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Why do you suppose the Democrats were RESISTing any possible Supreme Court nomination, not only from Trump, but from every Republican president all the way back to Reagan and Clarence Thomas?
cool story mate. seems to me you are just trying to pretend Dems are the bad guys here. Meanwhile Rethugs STOLE a SCOTUS seat.
ya get that?
You want to pretend dems are just "against" things, but the reality is YOUR PARTY stole a SCOTUS seat.
YOUR side CHEATED and went against the public will. Your side has broken 250 years of fair play.
now you reap what you sow. Liberals are now playing by the same lack of rules Repubs have played by for the last 30 years. We are voting in those will play hardball and voting out those who want to play nice.
You guys won, from now on politics is going to mean and ugly just like repubs wanted it to be....... enjoy.
Why do you suppose the Democrats were RESISTing any possible Supreme Court nomination, not only from Trump, but from every Republican president all the way back to Reagan and Clarence Thomas?
The variety between the Republican appointees of the last 40 years is encyclopedic. Yet ALL were fought against by our friends of the southpaw persuasion with an intensity we haven't seen since, well, ever.
And the one thing nearly all have had in common, is that they were determined to interpret and apply the Constitution exactly as the people who wrote and ratified it, intended.
The one thing that's vital to support the liberal agenda of expanding government, taking over more and more authority to "help people", and transferring wealth from people who earned to to others who do nothing for it, is the act of "interpreting" the Constitution in ways different from the ones intended by the authors.
The Constitution was designed to create the Fed govt it describes, and to give that govt powers. And any power the Const didn't explicitly give it, was forbidden to the Fed, though states and lower govts could still exercise it if they wanted.
And among those forbidden powers, was the power to transfer wealth to people who did nothing to earn it, the power to mandate wage levels, the power to restrict guns and other weapons, the power to dictate what private individuals could do with their land and property, etc.
These forbidden powers are the central core of modern liberalism. They could amend the Constitution to give them to the Fed govt, but they know the people would never give them the 3/4 majority of the states' agreement, necessary to amendment for those things.
So their only alternative for enacting their power and keeping it, was to put judges on the Courts who would pretend the Constitution didn't mean what it says, that the Framers somehow meant the Fed to take over the setting of wage levels, restricting guns, buying votes with tax money etc., despite the document's specific prohibitions against its doing those things.
And now, for the first time since FDR put a majority of such dreamy-eyed wishful thinkers on the Federal courts during his four terms as President, we are about to see the Supreme Court finally return to a solid majority of justices who intend to rule according to what the Constitution actually says and means, instead of justices who claim they can find ways around it.
It doesn't even matter which candidate President Trump nominates to the Court, since all of them intend to uphold the text and meaning the Framers intended.
The liberals are screaming as never before. Because for the first time in living memory, they are about to lose their often-majority of justices in the highest court in the land. And thus lose their last bulwark against their agenda being (correctly) declared unconstitutional, one piece at a time.
The Democrats aren't afraid of any particular Trump candidate. They are afraid of the Constitution... and the likelihood of its finally being uphold and enforced.
It's always a hoot to hear the disgruntled Democrat losers act like they somehow had a right to dictate what happened in the Senate when they were in the minority.
The only things they had a "right" to, was what the American voters decided they had a right to.
After years of corrupt leftist government, the American people decided they didn't like the Democrat senators from their state, so they started voting them out. This put them in the minority, replacing them with a Republican majority.
The Constitution states that the President appoints Supreme Court justices with advice and consent from the Senate. But it carefully leaves to the Senate, what form that consent (if any) will take. The Senate decides its own methods... according to whoever the people decide to put in a majority. And it did. What they did was completely constitutional - a fact the liberal losers have no end of trouble getting their heads around.
The Democrats blew it. Maybe if they had tried to run things the way the American people liked, those people would have trusted them with the privilege of controlling hearings on appointees. But the people decided not to trust them, and booted them out instead.
Elections have consequences.
You lost. Get over it. And stop trying to pretend you "deserved" any more than you got - to be turfed out of every majority in the Federal government. With all the loss of control that entails. It's what the American people decided they wanted. Don't like it? Complain to them. And maybe try treating them a little better, so they won't fire you next time.
The only things they had a "right" to, was what the American voters decided they had a right to.
Hmm, yet another subject the liberals are afraid to talk about.
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