Of course over at Fox they noticed that Kamala Harris refused to say “yes if we are elected we will pack the court”. I thought her response to this was ok but for the life of me I do not understand why Biden or Harris cannot say “the last thing we want to do is increase the number of Supreme Court Justices but the Republicans have been absolutely brazen in their packing the courts with extreme, often unqualified, candidates and their cynical ploy with the last two Supreme Court vacancies was so bad that we are not going to take anything off the table”. I mean if this isn’t the truth, if Biden in the end really has no intention of doing anything as “radical” as increasing the number of justices then for God’s sake say so but even to be evasive on this question in that case is an own goal if ever there was one.
yeah, Page was horrible … “thank you Mr Vice President” isn’t sufficient when someone constantly runs over their time.
But it worked for Harris. There is no question that Harris could have dealt more aggressively with what Pence was doing, but she made the deliberate choice to stand there and allow Page to “handle it”, and for Pence to ignore Page.
And it was the right choice, because women all over the country were offended by Pence’s tactics.
Biden should say that he will answer Trump’s question about court packing as soon as Trump releases his taxes and health care plan to replace the ACA.
I suspect many of us are puzzled by this as well. There are reasons to be gun-shy – the press seems to question Democratic honesty and accept Republican spin in disproportionate measure – but most Democratic positions are in fact quite popular whereas it is the Republicans who are obliged to obfuscate because most of their agenda is not.
I suppose it should be said, in ‘fairness,’ that some of the Republican agenda is so appalling that many refuse to believe it when described – e.g., Trump wants to end Obamacare. He has no plan to ensure preexisting conditions are covered. | Vox – but that is a broader critique I think and nothing new either; e.g., in 2001 Paul Krugman wrote
…the House narrowly passed a bill that even The Wall Street Journal admitted ‘‘mainly padded corporate bottom lines.’’ It was so extreme that when political consultants tried to get reactions from voter focus groups, the voters refused to believe that they were describing the bill accurately.
Pence’s head is probably so plastered with Trump fecal matter that I am surprised more flies did not follow the first.
Look at the edge of the hair line. Did Mike Pence also use the orange makeup that Trump is using. Mimicking his master again.
What really bothers me about Pence’s answers is both last night and today the media was referring to the VP debate as “a return to normal” of both debates and a post Trump Republican Party.
If this is a return to a normal debate let alone a normal Republican Party, where the Republican candidate can avoid every question pivoting to campaign style answers spewing talking points instead of answering the question without paying a steep political price, America has a serious issue with its political system beyond Donald Trump.
Mike pence …the change we need…get him out of office before more innocents die…