I'm listening to Senator Graham lament that we've become so partisan and political that we'll probably only confirm a very qualified justice by a 51-49 vote. He's stunned....STUNNED, I tell ya, that we're so partisan. No mention of blocking Obama's nomination for nearly a year. No mention of how the GOP advised (including John McCain) that they were prepared to block any nominee by Hillary for her entire term if the GOP had the numbers in the Senate. What kind of mirrorless world do these people live in?
I'm fine with Kavanaugh getting onto SCOTUS. I was fine with the last guy, too, and the last guy and the last guy and the last guy (and gals...to be fair). I'm fine with all of them because I generally trust the vetting process. What I'm not fine with is Kavanaugh getting onto SCOTUS after the bullshit that was perpetrated against Obama regarding Garland. So now we have this war that can't really end. I'd lie, cheat and steal to keep this guy off the court if I had the power to do so. That's modern day politics. It sucks but it is what it is. Until that wrong is righted, I support any and all Dem efforts to deny that person his seat just out of my sense of fairness and justice. Fuck this guy. Unless the Dems eventually gain enough power to either right the wrongs either through ousting a justice through an impeachment or add additional justices, pushing the court from 9 to 11 justices, then I guess we're in this new world where we just try to block anything and everything. It sucks, but I didn't ask for it to be like this, and wanting the Dems to be fair to Kavanaugh is just an example of bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. I blame the politicians for creating this Chicken vs. The Egg situation. We are the mere spectators. And I'm sure there are some Repubs that would be able to rightfully argue that this is more because of the Dems than the Repubs. Whatever. Don't really give a fuck who is at fault or who caused it. We all have to just live with this mess.
Same goes back to my prior days with voting for president. I've usually voted Dem but never had even a single problem with Reagan, GHB or even GWB until his later years when I didn't like some of his decisions regarding the Iraq War. Still, I always believed these guys had the best interests of the nation in mind, even when I didn't like one of their policies. I'm still amazed by what I witnessed by the opposition to Obama, and I think that opposition and the negative fuel for that opposition is very much what created the disgusting mess and Trumpism we are seeing today. I blame these fucking guys in charge. I'm just so sick of this shit.
I'm fine with Kavanaugh getting onto SCOTUS. I was fine with the last guy, too, and the last guy and the last guy and the last guy (and gals...to be fair). I'm fine with all of them because I generally trust the vetting process. What I'm not fine with is Kavanaugh getting onto SCOTUS after the bullshit that was perpetrated against Obama regarding Garland. So now we have this war that can't really end. I'd lie, cheat and steal to keep this guy off the court if I had the power to do so. That's modern day politics. It sucks but it is what it is. Until that wrong is righted, I support any and all Dem efforts to deny that person his seat just out of my sense of fairness and justice. Fuck this guy. Unless the Dems eventually gain enough power to either right the wrongs either through ousting a justice through an impeachment or add additional justices, pushing the court from 9 to 11 justices, then I guess we're in this new world where we just try to block anything and everything. It sucks, but I didn't ask for it to be like this, and wanting the Dems to be fair to Kavanaugh is just an example of bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. I blame the politicians for creating this Chicken vs. The Egg situation. We are the mere spectators. And I'm sure there are some Repubs that would be able to rightfully argue that this is more because of the Dems than the Repubs. Whatever. Don't really give a fuck who is at fault or who caused it. We all have to just live with this mess.
Same goes back to my prior days with voting for president. I've usually voted Dem but never had even a single problem with Reagan, GHB or even GWB until his later years when I didn't like some of his decisions regarding the Iraq War. Still, I always believed these guys had the best interests of the nation in mind, even when I didn't like one of their policies. I'm still amazed by what I witnessed by the opposition to Obama, and I think that opposition and the negative fuel for that opposition is very much what created the disgusting mess and Trumpism we are seeing today. I blame these fucking guys in charge. I'm just so sick of this shit.