/or an R President. It’s his job and he can hang on to it until he dies if he wants to, but Breyer’s apparent strategy is a risky one.
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Young you were…
Neither Dragnet nor Adam-12 were Quinn Martin shows. They were Mark VII (sweaty hand pounding the numbers with a sledge)
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I am sympathetic to RBG’s argument that after 2010 when the repugs took back the Senate, there was no nominee to the left of Alito who could have gotten confirmed.
Given President Obama’s insistence on suicidal moderation, I doubt that he would have considered even nominating anyone remotely as liberal as RBG.
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Are you tying those statements together? All of the liberal justices dissented in that ruling, including Breyer.
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