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[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Tell them: TRUMP DOESN'T GET A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE UNDER THE SAME McCONNELL JUSTIFICATION THAT OBAMA DIDN'T

Why? If you want SCOTUS appointees you need both the White House and the Senate. The rules were very clear. This "electoral college didn't work"/"Pack the courts!"/"Senate seats should be proportional to population"-I-didn't-know-the-rules-so-we-have-to-change-them is the real banana republic BS.

Dems have garbage, trash strategists working for them. It's not the system, the laws, or the luck of how things keep playing out, and its not like you can turn and blame it on the GOP - your opponent's not going to just play at a handicap because your team captain is a moron and delivers results with the odds of a scratch-off lottery ticket. The DNC is broke, has been for over a decade, so of course they can't hire anyone worthwhile and instead stick with the establishment cronyism leadership that's driven the party into the gutter.

Case-in-point, the Dems allow John Podesta to continue calling the shots this election cycle...why, exactly!? As if he weren't a senile old clueless bastard who fell for a simple phishing scam ("Russian hackers") and compromised the entirety of his professional career, after 2016 he has proven himself a total loser, bungling the easiest lay-up of a presidential election ever possible.

The Senate only needs a simple majority to confirm. Dems needed 2/3rds to convict on impeachment and couldn't even get a simple majority. It's not the GOP's fault that the clueless Dem leadership continues to plow forward into these contests without ever doing the simple math beforehand. Democrat senators can go outside and scream and the GOP can confirm whoever Trump puts forward without even needing their input.

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree that Democrats have trash strategists, but Mitch McConnell himself said no Supreme Court justices during an election year.

That was when it was Obama's turn to choose a Supreme Court Justice. When Trump wants one, McConnell changes the rules.

THAT is one of the hallmarks of a Banana Republic.