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Same. I don't even recognize the GOP anymore. Not under Trump.
Republican Congressman who I used to respect just stand to the side in fear of losing their jobs and just let Trump do and say whatever. Only those retiring have the gall to say anything. It's sickening.
Trump truly did attempt to hijack the republican party, and he had enough simple-minded voters supporting him to do it.
Same here as well. If I were being honest, I probably always aligned more with local and state Republicans than the national GOP. Still, watching the GOP turn into the Party of Trump has been pretty disappointing.
The question is will the Democrats decide to behave rationally, maturely and responsibly for a change, or are they going to continue with their hysterical shrieking routine.
i really dont see kavanaugh getting more than 54 votes given the current atmosphere in the senate. he might get 55 or 56, but i think that is the limit. and it wouldnt matter who trump nominated, the democrats would block anyone, even thurgood marshall, if he were around for trump to nominate.
More right wing nonsense. Giving any room to the President was ended by the Republicans with Merrick Garland. So the question is simply can the Republicans produce 50 votes. We shall see. But he has a voluminous record which may well prevent his confirmation.
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i really dont see kavanaugh getting more than 54 votes given the current atmosphere in the senate. he might get 55 or 56, but i think that is the limit. and it wouldnt matter who trump nominated, the democrats would block anyone, even thurgood marshall, if he were around for trump to nominate.
If Kavanaugh gets over 61 votes, that is a clear signal that the Democrat's #resistance is running out of steam just before the 2018 midterm elections.
It kind of makes sense. Two years of this has been beyond enough, especially for the Democrats in Congress. Trying to keep everyone in this state of perpetual hysteria is surely exhausting, not only for them, but for the American people as well.
61 votes. If Kavanaugh gets that or more, the #resistance is over. Mark it down.
Good. That puts you on the outs with the AFL-CIO, NAACP, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, GLAAD, Sierra Club, and on and on.
Are you a theocratic, homophobic, xenophobic, corporate, sexist, racist shill for RW nutjob
I've been trying to do some research on this SCOTUS pick and haven't ran across anything that states he is or supports what you are claiming. Just wondering where you got all that info ?
IMO, the democrats in the senate have so politicized the process and are so viciously, anti-Trump, they don't fully realize how petty and mean-spirited they appear.
IMO, the democrats in the senate have so politicized the process and are so viciously, anti-Trump, they don't fully realize how petty and mean-spirited they appear.
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I guess it was different when the Right Wingers refused to bring a proposed justice in for hearings and a vote? Just saying.....
This vote will be 50-49. One has to wonder what promise the dotard made to Kavanaugh. Maybe it simply was that he would nominate him if he promised to continue to vote along the lines of the President being above the law and therefore unlikely to support an impeachment vote. That was the position of Kavanugh with regard to Clinton. Donald knows he is going to be charged (probably as a Russian Agent) and will need every voice he can find to keep him from serving a life sentence...or worse (from his perspective).
Statists are so stupid--they think libertarians WANT a seat at the table. They also think libertarianism is a political ideology instead of a moral one, and think (L)ibertarian and (l)ibertarian are synonyms.
Someone said (I think it may have been Ben Franklin) that if you don't have a place at the table, you're dinner.
A corollary was a statement by Leon Trotsky when someone told him they were not interested in politics, and didn't want to have anything to do with it. Trotsky replied, 'you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.'
If Kavanaugh gets over 61 votes, that is a clear signal that the Democrat's #resistance is running out of steam just before the 2018 midterm elections.
It kind of makes sense. Two years of this has been beyond enough, especially for the Democrats in Congress. Trying to keep everyone in this state of perpetual hysteria is surely exhausting, not only for them, but for the American people as well.
61 votes. If Kavanaugh gets that or more, the #resistance is over. Mark it down.
i am not disagreeing with you, but like i said, i dont see him getting more than 54-55 votes.
For the record, I have recently begun to identify strongly with the Democratic party.
Also, for the record I am fundamentally opposed to abortion on moral and ethical grounds, I think it is murder. There may be cases where an abortion is justified, as in when certain death of the child and/or the mother is expected without intervention.
My sympathies hearken back to the days of FDR when generally most people in both parties thought abortion was wrong and also that Democrats came to see government could be a positive force for good.
I believe strongly in national health care (Medicare for all would be sweet) and social security and I don't think (from what I have read) that Kavanaugh is a big threat to those programs.
I see that the recent tax policies based upon 'trickle down' economics are damaging to the economic well being of the ordinary working people, and the wealth and earnings gap is getting much worse. Kavanaugh and I may disagree on this.
As for gay marriage, as far as I am concerned the state should refrain from religious consideration in this matter, a state sanctioned marriage does not have to be recognized by any church and churches can not tell the state which people can be married and get the tax rate. Personally I feel that marriage between two committed people is better than sleeping around, it is safer and contributes to financial stability. I think this is a state issue.
I don't fit easily into any box, but I align more closely to conservative Democrats than any other, I could possibly be called a Blue Dog Democrat by some, but I am not sure myself if this would be correct.
A lot of them lost in Nov. 2010 due to Obamacare, which was rammed through with no bipartisan support, and the stimulus, which was passed with the reluctant help of blue dogs.
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