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Senate DemocRats were acting like big babies having a temper tantrum. They are fools.
Sort-of on topic, sort of off..
The problem with our government is not the President (whatever his manifest faults may be).
The problem is we have a Legislative branch that reuses to legislate.
When’s the last time the Congress passed a real budget? During the W. Bush Administration? Or do we have to go back to Clinton?
I fear that this is the beginning of the end. The great American traditions have been blown to hell, and not by Trump.
There is no longer a “loyal opposition,” it is “the resistance.” Guess what? If there is a Biden presidency and a Democratic Congress there will not be a loyal opposition either, there will be a “new“ resistance. And if the Democrats escalate their plans to dismantle “Trumpism“ through packing the court and adding states then that “resistance” may ratchet up. And quite frankly that’s the recipe for a shooting war. I hope they think long and hard about this.
Hell, a lot of the Democratic Senators just walked in and gave a “thumbs-down.” (I blame the late, unlamented John McCain for this.) They didn’t have the decency to say “Nay.”
Going by memory, I think it was in the 1990’s. Perhaps in the Paul Ryan speakership years the House passed budgets, but not the Senate.
They could have come in white. No, they did that. They could have come in black, but that’s anti-fa. The could have at least come in Handmaid’s Tale costumes. I wonder what they’re saving that for?
I posted this on Twitter today:
The thumbs down may have been a tad more respectful than Sen. Hirono’s “Hell No”.
Dems are used to “winning” and regard it as an affront when they do not. The correct analogy is “spoiled brats.”
They lost this one and did so in complete compliance with the rules of the Senate. So not showing up is their version of stomping their feet and whining because they didn’t “get their way.” Arrested development.
I think you meant “would not.” And the following sentences would need to be change, as well.
Halloween.
This been escalating since the ‘hanging chad’ election of 2000. That’s the first time I heard “not my President” and talk of an “illegitimate” election. 9/11 tamped it down for a time, but as soon as the Iraq war started it was back with a vengeance. As the Democrat party has moved relentlessly leftward, the animus has only accelerated. Obama managed to add charges of racism to the hexenkessel. The ‘Mass incarceration’ mantra has made distrust of the police and the justice system a mainstream Democrat position. Heretofore, Democrats held the Federal courts, especially the Supreme Court, in high regard because they reliably sided with Democrats. This new argument that the court system itself is Illegitimate is a dangerous upping of the ante. What they are telling their supporters is that the system doesn’t work. If Trump wins the election, the message will be clear. They’ll argue they can’t win at the ballot box – that there was voter suppression etc. They’ve been honing that argument for years. And now if the courts are stacked against them that leaves no vehicle for working for change through the system. They’ll have painted themselves into a corner where “Burn It Down“ is the only alternative.
They’ve upped it this year. The argument is that long lines at the polls are “voter suppression.” The stupid, it burns!
You mean Senator “Morono” . . .
She is the dumbest Senator.
That’s a highly competitive position.
That’s where they are and, if they win, we haven’t seen anything yet. Of course it’s not possible to know what will happen should they win. It will take months to sort out who runs the party, let alone what they’re going to do. The safest thing is to go with Trump, hope the Democrats come to their senses and hope that Trump transforms our schools so there is some hope to have a future. Of course, we’re likely to suffer a collapsing currency unless Trump sees it and engages in radical change, otherwise we’ve already lost. At least Democrats can blame Nixon, so maybe there’s a way to rebuild a center after the likely chaos.
Every Democrat Senator . . .
A meme update is needed: “Fine. I’ll just take your ball and go home.”
Two factors:
How much the Democratic Senators fear the Left.
How well they understand that the liberal media will spin this, with the “unprecedented” empty chairs underlining the “illegitimacy” of the Barrett confirmation.
A number just walked in and gave a thumbs down to the clerks. Is that normal for regular votes?
I fear you’re right. I’m glad as glad can be with the confirmation. She’s who I wanted even when Kavanaugh was nominated (in hindsight it probably was much better this way) and I don’t think this one event is what pushed us over the edge so I’ll take every bit of advantage we can get. However, I am sad to say I don’t really see how we come back from the fact that for the first time we didn’t give a president the peaceful transfer of power every other president has gotten or the legitimacy he deserved. I’m just not sure what it’ll take to heal us.
That’s not normal for anything.
I just commented about thinking President Trump was the first to experience illegitimacy. You’re right, it was with President Bush I remember really hearing “not my President” and “illegitimate” election. I suppose I didn’t count it as the first time because he had such a solid mandate in 2004 and maybe social media, while present, still wasn’t exactly what it is today.
There was a little bit of it with Clinton in 1992 with this 43% share of the popular vote. But we didn’t have the internet and social media to amplify it.
The official vote probably should have been something like 52 – 0.
There are times I think she and Patty Murray are both fighting for the title . . .
Well, there was kind of an episode with Democrats reacting badly to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
If Biden supposedly “wins” on Nov 3 – or in the week or so after, however long the Dems keep finding ballots – then that allows until Jan 20 to weed out ballots from dead people etc, to find the actual result.
How very Imperial of them.