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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Chuck S called on Senate to follow Biden Rule and do as they did with Merrick Garland so that the voters through the Senate get to have their voices heard.

That's a bullshit argument. We had gone through eight years of BHO's presidency. We were electing new president at the very end of two term lame duck President and 1/3 of Senate. This year's election occurs less than half way through Trump's first term. The voters did already speak very recently, less than two years ago and they clearly said that they want Trump in the White House and trust him to pick justices.

The Biden Rule dealt with Presidential Elections.

To extend it to within a year of any federal election would mean no confirmations half the time. Preposterous!

Preposterous is the perfect word for that. Chuckie and the dems are simply in dire despair and throwing anything out there. Pathetic.

Now I am praying God will call Old Ruthie home!!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
[I don't want her to retire. I want her to fucking die during a hearing.

BANG!! The sound of her empty fucking head hitting the desk.

The other day, a member said that this hag was "only" 85! ONLY 85!! Good grief. That's ANCIENT.

Pretty sure she is dead - it's just a sequel to Weekend at Bernie's ... just untitled yet.

They definitely need to get this done before the elections. McCaskill thinks she can win by appealing to the moderate conservatives. She would be forced to support any Trump nominee with the credentials of a Gorsuch.

Even if she ends up endorsing a Trump nominee, it won't help her. But I ain't giving her a heads up. No way.

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
They definitely need to get this done before the elections. McCaskill thinks she can win by appealing to the moderate conservatives. She would be forced to support any Trump nominee with the credentials of a Gorsuch.

Even if she ends up endorsing a Trump nominee, it won't help her. But I ain't giving her a heads up. No way.

Same with Manchin.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
No well-adjusted, rational person person could make a direct logical leap from the retirement of a SCOTUS justice to fascist death camps.

That's starting to look like one of the nicer fringe benefits of Kennedy's retirement. The public at large is hearing so many histrionic outbursts at this particular moment in time that it's amusing now and will be irritating in about a week. Then when all the pundits' dark visions of an ur-dystopian future turn out to be nonsense, their credibility is shot and all of the "brave activists" wonderful gestures will come across as anything from silly to (at least) mildly deranged.

It would be nice to think that they're building themselves up for some real hysteria over the midterm elections. It would also be nice to think that they're beginning to panic a bit about what they could lose in the midterm elections. They may wind up alienating quite a few people or convincing quite a few people that they're simply a moribund party by doing their best to get seats in Congress. Besides, when Dems are out of power and go full squirrel they can provide hours of cheap entertainment.

Goodbye Justice Kennedy And Goodbye Gun Control

“The news that Justice Anthony Kennedy has retired from the Supreme Court is sending liberals and progressives into a panic. Kennedy has of course been the key swing vote in abortion and gay rights cases. Whether those cases will withstand a new Supreme Court with five core conservatives is a serious question. But there is another area of Supreme Court jurisprudence that may also be dramatically affected by Kennedy’s retirement: the Second Amendment.

The Supreme Court has only ruled in favor of an individual right to own guns in two decisions, and in neither one did Kennedy write his own opinion. He did, however, make up one of the five votes in both 2008’s D.C. v. Heller, and 2010’s McDonald v. City of Chicago. Both cases invalidated complete bans on possessing handguns in each city. The Supreme Court has not, however, returned to the Second Amendment since McDonald was decided, despite thousands of lower court cases wrestling with the balance between the right to keep and bear arms and public safety.

There has been a lot of speculation about why the five court conservatives, including Kennedy, have not reviewed any of the lower court cases upholding various gun restrictions. The most common theory is that neither the four conservatives other than Kennedy, nor the four liberals, knew how Kennedy was going to vote.

What this likely means is that we can expect the Supreme Court to start reviewing a few of the more important gun control cases now percolating in the lower courts. Whether the issue is the validity of bans on so-called assault rifles, the length of waiting periods before people can buy guns or requirements for people to receive concealed-carry permits, our nation’s highest court may well start imposing its will on the gun measures of all 50 states and many cities and towns.

Kennedy’s uncertain swing vote is simply no longer an obstacle. Whether another conservative justice, most likely Chief Justice John Roberts, will step in to allow these difficult and complex issues to be decided at the state and local levels is anyone’s guess.

Sadly, I wouldn’t bet on it.

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She might already be dead but it's like a Weekend at Bernie's thing going on in the SC.

Or it's like the Beatles with an actor playing Paul since he was killed in an auto accident.

No, thank YOU Dirty Harry!

Yep. Hadda doot. No choice, right, Harry? Hadda, hadda doot.

Asshole

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Yep. Hadda doot. No choice, right, Harry? Hadda, hadda doot.

Asshole

Karma is a downright bitch, eh?

I know it was said at the time they pulled that stunt that Reid and the Dims would live to regret it, that there would come a time when the R's would use it to their advantage...but did they listen? NAAAAHHHHH......

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA^

Harry Reid

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

you big dope

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

The fluid in the main hydraulic line must have leaked out again. The Disney engineers need to build a redundant back-up system to avoid this kind of embarrassment.



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Thanks Dirty Harry we will put it to good use now.

The commie that the democrats just sent to Congress doesn't even know how Congress works!

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
They may wind up alienating quite a few people or convincing quite a few people that they're simply a moribund party by doing their best to get seats in Congress.

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Il Cattivo wins the thread for the day with his use of the word "moribund" in a sentence. I'm pretty well versed, but had to look that one up! Kudos to you, sir!!

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