Yeah, wait for the judicial review of that proposal.
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If the shoe were on the other foot … If Schumer was in McConnell’s place controlling the Senate, and the Republicans were in the minority, do you think he would have waited? And if he didn’t, would that have bothered you?
There certainly needs to be Senate reform, and we need to strongly and forcefully repudiate McConnell’s hypocrisy, but packing the court is not the way to get there. Doing that just seems like more brinkmanship, and more of the same to me.
I don’t think we would have an analogous situation. Dems get criticized for being pushovers, but you just wouldn’t have a situation where a Dem Senate would have failed to even consider a GOP SCOTUS appointment almost a year before the end of a Presidential term. That’s the baseline we’re working from.
I could see the Dems making this move as a counter to the GOP denying a Dem President an appointment, but not piling onto such a denial themselves.
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His neediness and narcissism is boundless. Pathetic little man.
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Meh. For all the talk of “protecting the vulnerable”, the Do Nothings never propose a practical way of doing that, or show any signs of enacting legislation or allocating funds to make it happen.
Wake me up when they revamp the regulations on long-term care homes to enforce standards, inspections, increase wages so that caregivers aren’t forced to take multiple jobs to survive (hugely increasing the risk of infection).
This is the Great Barrington Declaration herd immunity scam.
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President Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America’s largest corps, top study finds
The Trump administration’s June crackdown on foreign workers with H-1B and other visas wiped $100bn off the stock market value of the largest US companies, according to boffins at The Brookings Institution, Harvard Business School, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
In a research paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research, authors Dany Bahar (Brookings), Prithwiraj Choudhury (Harvard), and Britta Glennon (Wharton) analyzed the market capitalization of 471 Fortune 500 companies before and after the President’s Executive Order (EO) banning certain foreigners from entering the States, to track changes in those corporations’ cumulative average abnormal returns.
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Yes, yes… both sides, we know… I mean, one side is fascist and the other is not, but sure, they’re both equally evil.
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Some good news for a change:
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Or, you know. Projection.
His need to Destroy all things Obama. Deny him in every conceivable way.
Maybe it’s not the Media that is obsessed with Obama’s good looks.
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All I know is who I’d rather see shirtless jogging down the beach.
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It’s Trump, right? I mean Trump running shirtless down the beach would mean some dire shit is happening for him.
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the shoe has been on the other foot and almost all the time the democrats have unilaterally disarmed. blue slips are a classic example where the democrats when in the majority have given republican senators a veto over judicial nominees even though the republicans immediately stop honoring them as soon as the claim the majority.
to answer your pair of questions, if schumer was majority leader i think he absolutely would have waited for the election results. and if he hadn’t, no it wouldn’t have bothered me a bit because of the lived experience of the last 30 years.
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Mmmmm ya think?
COVID brain fog much?
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If only.
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Maddow is such an f’g bag of hot air.
She spins a magical yarn and that’s it. Dems are are going to do nothing.
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while previous history suggests that congressional democrats have a slow, painfully slow, learning curve, they do show signs of learning.
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Names? And unless McConnell is on that list, none of that matters. The GOP writ large has declared war on Democrats and democracy; even if some in their ranks have gotten cold feet, the base that they’ve spent 12 years riling up with racist white supremacist fervor isn’t just going to let them call a cease fire and go back to the good old days of comity and bipartisanship. They’ve hardened into an extremist party that sees any sort of compromise as unforgivable weakness.
For fuck’s sake, they can’t even advocate for reasonable COVID mitigation practices because they’re so far over the event horizon at this point that everything is a partisan battle where they need to be allowed to do whatever they want for any reason (or no reason at all), and any concession to the common good is anathema. Even when it’s basic public health. Even when doing the actual right thing would help their constituencies.
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ill admit im confused by that analysis when we already have republicans coming out of the woodwork to support biden right now, and at least part of his polling advantage comes from former trump supporters… but we’ll see how it goes i guess. i hope we do at least
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