Populist Reform of the Democratic Party
In reply to the discussion: No apologies from me, I can't imagine a more vomit inducing nominee for the Democratic Party [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)Then we fuck ourselves all the way to the next Supreme Court nomination. GUARANTEED: if a CON gets to do the picking because the CON got into the White House because OUR SIDE sulked and stayed home on Election Day, here's what we'll get in a Supreme Court nominee:
1) Relatively young - will be able blight the court for several decades. (It'll be a LONG time before john roberts and samuel alito age out. and JUST LOOK at how clarence thomas and antonin scalia are managing to hang on, too.)
2) INCREASINGLY hard-ass CONservative in their outlook. Do you think for one nanosecond that jeb bush or scott walker or ben carson or chris christie or governor oops or mike huckabooboo or any of those other fuckheads would choose someone who's even moderate in his or her judicial leanings OR past rulings????
3) Completely disingenuous in Senate hearings. They're NOT going to tip their hand about how they intend to rule on issues surrounding a woman's right to choose, or the people's right to vote, or the right to collective bargaining, or corporate personhood, or the Affordable Care Act, or immigration reform, or extremist Christianist infiltration of our government, or any of that. They WON'T tip their hands. They'll be well-schooled in how to respond to pointed questions from Dems on the Judiciary committee - how to dodge, how to bob 'n' weave and sound noncommittal and open-minded. THEY WON'T BE ANYTHING OF THE KIND, in their heart-of-hearts. But they'll try to soothe worried Dems on the committee that Roe v Wade is settled law and all that. They will do EVERYTHING they can, and say ANYTHING they think will work, to get the job, and then rule for the teabaggers and Troglodytes now and forever more amen.
You can take THAT to the bank.
Better you take it to the VOTING BOOTH. Just Fuckin' DO IT.