Gorsuch to be on the Supreme Court by midnight Friday
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McConnell can DIAFF. I don't think anyone on either side would miss him.AZDuck said:
Both sides have been acting like children since at least 2013. No real surprise we've ended up where we are.
Not sure how I feel about the death of the filibuster anyway. Seems like axing our senators to make 15 1/2 hour speeches to drag things out just wastes everyone's damn time.
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But stilllllllllll!!!!!!!GrundleStiltzkin said:
Huh?Intersectional_Dawg said:The court was broken even before the Republicans broke precedent and didn't give Garland a hearing.
It's time for direct, non-partisan elections to the bench.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/02/16/chuck-schumer-supreme-court-nomination-president-sot-erin.cnn/video/playlists/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dead/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/22/in-1992-joe-biden-called-for-an-election-year-blockade-of-supreme-court-nominations/?utm_term=.d4eec9a21368 -
He wan't supposed to win the election either.dhdawg said:
the democrats could also take back the senate in 2018 even with the map as it is.allpurpleallgold said:
This a great point. I think both sides are gambling on this. If she goes the year before the next presidential election the democrats would have actually been in a great position with the filibuster and it would have been a really bad look right before an election for republicans to get rid of it then. Maybe they are playing chess.greenblood said:Enticing the GOP to go nuclear just gave the GOP a "golden ticket" for the next nominee. It seems like the democrats are hedging their bet that Ginsburg is alive in 3 1/2 years. Considering she's 84, I'm thinking the law of averages will probably hit her sooner than that. The GOP in essence will control the supreme court for the next 20 years.
trump's 35% approval is not going up anytime soon
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you do realize the democrats had 100 lower level court picks filibustered in 4 years when they did that.RaceBannon said:
Yes, 100. More than half of the total number in history
First guy selected by GOP, nuke it.
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this is a retarded move by the GOP.
Pull him, put up another insanely far right judge and the democrats cower for sure.
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I'm embarrassed to ask this but, what does an approval rating mean? Is it just a popularity vote? What would a 10% approval rating mean, the president is getting fired? Does it mean anything at all?dhdawg said:
the democrats could also take back the senate in 2018 even with the map as it is.allpurpleallgold said:
This a great point. I think both sides are gambling on this. If she goes the year before the next presidential election the democrats would have actually been in a great position with the filibuster and it would have been a really bad look right before an election for republicans to get rid of it then. Maybe they are playing chess.greenblood said:Enticing the GOP to go nuclear just gave the GOP a "golden ticket" for the next nominee. It seems like the democrats are hedging their bet that Ginsburg is alive in 3 1/2 years. Considering she's 84, I'm thinking the law of averages will probably hit her sooner than that. The GOP in essence will control the supreme court for the next 20 years.
trump's 35% approval is not going up anytime soon -
It means that liberals actually won and Hillary is presidentphineas said:
I'm embarrassed to ask this but, what does an approval rating mean? Is it just a popularity vote? What would a 10% approval rating mean, the president is getting fired? Does it mean anything at all?dhdawg said:
the democrats could also take back the senate in 2018 even with the map as it is.allpurpleallgold said:
This a great point. I think both sides are gambling on this. If she goes the year before the next presidential election the democrats would have actually been in a great position with the filibuster and it would have been a really bad look right before an election for republicans to get rid of it then. Maybe they are playing chess.greenblood said:Enticing the GOP to go nuclear just gave the GOP a "golden ticket" for the next nominee. It seems like the democrats are hedging their bet that Ginsburg is alive in 3 1/2 years. Considering she's 84, I'm thinking the law of averages will probably hit her sooner than that. The GOP in essence will control the supreme court for the next 20 years.
trump's 35% approval is not going up anytime soon
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So basically since the popular thing is to hate trump his approval rating is going to stay low on principal. So it means nothing
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It means the president isn't governing for the people.phineas said:
I'm embarrassed to ask this but, what does an approval rating mean? Is it just a popularity vote? What would a 10% approval rating mean, the president is getting fired? Does it mean anything at all?dhdawg said:
the democrats could also take back the senate in 2018 even with the map as it is.allpurpleallgold said:
This a great point. I think both sides are gambling on this. If she goes the year before the next presidential election the democrats would have actually been in a great position with the filibuster and it would have been a really bad look right before an election for republicans to get rid of it then. Maybe they are playing chess.greenblood said:Enticing the GOP to go nuclear just gave the GOP a "golden ticket" for the next nominee. It seems like the democrats are hedging their bet that Ginsburg is alive in 3 1/2 years. Considering she's 84, I'm thinking the law of averages will probably hit her sooner than that. The GOP in essence will control the supreme court for the next 20 years.
trump's 35% approval is not going up anytime soon
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They changed the rule in 2003 to block Bush judges but stilldhdawg said:
you do realize the democrats had 100 lower level court picks filibustered in 4 years when they did that.RaceBannon said:
Yes, 100. More than half of the total number in history
First guy selected by GOP, nuke it.
Great false equivalency as always
This is what happens when you run in the house with scissors. Someone loses an eye. -
Agree. The Democrats deserved this and Gorsuch belongs on the Supreme Court.RaceBannon said:
They changed the rule in 2003 to block Bush judges but stilldhdawg said:
you do realize the democrats had 100 lower level court picks filibustered in 4 years when they did that.RaceBannon said:
Yes, 100. More than half of the total number in history
First guy selected by GOP, nuke it.
Great false equivalency as always
This is what happens when you run in the house with scissors. Someone loses an eye. -
I hate up voting Sven but he's right.TierbsHsotBoobs said:
Agree. The Democrats deserved this and Gorsuch belongs on the Supreme Court.RaceBannon said:
They changed the rule in 2003 to block Bush judges but stilldhdawg said:
you do realize the democrats had 100 lower level court picks filibustered in 4 years when they did that.RaceBannon said:
Yes, 100. More than half of the total number in history
First guy selected by GOP, nuke it.
Great false equivalency as always
This is what happens when you run in the house with scissors. Someone loses an eye.
