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MineralMan

(146,255 posts)
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 09:56 AM Mar 2017

Gorsuch Has All the Qualities Needed to Become

A Rotary President. He's got the "Hail, Fellow. Well Met" schtick down pat and has the gift of gab that lets him say the pleasing, standard thing expected in almost all circumstances. He has the clean-cut, dressed for success look and the knowing smile rehearsed so well that he can't do anything else.

He'd be a shoe-in to win any run for President of any local Rotary Club, and maybe even for a regional or national Presidency, in good time.

As a SCOTUS Justice, though, I'm not liking him one bit. Behind that well-rehearsed facade is a cunning, scheming Republican who will gut the intent of the Constitution, but always with that smile on his face and a well-spoken word or two.

Filibuster the SOB, Democrats! Just do it.

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Gorsuch Has All the Qualities Needed to Become (Original Post) MineralMan Mar 2017 OP
Yes! Squinch Mar 2017 #1
Oh, I think he uses that sort of speech anytime MineralMan Mar 2017 #2
As I have said elsewhere, a few dead bodies in his basement wouldn't surprise me. Squinch Mar 2017 #3
I don't know about that, really. MineralMan Mar 2017 #5
The Dems need to get him off the stage in any way possible. Haven't they learned anything shraby Mar 2017 #4
Gosh... cbreezen Mar 2017 #6
Al Franken saw that MFM008 Mar 2017 #7
I was working and missed his questioning. MineralMan Mar 2017 #10
I have been listening to the hearing 2naSalit Mar 2017 #8
The down-home schtick for the cameras BainsBane Mar 2017 #9

MineralMan

(146,255 posts)
2. Oh, I think he uses that sort of speech anytime
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 10:01 AM
Mar 2017

he's in public. What he actually thinks, though, is deeply masked, and revealed rarely to others.

MineralMan

(146,255 posts)
5. I don't know about that, really.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 10:05 AM
Mar 2017

Nobody does, really. He is, however, not who he appears to be, I think.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
4. The Dems need to get him off the stage in any way possible. Haven't they learned anything
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 10:04 AM
Mar 2017

about trump's nominations to each and every slot?

MineralMan

(146,255 posts)
10. I was working and missed his questioning.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 02:15 PM
Mar 2017

I'm not surprised that he noticed it, though. He's a very, very perceptive man.

2naSalit

(86,330 posts)
8. I have been listening to the hearing
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:18 AM
Mar 2017

on NPR, my only access to this, and Sen. Franken's questions brought out something I felt compelled to write to the Senator about and asked him to ask the candidate. Since the candidate insists that he reviews "the law" when making a decision... which he also proved was BS... is that in the "frozen trucker" dissent he claims to have stuck to the letter of the law, only he didn't. Had he actually done that, reviewed the law prior to making the dissenting rant, he would have seen that his claims are BS. The driver in the case was operating TWO (2) vehicles rather than just one. It was two vehicles attached in combination - actual terminology in the DOT laws - the tractor (power unit) is ONE VEHICLE, the trailer is the SECOND VEHICLE which he was unable/unwilling to operate. He was well within his legal rights to act as he did for self preservation and Gorsuck was dead wrong and chose to only cherry pick parts of the law to reach his dissenting conclusion... glad the case went against his decision. As a retired driver, I felt the need to point out that pesky little fact because even a 9th grade dropout truck driver would know this as it is also usually an applicable point made on the actual licensing exam!

BainsBane

(53,012 posts)
9. The down-home schtick for the cameras
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:20 AM
Mar 2017

is among the traits that tell me he cannot be trusted. He's a phony.

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