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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Sinema may still be a wild card. But I wouldn't bet my lunch money on her saving us.

Or that all 50 Republicans will vote no.

flashguy

Romney and Collins for sure will vote for her, she’s not going to need Kamala.

Manchin is a disappointment to me on this one. It’s not hard to imagine that Jackson will be another “justice” that won’t be adhering to the Constitution.

Jackson is black. She's a woman. She's a liberal. She WILL get the appointment. Very few Congress critters will have the balls to vote against her, even if they firmly believe she's not right for the job.

Thomas is the only one who gives a crap about the Constitution. Roberts & Kavanaugh are spineless, and I don't think Barrett's been on there long enough to tell her leanings as far as the Constitution.

The rest of them are hell bent on destroying the Constitution, and seem like they consult with Obama before making any decisions.

And if she is confirmed, the Republicans can plaster her inability to define what a woman is on campaign ads for the next couple election cycles, along with the swimmer.

The "Republican War on Women" never existed, but the Democrats are engaging in one now. I think a lot of women, especially suburban moms are going to start thinking twice about supporting a party that lets men compete with women in sports, refuses to acknowledge well understood biological science, forces children to wear masks, lets teacher's unions control schools, and indoctrinates children into CRT/LBGTQ+whatever.

The left has no jurisprudence. Their approach to the law is completely agenda driven. So, it doesn't matter who sits in that seat. Jackson, my neighbor, or Whoopi Goldberg. Every opinion and vote are going to be exactly the same.

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Originally posted by goose5:
The left has no jurisprudence. Their approach to the law is completely agenda driven. So, it doesn't matter who sits in that seat. Jackson, my neighbor, or Whoopi Goldberg. Every opinion and vote are going to be exactly the same.

Sadly... I agree.
I can't get too worked up about the political theater because we already know it's meaningless.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Sadly... I agree.
I can't get too worked up about the political theater because we already know it's meaningless.

DING! DING! DING! WINNER!!

This right here!! That's why I don't get torqued out about today's politics because, according to Stephen Covey, that shit is waaaaaaaaay beyond my "Circle of Influence". There ain't a got damp thing I can do to change it and there's no sense in trying...causes the beating of head against brick wall. It's all Kabuki Theater. I've been trying to enlighten mother with this approach for YEARS, yet she still clings to Fox News like the Libtards and Demoshits will all of a sudden have an epiphany and right the wrongs. Not. Gonna. Happen.

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it".

^^ I know a lot of people with a similar attitude. Some people I know tune out and ignore most of it, preferring to focus on entertainment instead. Sure they vote every few years, but that's about it. They are more interested in who won American Idol when that was the thing to watch.

But while they weren't paying attention, their local school boards got overrun with far left loonies, their district attorney's offices got overrun with social justice activists that won't prosecute criminals, their mayors and city governments voted to defund the police, their children's athletic programs started allowing boys dressing up as girls to compete against girls, their employers forced them to attend CRT training, and what have you.

This is what happens when you let the side that never stops pushing their communist agenda take the advantage. It took a pandemic and widespread school at home for people to realize what their kids were being taught. It took widespread riots, lawlessness, and massive increases in violent crime for them to realize what happened to their local governments. It took Biden's election through admitted media/tech/business collusion to control the narrative and "get out the vote", and the real time dumpster fire we are all watching right now to get them to realize that mean tweets weren't so bad after all.

And when we get these clowns out of office, repairing the damage they have done will take decades. We've been through this before - the liberalization of the late 60's, disaster of the 70's, crime surge of the 80's and eventual stabilization as the 90's progressed and into the 2000's. And then what happens? They DO IT AGAIN! Undo everything that fixed the problems through the irrational juxtaposition of cause and effect, let it all go to shit, and then we have to clean it up again.

But I get it - I have a demanding job, I'm a 1/2 time single parent to my son, and I used to travel often for my job before COVID. During my heaviest travel 2011-2015 I liked disconnecting from the Obummer mess at home for weeks at a time.

I don't have tons of time to go to protests, or counterprotests, or politically rallies, or school board meetings, or what have you. Where all the far left activists get the time and money to engage in their silliness is beyond me. But someone they do have the time and the funding, and unless they are stopped, we will continue to slouch toward communism until we are basically the same as China.

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It's essentially over...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has become the first Republican to cross party lines in support of Biden Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

In a statement to the New York Times, Collins said she made the decision after two personal meetings with Jackson - the second on Tuesday afternoon, which the Senator said 'alleviated' some concerns over a host of divisive issues including Jackson's record of handing down light sentences to pedophiles.

"I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the Supreme Court," said Collins.

"In recent years, senators on both sides of the aisle have gotten away from what I perceive to be the appropriate process for evaluating judicial nominees," she added. "In my view, the role under the Constitution assigned to the Senate is to look at the credentials, experience and qualifications of the nominee. It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the individual ideology of a senator or would vote exactly as an individual senator would want."

Her decision will allow Mr. Biden and Senate Democrats to claim some degree of bipartisanship around the historic nomination, though whether other Republicans will join Ms. Collins remains unclear.

If Democrats stay united, it would also avoid the spectacle of Vice President Kamala Harris having to break a tie to seat a nominee on the Supreme Court, an unprecedented outcome that some saw as potentially damaging to the court’s standing. -NYT

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ackson-supreme-court

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Originally posted by chellim1:
"In recent years, senators on both sides of the aisle have gotten away from what I perceive to be the appropriate process for evaluating judicial nominees," she added. "In my view, the role under the Constitution assigned to the Senate is to look at the credentials, experience and qualifications of the nominee. It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the individual ideology of a senator or would vote exactly as an individual senator would want."

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ackson-supreme-court

Hey, Senator Collins, if you could convince your colleagues across the aisle to honor such ethics, instead of virtuously yielding the battlefield to the enemy, we'd be more impressed.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
It's essentially over...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has become the first Republican to cross party lines in support of Biden Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

In a statement to the New York Times, Collins said she made the decision after two personal meetings with Jackson - the second on Tuesday afternoon, which the Senator said 'alleviated' some concerns over a host of divisive issues including Jackson's record of handing down light sentences to pedophiles.

"I have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be a member of the Supreme Court," said Collins.

"In recent years, senators on both sides of the aisle have gotten away from what I perceive to be the appropriate process for evaluating judicial nominees," she added. "In my view, the role under the Constitution assigned to the Senate is to look at the credentials, experience and qualifications of the nominee. It is not to assess whether a nominee reflects the individual ideology of a senator or would vote exactly as an individual senator would want."

Her decision will allow Mr. Biden and Senate Democrats to claim some degree of bipartisanship around the historic nomination, though whether other Republicans will join Ms. Collins remains unclear.

If Democrats stay united, it would also avoid the spectacle of Vice President Kamala Harris having to break a tie to seat a nominee on the Supreme Court, an unprecedented outcome that some saw as potentially damaging to the court’s standing. -NYT

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ackson-supreme-court

I'd agree with Senator Collins, but only if both sides would play by that rule. Until that happens, it will and should be a partisan brawl.

The only (partially) saving grace is that she would be replacing another Liberal-minded Justice.

flashguy

Senator Collins knows how lopsided this "both sides" talk is. She also knows that no one is planning to play by that rule for years to come. she saw what the last confirmations looked like...on the surface these are vacuous statements. just below the surface, they are statements in bad faith.

Collins is writing a book of complete failure as a politician. This is simply another chapter in that book. The woman is an utter disgrace and so devoid of IQ, she might as well be a Dem.

Remember at one time Maine was part of Massachusetts, I guess the insanity infection stayed.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Remember at one time Maine was part of Massachusetts, I guess the insanity infection stayed.

I suspect the Maineites (Mainians, Mainers?) would say they'd been invaded from the south.

flashguy