Minds / lost
Minds / lost
Isn't this what you complain about ?
Sen Gillibrand uses even the same verbs you use when talking about oh say Steve Bannon being disinvited from a forum sponsored by The New Yorker
Except The New Yorker event was a meet and greet gabfest and this is a rape accusation (sans investigation) with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court in the balance
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
If they think about this carefully, the GOP senators would realize they are risking a lot by rushing this through without asking the FBI to investigate. They have time to fill this Supreme Court vacancy before the new Congress is sworn in. I believe the other finalists have already had their background checks done, which should help save time on the process.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
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Mazie Hirono tells ABC that Chuck Grassley's
claim that Republicans have done everything they can
to contact Dr. Ford "is such bull**** I can hardly stand it."
The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to make sure he doesn’t get a gun.
I agree that there has been back-and-forth escalation around the federal judiciary, but my point was that opposing a candidate with massive disqualifying red flags (Bork, Thomas) does not fall into that category.
And, yes, I’m comfortable saying that the Scalia-Thomas-Alito axis and their successors are further to the right than Soto-Kagan-RGB-Breyer. It’s not global, but Sotomayor and RGB have solidly liberal records, Breyer and Kagan center-left, Roberts center-right, Alito solidly right, Scalia (and his successor) significantly further to the right, and Thomas further still. Kavanaugh would slot in somewhere between Alito and Thomas/Gorsuch, based on his record. Multiple analyses have been done on this, Google them as you will.
As for the bolded section, I’m talking about, in most of these cases, concrete actions that have been taken to undermine the democratic process. You’re talking about political tactics that you don’t like. Like, to crib from my man sturg, I’m talking data and you’re talking emotion. Nebulous cries of “identity politics” mean what, exactky, compared to federal court cases identifying states who tried to make it harder for people to vote, on the basis of race? Let’s just stipulate that you’re right on one point, and say that “open borders” policies are a means to “import” voters. Now, first we have to acknowledge that were using politically charged language which in and of itself assume certain conclusions. Next, it’s worth pointing out that some of the biggest proponents of so-called “open borders” are the Chamber of Commerce Republican types. Finally, my question is that if people achieve citizenship, why should they not be allowed and encouraged to vote? I want everybody who is eligible to vote to do so. Don’t you? Do you think that reflects the current culture of the Republican party?
Basically, I’m giving you concrete examples about how one party (the one that’s lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections) is trying to consolidate minority rule, and you’re responding with stuff you don’t like about political discourse.
Wow at Ed Whelan's twitter. WTF is he thinking? He better have Garrett ready to state that he's the one who committed the assault. If not then wow.
thank you weso1!
While Ford's lawyer is fundraising for Democrats, Ford insists of no questions from lawyers, only senators, and Kauvanaugh can't be there and must go first.
Gosh. Lots going on here
Maybe you should be more specific. Ford’s lawyers, who held a fundraising event for Tammy Baldwin in her last campaign, were holding another event this year, which was scheduled before they represented Ford. Shocking.
As for the rest, is it similarly shocking that lawyers are (gasp) trying to negotiate favorable circumstances for their client? In other words, being lawyers?
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Hugh Hewitt 2/16 on Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland: “Republicans are under no obligation to hold a hearing much less a vote”
Hewitt 9/18 decrying allegations against Kavanaugh: “Seriously, due process is a real concept, deeply embedded in Anglo-American law and politics”
pointing out the blatant hypocrisy is old and tired but goddamn it never ends.
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
“I can’t fix my life, but I can fix the world.” - sturg
The three main tenets of the Democrat's immigration policy are oppose additional border security, sanctuary cities, and amnesty with a path to citizenship. Now it looks like they are going to follow Ocasio-Cortez down the rabbit hole of pushing for the abolishment of ICE. Neither of us is naive enough to think that is only because of the goodness in their hearts. Sanctuary city laws exist, meeting your bar of "concrete actions." As a party, the Democrats have taken the "concrete action" of opposing and sinking any immigration reform legislation that either includes additional physical barriers or does not include amnesty. Again, this is an action taken to achieve a desired result of changing the electorate, which will, in your words, "undermine the democratic process."
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Naturalization and citizenship are two separate things.