Trump, for one.
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No one believes that more than Trump who goes on and on about how he’d have won it without millions of illegal votes.
Hi. I would have appreciated it if you had spelled out what SES means in your post as it is not clear. It may be obvious to you and some other posters but it is not to me.
I’m sure it will seem obvious to me after I learn it but I think most folks would agree that reducing the occurrence of not-commonly-known acronyms on the SDMB helps the fight against ignorance.
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Well, Trump appears slightly nutty, doesn’t he?
Do you forget that the Republicans prevented a vote on Obama’s nominated justice? The court has been illegitimate ever since then.
Based on the comment he was responding to: socio-economic status.
In 2014, I asked you about predictions you had offered up that were similarly optimistic, but very wrong:
You replied:
In 2016, also, your prediction was wrong.
But again you’re offering up confident predictions.
So my question to you now is: is there any number of successive incorrect predictions that will cause you to stop offering predictions on the grounds that perhaps you’re not as strong a seer as one might expect from your confident tone?
No, it hasn’t.
Is there any other democratic country where the politicians choose the judges?
This looks to me like a flaw in the US constitution.
Your honor, I do so regret this sudden reversal of events, especially since the defendant was found with the victim’s blood on the hedge trimmer he was swinging around, whilst singing “Ding, dong, the witch is dead”.
But the defendant has invoked the potent legal phrase “Nuh-uhhhh”, therefore exonerating himself of any further culpability for anything he has ever said or done.
I therefore recommend that everyone in the courtroom retire to their nearest pub for a pint of “WTF?”
He’s got you there, hoss! That tone! Take a lesson from the Board’s foremost paragon of modesty and decorum.
Maybe not illegitimate, but it’s certainly hypocritical of the Republicans to try to force this pick through prior to the midterms, when they drug ass to keep the then-PotUS from doing his job of appointing a replacement for Scalia until after the election. That’s dirty pool, and McConnell et al have no room to bitch if the confirmation doesn’t happen before the midterm elections.
That said, I read an op/ed recently that suggested that, due to changing demographic makeups (including ethnic diversity and population growth), once the Democrats have control of the Senate, House, and Oval Office, they should propose adding additional judges to create a supermajority.
I can see the appeal of that. I also see how that has the potential to backfire drastically.
Yeah. So what would stop the Republicans from doing that right now?
One obvious reason that they don’t do it NOW is that they can’t be 100% sure that the midterms will play out. It could backfire if they passed the resolution, only to have the Democrats win the majorities, and be able to seat the liberal justices that the Republicans are hoping to avoid.
Also, it’s a total dick move. And, while the Republicans are no strangers to dick moves, I think that there are enough voters who lean right but aren’t Trump supporters who could potentially see this as a little too far as an overreach. The optics don’t look good, and some of the non-fringe party members might think it goes too far. It’s not, for lack of a better term, “fair & balanced.”
A lot of liberals on this site excoriate the Republicans for any move they make, thinking that they’re nothing but evil. Maybe I’m too idealistic, but I think that there are plenty of rightwingers who still have a sense of decorum, and know that Spiderman comics were correct in saying that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. They realize exactly how easy it would be for their own leaders to destroy the America that they personally are wanting to hold onto.
Does that make sense? It did in my head.
“Power corrupts,” was Lord Acton.
Spider-Man’s motto is, “With great power comes great responsibility.”
I think the right wing’s motto is, “It’s good to be the king.”
Thanks for the correction. I knew looking at it that the exact words didn’t feel 100% accurate, but Nyquil was involved, so I’m not surprised that I couldn’t stick the landing, so to speak.
Superdude,
The “Biden Rule” was always about presidential election years, not midterm election years. In fact, as recently as 2010, the Senate voted to confirm Justice Elena Kagan in a midterm election year. Was that a di@k move too?
I think we are going to see Democrats giving the public a lot of double standards and false narratives.
As for the optics not looking good, just wait until the public leaned how Dem’s weaponized the FBI, and that Muller has nothing at all on Trump.
Also, if you can gain the upper hand with things as they are – and they have, smashingly – why change them and take a chance on a backfire. Besides you still have a nontrivial number of actually conservative conservatives around, plus a significant number of plain old reactionaries, who want to roll things back, not to add new complications.
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