Gorsuch hearing

April 07, 2017, 01:12 PM

Floyd D. Barber

Gorsuch hearing

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
A belated Happy Birthday to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned 84 last month.

Happy Birthday, Ruthie!

Ruthie?

We'll have cake later. She's napping just now.

Be sure to give her some Jolt Cola to go with it.

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April 07, 2017, 01:15 PM

flashguy

Although I don't think this is the case, Republican Presidents have been burned by their Supreme Court Justice appointees before. Perhaps we should hold off rejoicing until Justice Gorsuch actually makes his first decisions.

flashguy

April 07, 2017, 01:16 PM

bigdeal

quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
A belated Happy Birthday to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turned 84 last month.

Happy Birthday, Ruthie!

Ruthie?

We'll have cake later. She's napping just now.

You might wanna check her for a pulse.

And my congratulations to our newest SCOTUS justice.

April 07, 2017, 01:17 PM

parabellum

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
You might wanna check her for a pulse.

Maybe tomorrow

April 07, 2017, 01:19 PM

Il Cattivo

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How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?

I'm told it's down to a bunch of little old ladies in Green Valley.

April 07, 2017, 01:21 PM

chellim1

Hey, Sonia!
Puerto Rico could really use a wise Latina woman like yourself...

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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April 07, 2017, 01:38 PM

bigdeal

quote:
Originally posted by Bassamatic:
How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?

I don't know, but I'd bet if we gave him the pilot's seat in an airplane, the problem would resolve itself.

April 07, 2017, 01:50 PM

wishfull thinker

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
quote:
Originally posted by Bassamatic:
How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?
I don't know, but I'd bet if we gave him the pilot's seat in an airplane, the problem would resolve itself.

His airplanes have tried before:

McCain did lose two Navy aircraft while piloting them. One crash was found to be be McCain's fault, the other due to an engine failure of undetermined cause.. A third was destroyed on the deck of the carrier USS Forrestal when a missile fired accidentally from another plane hit either the plane next to McCain's or, less likely, his own aircraft, triggering a disastrous fire that killed 134 sailors and nearly killed McCain. A fourth plane was lost when he was shot down over North Vietnam on a bombing mission over Hanoi.
A fifth alleged "crash" turns out to be a misinterpretation of a flight accident that did not result in the loss of the aircraft. McCain admitted to causing that incident through "daredevil clowning" but returned safely.
fact check

April 07, 2017, 02:07 PM

TomS

I hope Judge Gorsuch has both long life and memory.

And that he will hold a grudge over what he has been put through by the commie leftists!

April 07, 2017, 02:25 PM

Spokane228

quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
Although I don't think this is the case, Republican Presidents have been burned by their Supreme Court Justice appointees before. Perhaps we should hold off rejoicing until Justice Gorsuch actually makes his first decisions.

flashguy

I'm very confident he is, and will remain an Originalist. Read his response to Sen. Feinstein during the hearings.

quote:
It would be a mistake to suggest that originalism turns on the secret intentions of the drafters of the language of the law. [The] point of originalism, textualism, whatever label you want to put on it — what a good judge always strives to do and what we all do — is [to] understand what the words on the page mean, not import words that come from us. . . . It matters not that some of the drafters of the 14th Amendment were racists, because they were, or sexists, because they were. The law they drafted promises equal protection of the laws. That’s what they wrote. And those — the original meaning of those words, John Marshall Harlan captured in his dissent in [Plessy v. Ferguson], that equal protection of the laws does not mean separate in advancing one particular race or gender. It means equal.

I'm thrilled!

April 07, 2017, 02:32 PM

jhe888

quote:
Originally posted by Bassamatic:
I just heard McCain scolding the republicans for going "nuclear" saying..."that is not how it is supposed to work".

How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?

He doesn't think it is how it SHOULD work, but he did support extending the Reid rule and nuked the filibuster. Haven't you ever been forced to do something that you wished you didn't have to do?

April 07, 2017, 02:32 PM

JALLEN

quote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
Although I don't think this is the case, Republican Presidents have been burned by their Supreme Court Justice appointees before. Perhaps we should hold off rejoicing until Justice Gorsuch actually makes his first decisions.

flashguy

Not just Republicans. It happens both ways.

Harry Truman said his worst mistake as President was naming Tom Clark to the Supreme Court.

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In the book Plain Speaking by the writer Merle Miller, based on interviews with President Truman, Miller attributes to Truman the statement that appointing Clark to the Court was his “biggest mistake” as President, adding, ”He was no damn good as Attorney General, and on the Supreme Court . . . it doesn’t seem possible, but he’s been even worse.” Allegedly asked by Miller to explain the comment, Miller quotes Truman as stating further: “The main thing is . . . well, it isn’t so much that he’s a bad man. It’s just that he’s such a dumb son of a bitch. He’s about the dumbest man I think I’ve ever run across.”

wikipedia Tom Clark

That quote has been challenged and no tape is known to exist.

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

April 07, 2017, 02:34 PM

jhe888

If for no other reason, this is a good reason to be glad Trump was elected. Gorsuch should be on the court long after the Donald is dead and gone.

Congratulations to Justice Gorsuch.

April 07, 2017, 03:00 PM

Elk Hunter

quote:
Originally posted by Bassamatic:
I just heard McCain scolding the republicans for going "nuclear" saying..."that is not how it is supposed to work".

How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?

How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?

Cuz they have a bunch of idiots in the major cities that keep sending the over the hill, geriatric asshole back.

Elk

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FBHO!!!

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April 07, 2017, 03:02 PM

Elk Hunter

quote:
Originally posted by amals:
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
Rejoice, guys. Ignore the pettiness.

I am ecstatic. I can think of few things more important to the future of America than this resolution to our Supreme Court vacancy issue. I think Gorsuch will make an outstanding Justice, and I couldn't be happier that the process is complete and that he will don the robes next week. Hot damn!

Yes, I am happy, too. Would be happier if Gorsuch was going in as chief justice instead of Roberts.

April 07, 2017, 03:04 PM

GT-40DOC

This winning thing does tire one out somewhat, but I am in training to persevere!!

April 07, 2017, 03:04 PM

Elk Hunter

quote:
Originally posted by wcb6092:
It is about time the Republicans turned on the Democrats using some of the same dirty tactics the Democrats have used.

John McCain need to retire.

What is this dirty tactics?

Repubs just used the same tactics created and instituted by the democraPs.

And, yes McLame not only needs to retire, he should have done it about 10 years ago, before his brain went dead.

April 07, 2017, 03:10 PM

46and2

Outstanding.

April 07, 2017, 03:43 PM

JALLEN

quote:
Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
This winning thing does tire one out somewhat, but I am in training to persevere!!

When the going gets tough, the tough get going!

Tenacity!