Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sounded the alarm to his colleagues on Sunday, a day before Vice President Mike Pence will preside over Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation vote. Pence is set to appear on the Senate floor on Monday despite several of the VP’s aides testing positive for COVID-19.
Kamala had better not be anywhere near that building.
Inexplicable?
Quite the opposite.
It’s inevitable. Corruption of SCOTUS trumps control of Covid.
Is there even a point for Democrats to show up for this rigged farce of a vote? Seems to me the perfect off-ramp.
All of them should take a hike. They now have a reason related to their safety.
Well since they’re going to ram this through no matter what, only thing to do is to fully exploit the optics for the campaign.
And since Covid19 is playing to Biden, play up the contamination - D Senators in N95s and Face Shields - full up. Point out non-respect of CDC - point out foolish risk to others.
And the Rs, well… they’ll be idiots and spread contamination.
I keep getting haunted by the fact that there are people plotting right now to expose Biden to the corona virus. Call me paranoid, but I believe that 30% of the GOP has reached the stage of tribal warfare where they think that would be a perfectly fine thing to do.
It’s all about the base now. They will need a reliable third of the country and shock troops for what they want to do next.
Oh, yeah, and some of them are clearly nihilists: they would just like to burn it all down.
Shumer really could make a better jab here, and call him Pandemic Pence or something.
Democrat should hold a press conference in a separate facility concurrent with the vote, blasting Meadows, Pence, and the Republican response to the Coronavirus that has rendered a confirmation vote for SCOTUS unsafe.
Chuck, you really don’t have to show, you know. From a purely political standpoint, think what a picture that would make. I can hear the story now.
"Tonight, not only did a single Democratic senator vote to create Justice Amy Barrett, they didn’t vote no’ either. They refused to even show up.
“It took some bending of the rules for Senator Mitch McConnell and the Republicans but they finally got the Supreme Court they wanted.”
It’s not petulance. The GOP Coc…er…Republicans are looking at a huge Pyrrhic victory here. If the Democrats can stay enraged, it would lay the groundwork for legislation to enlarge the court and eliminate the filibuster.
Patient IQ Zero
Vice President Vector
You’re not paranoid. Trump most likely had Covid during the first debate and cavalierly put Biden (and Wallace) at risk, and without their knowledge.
No Democrats there. The GOP has broken every protocol imaginable. Let 'em have their Way and then let’s vote 'em OUT.
I think senate rules of decorum prohibit it.
The GOP is a criminal organization in the sense that it looks for ways to break norms and laws.
Vice Pestilence
This whole administration’s behavior (and that of the larger GOP as well) re both their zeal in ramming through Barrett’s confirmation and their disregard of COVID reminds me of a certain bus line in Mexico. Back when I lived there, the bus line’s safety record was so bad that people “joked” that its motto was, “Better dead than late.”
Schumer, if you must show up, carry a couple of these handheld fans to aim at every Republican-
eta: Imagine if every Democrat walked in like this
In retrospect all the bellowing and yelling the entire time seems to be an attempt to spread it to someone.