Refusing to play along with Republicans’ rushed confirmation hearings, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) spent his half hour Tuesday largely ignoring Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett in favor of ripping down the curtain on the influences behind her nomination.
Sheldon Whitehouse…My Hero.
Thank you sir for exposing this sham-rama-lama-ding-dong nominating process.
Also, it’s fine to ignore the nominee. No one cares about the nominee, except as a reliable placeholder for certain results. And she could say or do pretty much anything without changing republican senators’ votes.
This is what the Dems should be doing, along with pointing out that all repubs are clearly supporting a wanna-be dictator, who tells the House that they need to go through the courts to take action overseeing/impeaching the Executive, while simultaneously telling the courts that only the Congress has oversight capability of the Executive. All the while, firing IG’s and replacing them with toadies.
A dictator.
More, Senator Whitehouse!
Whatever result you want talk to her husband. To be fair, if you want results from Clarence Thomas, talk to his reactionary activist wife first. So we have one handmaiden but we also have a henpecked husband.
YES…yes…yes…yes…
Why question Amy Covid Barrett?
Use the forum to expose reality…to shed light in the dark spaces created by the republicans!!
BRAVO Senator.
“Rama lama ding dong”
Recorded by Rocky Sharp and the Replays
Lyrics by George Jones.
I wish that were a testable proposition!
(You do too, I bet.)
Why is this such a rarity?
Not in my brain.
This is why I’ve never voted for DiFi; I don’t think she’s ever come close to doing what Whitehouse just did!
Didn’t watch, saw this article. He is brilliant. Forget back and forth with the defendant, sorry mean nominee. Tell it like it is.
Wow. Brilliant.
Well, she is old school. Don’t know when she’s up for reelection but I’m hoping someone way more progressive gets in that seat when she does step down. She’s like my old school Senator Carl Levin. He was great on so many issues but would never give into a change of old school politics even if it had fallen by the wayside and was unrecognizable and unretrievable today.
Whitehouse is a very competent and serious fellow. Most can see that in his interviews. I am extremely gratified that he is doing this.
And for a person like Barrett to be handled this way is to, in effect, do the same as telling a victorious general at the end of the battle that the script was pre-arranged and he was only plugged in in order to accept the surrender.
And, to add insult to injury, the general, post-battle, is peppered with questions, revealing that he is an empty suit.
Or an “athlete” that they won their contest because all the refs had been bribed beforehand.
Republicans have made a mockery of the courts with their corruption.
Love my Sheldon. You should hear him speak on Climate Change and Ocean Policy. I very happy with him in the Senate but he might make a good AG…
And…Oh…By the way
(from the article):
[He rounded out his presentation by highlighting the track record of wins in cases with such characteristic conservative donor interest: 80 to 0, with a bare five-to-four partisan majority.
“Something is not right around the court,” he intoned. “And dark money has a lot to do with it. Special interests have a lot to do with it.”
His presentation today, Whitehouse concluded, turning back to Barrett (my emphasis added 
), lays out the basis “for you and I to tee up an interesting conversation tomorrow.”]