tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post6006506222262069786..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: IT'S HARD TO PLAY 11-DIMENSIONAL CHESS WHEN YOUR OPPONENT KEEPS KICKING OVER THE BOARDSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25608499651204539762016-04-16T20:01:44.705-04:002016-04-16T20:01:44.705-04:00Obama's too feckless to want the job. I think ...Obama's too feckless to want the job. I think he's dreaming of a Tony Blair-like retirement. Jetting around the globe on the sovereigns' dime handing out advice to the great and good for massive fees, everyone bowing and scraping as he enters the room while he plays it casual.Darohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965288170032365125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-471967396710955802016-04-16T05:36:31.652-04:002016-04-16T05:36:31.652-04:00I have a fantasy scenario I'd like to play out...I have a fantasy scenario I'd like to play out. The (R) Senate stonewalls on the Supreme Court nominee up to the election. The (D) nominee wins the in a landslide, plus the Senate becomes strongly (D) again, and the House gets a few more (D)'s to help ease up on the gridlock there. President Obama then withdraws his nominee from consideration. The new President nominates Obama as the new nominee. Wingnuts go wild!Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09680604981092904582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-34475374289947617892016-04-16T00:53:33.468-04:002016-04-16T00:53:33.468-04:00@Luigi. Hillary is the problem, not the answer.@Luigi. Hillary is the problem, not the answer.Darohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965288170032365125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-80497890906574543992016-04-16T00:21:11.332-04:002016-04-16T00:21:11.332-04:00"When a party does break the stalemate, it mi..."When a party does break the stalemate, it might have the chance to fill two, three, four seats at once."<br /><br />This. The right may be hoping Ginsberg dies or retires soon, restoring a conservative majority. Then they can smugly offer to confirm Garland as Ginsberg's replacement provided Hillary nominates a suitably conservative replacement for Scalia. Don't like it? It's OK, we're happy with a 7 person bench.<br /><br />If one of the conservative justices is next to go, well they're no worse off in their own eyes than they would be by consenting to Garland. Especially if Kennedy is the one to go. And they will cling to the glorious prospect of taking both the White House and the Senate in 2020, when they can appoint a raft of young conservatives led by Ted Cruz to dominate the Supreme Court for a generation. Ken_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11709548046018362581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63719511228719931442016-04-15T21:33:10.209-04:002016-04-15T21:33:10.209-04:00IMO this is absolutely correct, but it isn't t...IMO this is absolutely correct, but it isn't the only possibility.<br /><br />Matthew Stephenson argues that by refraining from voting on a nomination for some period of time the Senate de facto confirms that nominee:<br /><br />http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/1129_pb467jtz.pdf<br /><br />It'd trigger a constitutional crisis, but you could argue that the Senate's refusal to hold hearings on a nominee ipso facto creates a constitional crisis.<br /><br />Jim Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01683702294178406033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-62746898906083365962016-04-15T20:49:27.948-04:002016-04-15T20:49:27.948-04:00Ken Starr is thinking more legal beagle strtegal t...Ken Starr is thinking more legal beagle strtegal than McConnell and the Heritage nim-nodes that pull McConnell's strings. The latter all see there being zero effective difference between a Marxist ultra fem super lib trans-gendered hippy on the court and Merrick Garland. It's really hard to argue the point because the FreeDumbers have - not just figuratively in terms of primary-ing their sorry pancake butts completely out of the lucrative politics game, but quite possibly literally as well - a gun to the head of McConnell, of Ryan, and indeed of anyone in GOP establishment leadership.<br /><br />It does no good at all to raise nuances of reasonable centrist measure Garland versus pretty much the most liberal judge in all the Circuit Courts fo Appeal with McConnell and Chuckles Grassley or anyone anywhere near the top of Congressional GOP establishment leadership. They're all concerned less with such details as staying upright.<br /><br />When the White Supremacists lose THIS presidential election, a lot of folks are going to be beat up, terrorized, shot at, shot period, their homes and businesses burned down and many of them killed.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-19244422617314843142016-04-15T14:42:32.484-04:002016-04-15T14:42:32.484-04:00Which is why its time to stop screwing around with...Which is why its time to stop screwing around with Sanders and start giving money to Democratic Senate candidates who can and will win with the support an HRC tidal wave will create.Luigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16483229810538275725noreply@blogger.com