Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday previewed what could become the latest iteration of his “no Supreme Court justices for Democratic presidents” rule.
Are you listening Sen. Manchin?
My but Mitch is feeling frisky.
This is news? All expected as the sunrise this morning.
Note to Dems: His threats mean nothing so long as you are in the majority. Remember that McConnell killed the filibuster for all SCOTUS nominees (and for all intents and purposes, all GOP legislative priorities (of which admittedly there are few) in 2017.
Manchin: “Sounds good to me.”
And yet Manchin continues to fiddle, while our democracy burns
I’m sure if we just work with the GOP in a way that the deem “bipartisan” it will all work out nicely. For Republicans, that is.
McConnell has effectively added a new amendment to the Constitution. A Supreme Court nominee can be confirmed only if the President and Senate Majority Leader are from the same party.
Someone needs to figuratively slap the sh*t out of Mitch. He has made a mockery of the United States Senate.
You misspelled "“violently”.
Nope.
“I don’t think either party, if it controlled — if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of a presidential election,” he said.
And as a second note to Manchin, please note his rationale here, and ask yourself, will the filibuster survive the next GOP majority Senate? Any reading of the recent history of the GOP will tell you that the answer is plainly no. So why preserve it just to help the GOP now, when it will certainly disappear after the next swing of the pendulum?
What I’m hearing from Republicans over and over again is that if we allow them to take either chamber of Congress they will stop the president’s agenda, refuse to certify the next election, and halt all nominees. We can either take that as a threat over which to wring hands and reach for our collective fainting couch or we can use it as motivation to keep them from gaining back either chamber. It’s as simple as that. Also, I really wish Manchin and Sinema would take note of the fact that they aren’t promising to work with Democrats, they aren’t promising bipartisanship if they win. They’re promising obstruction and nothing else.
Great Post.
Well, kinda. It’s part of Ox3…oriented times 3…person, place and time. Of course, generally speaking, if someone answers “me” there’s a 7 billion to 1 chance that they’re nuts.
Just more of the slow-motion creation of the theocratic-plutocracy.
Again:
We have the Presidency
The Senate
The House
We could have had none of these.
We have to take it from there…and pessimism does not=strength
