There was an analyst on Maddow last night who described Kennedy's opinion on the Muslim ban ruling as 'tortured,' and he voted consistently against the liberal bloc this year. I honestly think he looked ahead, saw years of total combat and feeling like he should vote what he thinks is the law one way, and his conscience another, and just quit. He never liked being the swing vote, and he didn't want to go down in history as a secret liberal.
What REALLY sucks is Trump is saying they'll have a candidate 'immediately' and McConnell says they will vote on it.
Senator Mitch McConnell quickly promised on Wednesday a Senate vote on a new Supreme Court nominee by the fall, and Democrats will have little power to prevent confirmation of President Trump’s choice on their own.
“The Senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on President Trump’s nominee to fill this vacancy,” Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. “We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall.”
That makes me so angry and hopeless it feels like I'm going nuts.
Even worse, I read an article which quoted some Joe McCarthy Blow from a conservative think tank or something and he was all, "Well this is what the people who hated voting for Trump but did it voted for. They wanted the judiciary. It's going to energize them for the midterms because nothing unites the Republicans like the judiciary." And I'm just like, we're all fucked, because that's completely true; I think it was Boehner (not sure) who said "Hold your nose and think of the Supreme Court." They've apparently just gone insane at the rights given to people who aren't straight cis white men since the 1960s, IDEFK, and want to undo them all, completely. It's like having a black man be President -- a GOOD President despite their complete unwillingness to help or even work with him -- drove them out of their horrible little minds.
That kind of White Rage is animating some of these people. Dammit.
For all his flaws, Obama would still make a good Prime Minister if he ever moved up here to Canada and made a go of it. Most of us, I suspect, would be glad to have him.
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What REALLY sucks is Trump is saying they'll have a candidate 'immediately' and McConnell says they will vote on it.
Senator Mitch McConnell quickly promised on Wednesday a Senate vote on a new Supreme Court nominee by the fall, and Democrats will have little power to prevent confirmation of President Trump’s choice on their own.
“The Senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on President Trump’s nominee to fill this vacancy,” Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, said after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. “We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall.”
That makes me so angry and hopeless it feels like I'm going nuts.
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Being an open liberal would have been better.
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For all his flaws, Obama would still make a good Prime Minister if he ever moved up here to Canada and made a go of it. Most of us, I suspect, would be glad to have him.