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Republican Senators Trivialize Crimes against Children
This is what the RepubliCAN’T leadership of Mendacious Mitch McConnell has always been, is now, and will be if we let him and his gang control the Republican Party in the Senate. Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Supreme Court nominee with a long history of supporting the latest supposedly victimized, misunderstood sexual minority, proudly promoted her record as one of progressive enlightenment. AND. Mittens Romney defended her and proudly voted for her confirmation, alongside Mitch’s Alaskan agent, Lisa Murkowski, and the Arlen Specter splinter faction member, Susan Collins. They did so with the full permission of Mendacious Mitch, and with the cover distraction of posturing conservatives like Senators Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, and Ted Cruz.
There were at least three currently active leftist judges matching the Biden regime’s additional screening criteria: African American AND Woman. Never mind the trans-agenda “problematization” of “Woman.” The left understands that the real agenda is to negate Justice Clarence Thomas, providing a counter-narrative to each opinion he writes defending religious liberty or distinguishing blacks’ real civil rights struggle from the social-sexual revolution of the alphabet alliance, started by Hugh Hefner. So, the official story was that three women were interviewed for the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy caused by Stephen Breyer’s pending retirement at the end of this Supreme Court term in June.
. . . D.C. Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, and South Carolina District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs. …
Ketanji Brown Jackson
The 51-year-old judge has been rumored to be the President’s top choice since she was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last year.
Having served as a D.C. district judge since 2013, Jackson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the Circuit Court in June 2021 by a vote of 53-44, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voting in her favor. …
From 2007 to 2013, [Leondra] Kruger served as an assistant to the United States solicitor general and the acting principal deputy solicitor general, arguing 12 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including a high-profile religious rights case in which the court ruled against the Obama Administration. Kruger then joined the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where she helped strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, which banned same-sex marriage, and uphold the Affordable Care Act.
In 2014, California Gov. Jerry Brown named Kruger to the California Supreme Court when she was 38 years old. In her seven years on the bench, Kruger has developed a reputation as an attentive incrementalist, telling the Los Angeles Times in 2018 that she strives to perform her job in a way that “enhances the predictability and stability of the law and public confidence and trust in the work of the courts.” …
Judge J. Michelle Childs, who serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, has powerful allies within the Beltway.
South Carolina Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn has been openly campaigning for Childs’ nomination, telling Axios that he’s been advocating for Childs to the White House for the past six months—long before Breyer’s retirement was even announced. Childs, 55, also has earned plaudits from South Carolina Republican Sen. Graham, who sits on the Judiciary Committee. Graham told reporters on Feb. 2 that Childs is “somebody I could see myself supporting.” He warned that if Biden’s pick isn’t Childs, it could be “much more problematic.”
A senior statesman of the civil rights movement actively promoted a candidate for nomination, and her name was Childs, not Jackson. This candidate already had one senior Republican on board, so was sure to get “bi-partisan” confirmation. Rep. Clyburn delivered the southern states’ Democratic Party primary elections to Biden when he was feeling the Bern. Childs would seem to have been the best choice. Instead, the regime nominated a woman who spent her entire legal career, starting in law school, promoted leniency for a class of sex offenders against children. There could hardly be a more in-your-face nominee for lifetime tenure on the highest court in our land.
The Republicans, supposedly led by Mitch McConnell, were handed a golden opportunity to show they really stood for something about which ordinary Americans of every region and demographic care. They knew there was a massive popular movement against the radical sexualization of children by school officials. McConnell had a clear opportunity to score a win, forcing the Biden regime to withdraw a sexual politics radical candidate, replacing her with the preferred candidate of black leaders in Congress. Instead, Mendacious Mitch signaled surrender from the very beginning.
Faced with this planned failure of leadership, younger conservative Senators had the choice of mere rhetorical posturing or leading up. Hawley, Cruz, and Blackburn could have gone to the Senate floor and called out any senator who dared support Judge Jackson for normalizing her radical views on a class of sex crimes against children. In 1987, Judge Douglas Ginsburg, no relation to RBG, was forced to withdraw from nomination to the Supreme Court over personal marijuana use and reports that his wife, as a medical student, had participated in performing two abortions. Ketanji Brown Jackson’s career-long pattern of support for a class of offenders against children would seem to be the easiest possible case for forcing a nomination withdrawal or open defeat, as every Democratic senator facing the voters this year could foresee the political hit pieces running in the general election. It would have been an easily understood case for changing nominees.
Instead, Hawley and Blackburn settled for fundraising video clips and Cruz monetized his fake opposition with his podcast side hustle. The fake fight and the preemptive surrender on the Supreme Court nomination campaign reminds us of the disgraceful conduct of Republican congressional majorities after passage of Obamacare, and their long sabotage of our national sovereignty through perennial subversion of effective immigration control. McConnell even used the planned surrender on Judge Jackson’s nomination to promote his own return to power, claiming court nominees would be less radical if voters would just return Republicans to the Senate majority.
Yet, how radical could Jackson be if three Republican senators in good standing with McConnell voted to confirm her, with not a word from McConnell against Murkowski, Romney, or Collins? Why won’t they do the same again with every Democrat regime nominee, even if voters give Republicans a three-seat majority? So, we know that there will be no real opposition, no consequential legislative victories against the regime, if we allow the current crew of incumbent “leadership” to keep power through their preferred candidates in the primaries and the general election.
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I’m not sure why you blame McConnell for this confirmation. How is he supposed to make the three RHINOS change their vote? Threaten them? You can’t beat a Senator into submission. You seem to be calling for a public humiliation by “calling them out on the Senate floor.” I would think that after that, these three who are already on the edge, would never cooperate with Republicans again. I don’t see this as a viable strategy. I would thoroughly expect Mitch to talk to them privately and do everything in his powers to convince them to go along (and maybe his is?), but there is only so much you can do with knuckle-heads. Shaming them might make things worse.
It seems to me that the problem lies with Murkowsi, Collins, and Romney. We’re stuck with them and can’t do anything about it until they are up for re-election.
Why blame McConnell? Because keeping the Party members united on these close votes is kind’a his job. And unless we point out that he is part of the problem nothing is going to change.
Not sure if you meant to call her Washburn on purpose since her name is Blackburn, or if there was a reason.
It may be his job, and I find plenty of other things to criticize him for, but he does not have magical powers. I think the real problem is getting someone elected in place of the three RHINOS. Do you think another Senate leader would have changed their minds on the votes? And who?
In Maine we are lucky we have Collins. She is about as conservative as one can get. Mukowski is part of the AK machine, and Romney is well, Romney and lost his compass in 2016. In a way Romney hearkens back to the pre-Bork years of collegiality in the nation and he thinks that if he is nice everyone else will be as well.
McConnell actively supports the re-election of the the RHINOS. Heck, he ought to have a horn himself.
And he has a fearsome reputation as a ruthless politician. But the only ones to feel his wrath are conservative populists. Where’s the big-stick when it comes to Murkowski/Collins/Romney?
Its not that he couldn’t convince them. This is how he likes it. Go back just a few weeks to the debt limit vote. He and the usual suspects engineered a procedural vote on some rules arcana that effectively let Democrats raise the debt limit with no Republican support. Then on the debt limit itself he could harumph about spending and make a show of voting NO while he had already arranged the outcome with Schumer. The fix was in and Mitch arranged it. That’s him all over.
I understand Collins is better than having a Democrat in office, and I definitely like her better than Murkowski. I guess you just have to work with the hand you are dealt. If we can’t hypnotize or threaten Maine voters into putting in a staunch conservative, we can offset that weakness by overturning a few other seats that have actual leftists, like Georgia.
I suspect McConnel supports these specific squishy Republicans (I hesitate to call them RHINOS like I did previously, except in Murkowski’s case) because he knows they are entrenched and he has to get along with them, lest they dissent. If he openly campaigned to oust them he wouldn’t get their votes on critical issues. I think if any one of them lost re-election for a more conservative senator, Mitch would breath a sigh of relief and greet the newcomers with open arms.
I’m just as appalled at McConnell’s support for the spending bill, but that is a different issue than the vote on the Supreme Court Judge.
Yes. Those three have always been pretty reliable pro-Democrat votes when needed on key issues.
I dont see it that way. To me it’s all of a piece. To me it’s just part and parcel of his operating model.
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The problem with Republican Inc is that it has abandoned vigorous Americanism in favor of the “forever skirmish” which trades seats and favors while the nation falls into disrepair outside of the tony precincts where the powerful reside. The January 6 fraud was a breaking point. The election results may not have been fraudulent, but the studied indifference to the questions and favoring “stability” even as it ushered in predictable disaster was unforgiveable.
If we had a system like Canada has (as described to us by @misthiocracy) then he might have the power to whip them all into line. That would be bad.
Murkowski is only in the Senate because McConnell intervened against the Republican voters in Alaska when they elected a Tea Party candidate in their primary. Murkowski responded by running as an independent because McConnell publicly committed to letting her keep all her seniority. Murkowski is now running for reelection, this year, under new rules rigged to defeat a real Republican challenger. McConnell could and should have threatened her with loss of endorsement and campaign funding from the NRSC.
McConnell did not need to threaten the others, just make the meaning of the choice as clear as I did. Make the vote completely toxic, shoving them into doing the right thing.
No. See his history with Murkowski. He is terrified of a real conservative majority in the Senate Republican conference. It would mean the end of his leadership.
AND. These three and several Democrats would likely have shifted against the Biden regime’s nominee if Republican senators, whether McConnell or the supposed conservatives like Cruz, had made perfectly, plainly clear what a vote for this nominee really meant. The confirmation could and should have been made radioactive.
Odd err there. Fixed it.
This would be a great time for a third, America-first conservative party, drawing from disaffected and alienated voters from all demographics.
If we do it now, we can win in 2024. Time’s wasting.
Getting other Senators elected in their place is also a part of his job. However, all he ever does is to 100% support the incumbent regardless of their horrible voting record. He should be very clear that he will direct the NRSC to oppose their re-election bids due to their votes. No more crushing good primary opponents. (see Mississippi 2018)
Well, that might require some actual election integrity…and we know that no politician wants THAT to pass. They figure that they can abuse the laws to their advantage so best not to close those avenues of abuse.
I suspect we will see the Koch brothers, or similar spending massive amounts of $ to various localities to promote voting (in only conservative places) and if the GOP wins, then we will see the Dems shut that down since the GOP did it better.
I don’t believe that for one minute.
That’s only democrats.
There is only one Koch brother left. If the Republicans win, then how can the democrats shut down the elections? They weren’t able to do that in Virginia when they controlled the Governorship, State House, 64% of congressional seats and both senators.
I didn’t see any attempt to raise awareness of her evil in the public eye. They barely knew anyone was nominated. This is a woman who doesn’t think people have natural rights. That is the rock bottom foundation of our legal system and she dismisses it.
Where were the protests? Why weren’t senators grand standing? Nope, all we got was more politeness as the communists rip apart our nation.
Do Republicans understand that their own base loathes them?
I mean, they loathed us first, so we’re only returning the sentiment. But I don’t think they get it.
I don’t think their base loathes them. It is just us staunch conservatives that loathe them.
Years ago in W’s administration that jerk Rove said something like, “We don’t have to worry about them [conservatives] because they have nowhere to go.” Same as the Democrat attitude toward blacks.
Justice Brown Jackson is not someone I would have nominated for the Supreme Court but the attacks on her by Hawley and Cruz were nonsensical and baseless. She is clearly qualified to be a justice in the Supreme Court.
Qualified in what way? Clearly?
I was thinking it might have been kind of a jab at some of the other SCOTUS members, but who knows? Either way I figured I’d just ignore it myself, and if someone else wants to dismantle that foolishness, I think they should. Just not worth my time.
The only thing I can hope for is that people like JD Vance and Blake Masters win and they endlessly harangue the corrupt do nothing leadership of this party. Going after or against the leadership will cost people their committee seats. And the leadership has made that clear in the past. Supporting betrayal of the voters costs nothing and this is why the GOP is just a soulless and worthless machine. Imagine a Republican in 1860 nominating or backing people who were supporters of the slave south. They wouldn’t be republicans in good standing for long. Today you can be a republican and sit on your hands as gender dysphoria is pushed on kids and pedophile sympathizers get nominated to the court and it is A-OK.
There is no ostracization for really anything which shows it is a fake party. Any other organization private or public has limits and boundaries on what you can and can’t do or say before you’re booted out. Not the GOP though. You can do a 180 on just about every conservative principle and be a member in good standing. All the proof you need that this party is garbage.