[N_Fiddledog]

Oh well at least we don't have to worry about McCain sabotaging the vote this time.

Or his replacement apparently...

$1:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The late U.S. Senator John McCain’s seat was filled on Wednesday when Jon Kyl, a former senator, took the oath of office in time to help Republicans in their push to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kyl, 76, was sworn in as the new senator from the southwestern state of Arizona in a brief ceremony on the Senate floor. Vice President Mike Pence, who also serves as president of the Senate, administered the oath.

In replacing McCain, a maverick who at times went against his party, Kyl is expected to bring a somewhat more conservative political viewpoint to the Senate, which is controlled by Republicans. They hold 51 seats with 47 Democrats and two independents who align with Democrats – unchanged from when McCain held the seat.

A full Senate vote on Kavanaugh could come later this month. Kyl likely will give Republicans a little more of a cushion in what is expected to be a close vote, given Democratic opposition.

http://www.oann.com/jon-kyl-sworn-in-as ... ng-mccain/

[BartSimpson]

xerxes xerxes:

Know who else had an exemplary career as a jurist? Merrick Fucking Garland. He never even got a hearing because of the GOP and now they’re crying because the Democrats are saying mean things about Kavanaugh? They can go to hell.

The difference is that two years ago the GOP were the majority party and they had every right to stop the Garland nomination because they had the votes.

And now the GOP is still the majority party and they have every right to move forward with the Kavanaugh nomination because they have the votes.

The Democrats can say whatever they want, the nomination will still move to the floor for a vote.

[N_Fiddledog]

As always Ted tells it like it is:

[BartSimpson]

Ted Cruz is the best American we ever got from Canada!

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Ted Cruz is the best American we ever got from Canada!

But his dad shot JFK, according to your current president.

Anyhoo, this one's been a real pip. Good to see all the constitutionalists, who claim to know the exact thoughts of the original signatories to America's founding documents, clamouring to endorse a justice who believes that a sitting president is entitled to the same hands-off from the law that a king or czar has. This ought to be hilarious as time passes by, watching corrupt Trump-grade poison become the lifeblood of the American system, all with the full endorsement of the highest court in the land. Good times ahead, fam, at least for those completely lacking in any sort of ethics, morals, decency, or conscience. Zero-sum game and victory, bay-bay! Hoorah!

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Anyhoo, this one's been a real pip. Good to see all the constitutionalists, who claim to know the exact thoughts of the original signatories to America's founding documents, clamouring to endorse a justice who believes that a sitting president is entitled to the same hands-off from the law that a king or czar has. This ought to be hilarious as time passes by, watching corrupt Trump-grade poison become the lifeblood of the American system, all with the full endorsement of the highest court in the land. Good times ahead, fam, at least for those completely lacking in any sort of ethics, morals, decency, or conscience. Zero-sum game and victory, bay-bay! Hoorah!

You just love working yourself up into a frenzied outrage, don't you?

Before you get too upset know that this topic came up before. You might want to read up on it from 1997 when a different President was faced with a special prosecutor.

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/ ... ext=facpub

[Thanos]

I'm actually in an OK mood, so I'd like it if you'd stop with that nonsensical taunt.

My general emotion towards your Dear Leader & his co-conspirators (including Brett Kavanuagh) is usually depression. And that's entirely rational as one has to watch the last best hope of mankind become just another playground of despots. I'm sure that your constitutional "experts", from Ted Cruz to Kavanaugh to the next Robert Bork, are all busy at work right now on the next victory for "conservatism". Maybe a precise line-by-line reading of the Bill of Rights will surprisingly (gasp!) reveal that the constitution really doesn't actually guarantee a right to vote, at least not for those that "we" don't like.

Enjoy the next twenty years of the Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh axis legalizing the stomping down of anyone you guys don't like, which has always been the entire point of these kind of far right-wing extremist appointments since Nixon put Lewis Powell on the SCOTUS. Great days, great days ahead. Be sure to have you stock broker put a ton of your money on metal coat-hanger futures because their shares are about ready to go through the roof, bunky.

[BartSimpson]

I am indeed looking forward to great days ahead!

The unions are declining in power. The Democrats are therefore losing a HUGE chunk of their funding (+$300m a year in California alone). We're going to have a solid conservative on the Court to replace Kennedy. We'll likely get another conservative just as soon as Ginsburg dies. The Republicans are starting to look like they'll be gaining seats in Congress in the fall. The Democrats are being taken over by the batshit-crazy and openly socialist/communist wing of the left. The GOP is now the party of working class America. The economy is better than any of the doomsayers ever thought it would be. The military is being rebuilt. Illegal immigration is down. Gun rights are spreading all over the place. Voter ID is happening over the protests of the left.

Anything I miss here?

America is looking a shitload better than it did 24 months ago. And I am absolutely looking forward to Great Days Ahead!

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

America is looking a shitload better than it did 24 months ago. And I am absolutely looking forward to Great Days Ahead!

That's the same positive outlook the Jim Jones and David Koresh followers also had. wheeeee!

[rickc]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I am indeed looking forward to great days ahead!

The unions are declining in power. The Democrats are therefore losing a HUGE chunk of their funding (+$300m a year in California alone). We're going to have a solid conservative on the Court to replace Kennedy. We'll likely get another conservative just as soon as Ginsburg dies. The Republicans are starting to look like they'll be gaining seats in Congress in the fall. The Democrats are being taken over by the batshit-crazy and openly socialist/communist wing of the left. The GOP is now the party of working class America. The economy is better than any of the doomsayers ever thought it would be. The military is being rebuilt. Illegal immigration is down. Gun rights are spreading all over the place. Voter ID is happening over the protests of the left.

Anything I miss here?

America is looking a shitload better than it did 24 months ago. And I am absolutely looking forward to Great Days Ahead!

I am curious as to why you are celebrating the decline of labor unions? I get that you do not like the unions funneling money to the Democratic party, but wouldn't some legislation restricting unions giving money to political parties be better than the actual decline of the unions who have done so much for the working men/women of America?

[martin14]

rickc rickc:

I get that you do not like the unions funneling money to the Democratic party,

Isn't that enough ?

At least in Canada most unions support the NDP, so the money
is simply thrown down the drain.

The Democrats do damage in the USA.

[llama66]

$1:

But his dad shot JFK, according to your current president.

I thought Woody Harrelson's dad shot Kennedy

[BartSimpson]

rickc rickc:

I am curious as to why you are celebrating the decline of labor unions? I get that you do not like the unions funneling money to the Democratic party, but wouldn't some legislation restricting unions giving money to political parties be better than the actual decline of the unions who have done so much for the working men/women of America?

The unions in the USA no longer worry themselves about what should be their core mission of wages, benefits, and working conditions.

For far too long they've only been about vacuuming up funds for leftist causes like open borders, preventing any meaningful efforts to stop vote fraud, global warming, saving the whales (I am not kidding), gun control, rent control, pushing socialism, ending free speech, and etc.

Further, they've repeatedly schemed and colluded with Democrats to force people into paying dues to the unions without getting any benefit from those dues as we saw across the country when SEIU went after low-income home health assistance (who are usually family members).

https://homehealthcarenews.com/2018/07/ ... -of-janus/

Let them get back to their core mission and I'll support them again. But for right now they don't give a shit about workers who need help at labor hearings and even the shop steward at my office has now quit SEIU over their absence at 100% of our labor hearings in the past six years.

Once we get enough people to quit SEIU we plan on voting to decertify the fuckers and then either bring back the CSEA who used to represent us or else start our own union.

But I am elated to see the existing union bosses getting their fat asses kicked to the curb!

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

I'm actually in an OK mood, so I'd like it if you'd stop with that nonsensical taunt.

My general emotion towards your Dear Leader & his co-conspirators (including Brett Kavanuagh) is usually depression. And that's entirely rational as one has to watch the last best hope of mankind become just another playground of despots. I'm sure that your constitutional "experts", from Ted Cruz to Kavanaugh to the next Robert Bork, are all busy at work right now on the next victory for "conservatism". Maybe a precise line-by-line reading of the Bill of Rights will surprisingly (gasp!) reveal that the constitution really doesn't actually guarantee a right to vote, at least not for those that "we" don't like.

Enjoy the next twenty years of the Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh axis legalizing the stomping down of anyone you guys don't like, which has always been the entire point of these kind of far right-wing extremist appointments since Nixon put Lewis Powell on the SCOTUS. Great days, great days ahead. Be sure to have you stock broker put a ton of your money on metal coat-hanger futures because their shares are about ready to go through the roof, bunky.

Have you been fitted for your 'Handmaid's Tale' gear yet?

[CharlesAnthony]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Screaming and Whining Aren't Actually Strategies

Wrong. Screaming and whining distracts the public's attention away from more important things --- for instance: world war.

They are all in on it. The article you posted overtly tells us that it is all kabuki theater.