The biggest story in Kentucky politics this week is an unconfirmed “deal” between President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over a soon-to-be vacant seat on the federal bench.
unconfirmed “deal”
Says everything you need to know.
Confirm it, then I’ll comment. I do not subscribe to TMP for strictly hearsay.
Without even reading the details, the answer is “because he’s in good company with DiFi”.
I can say this as someone well over 50, never vote for anyone over 50. He thinks Republicans are the people he knew 40 years ago. 40 years ago they actually acted honorably. Occasionally. Those days are long past.
Call me when it’s the “real deal.” (1-800-BiteMe)
I’m going to wait until it’s confirmed. Trashing Biden just helps even MORE extremists get into our government.
I might be out of line here, but don’t Democrats have enough actual issues to deal with? This is a rumor.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me a thousand times, you’re McConnell. Hoping Biden has more sense than to trust a deal with this power-hungry monster.
Moscow Mitch McConnell has been a Senator since 1985, so I disagree that this is not the same Republican Party we have known for the last 40 years.
The problem is it is also the same Democrat Party we have known for the last 40 years.
It would be really easy to issue a statement saying this isn’t happening. Why hasn’t the Biden team denied something that is flatly untrue?
Why no denial on the record?
When you refuse to state something is a lie on the record, we all know what that means.
Sounds to me like McConnell is getting ready to retire. He got the KY lege to pass a law specifying that his replacement will be a Republican chosen by the state party. Now he’s trying to move his proteges into positions of power so they can’t be sidelined later. It’s not enough that he’s poisoned the well for many decades; he wants to cement his toxic legacy so all our grandchildren can continue to enjoy his handiwork. 
I thought his had been debunked… you mean it’s for real?
When did they ask? 1 min before pushing this out? This is click bate.
This seems to be speculative at this point, and there may be more to it, or less. But if true, the potential harm that a new Federalist judge could do is one thing and ought to be enough to warn Biden off this “deal” but the real damage could come in November, when Biden’s turnout could be depressed by this “deal” as his voters will be too discouraged to show up.
Let’s hope this “deal” was some sort of ill-conceived plan by McConnell and not a reality, or at minimum, that if such a “deal” was every in the works, it’s been dropped now. OR, let’s hope that there’s information that we’re lacking at this point that would make sense of it.
It’s been in the news cycle for how many days now? 3?
And you’re telling me if this was a totally unfounded rumor, they can’t get a forceful denial out?
How much more clear of a response from the administration do you need?
the Courier-Journal reported Friday that the White House has repeatedly declined questions about the story – saying only, “we do not comment on vacancies.”
How naive are you? Jesus christ on a cracker.
It’s McConnell, whatever deal he intends to offer, he will break it at the earliest, most convenient opportunity. Do not trust.
I searched best I can find is one day.
Depends on the deal, always. What if McTurtle is open to considering the Garland snub an abdication of Congressional duty, and the 3 justices connected with that fiasco as therefore void and impeachable? Or expanding the current court to 13 justices with term limits? Or either of these, effective immediately, in exchange for a pro-abortion Kentucky judge? I’d take that deal, wouldn’t you?
The so-called deal, news of which broke two days ago but which the White House has not confirmed, would have Biden appointing a Republican anti-abortion lawyer who is a member of the Federalist Society to the federal bench in return for McConnell easing the way for other Biden judicial nominees.
Sometimes Dems can fall for BS. Especially, if Rethugs think they’ve hit their soft underbelly. Biden and the WH know this would be a sh*tty deal even if it were true. What would be the gain?
The Courier-Journal reported Thursday, citing Yarmuth, that “the presumption is that with Meredith’s nomination, McConnell would agree not to hold up future federal nominations from the Biden White House.”
Biden has been in Federal government for over 30 years. If POTUS had not experience with the Rethugs, I’d be just as livid. But, fact is, he does have experience and Biden knows that McC. specifically can’t be trusted at this word. He lived through 8 years of seeing Pres. Obama shafted time and again.
This is STILL debunked.
Yes, I too hope that’s the right take on this. But I hope many people will write to Biden, asking him to confirm that this deal is NOT a reality and he will never nominate a Federalist Society judge. Or, alternatively, I hope an announcement will soon be made about the sane judge that he has nominated.
It occurs to me that this may be some sort of strategy cooked up by McConnell to create disarray among Democrats and distract from the January 6th hearings. Even if it was not a deliberate strategy, that’s what it appears to be doing. 