PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: nddons on November 09, 2016, 01:50:14 AM
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Well, I guess the GOP Senate wasn't so stupid after all for not confirming Merrick Garland, huh Kristin?
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Mitch McConnell looks brilliant where that is concerned.
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Mitch McConnell looks brilliant where that is concerned.
I'm glad the Garland vote was withheld, but using McConnell and brilliant in the same sentence is a stretch....
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That ended up being a smart move. What's even better is that the Republicans maintained control of the Senate so now they won't have to nominate someone that can get confirmed by a Democratic Senate.
I've said since the beginning that Trump's list of SCOTUS nominees was a guide and that he may not choose one from the list, but rather someone who held similar views. He'll need to nominate someone as conservative as Scalia to keep the balance.
The question will be how many other seats will he get to fill?
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I've said since the beginning that Trump's list of SCOTUS nominees was a guide and that he may not choose one from the list, but rather someone who held similar views. He'll need to nominate someone as conservative as Scalia to keep the balance.
The question will be how many other seats will he get to fill?
Trump has stated publicly, several times that he will appoint justices in the Scalia mold.
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Trump has stated publicly, several times that he will appoint justices in the Scalia mold.
Like everything else he's said during the campaign, he gave himself an out. Now that he has been elected, it will be up to him to actually do it. If he wants to reach out to conservatives like he said he did last night in his speech, then this will be one way to do it.
I have hope that he'll do it. Until he proves otherwise, he deserves a fair shake.
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So Kristin............comments? Hello?
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So Kristin............comments? Hello?
Must be our consoling snowflakes....
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I'm glad the Garland vote was withheld, but using McConnell and brilliant in the same sentence is a stretch....
Yes. BUT. On this issue he did very well!
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Yes. BUT. On this issue he did very well!
Yes he did. As my grandfather used to say....even a blind sow finds an acorn once in a while.
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Yes he did. As my grandfather used to say....even a blind sow finds an acorn once in a while.
Yes.
And that blind squirrel found a heck of an important acorn.
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Yes.
And that blind squirrel found a heck of an important acorn.
He was a farmer who didn't raise squirrels....but your point is well taken.
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Well, I guess the GOP Senate wasn't so stupid after all for not confirming Merrick Garland, huh Kristin?
McDonnell rolled the dice on this and won. Still believe it was poor governance. The election wasn't a blowout, and the make-up of the House and Senate didn't change all that much. Public sentiment can change on a dime. No doubt the President-elect fed off a pretty wide spread feeling of discontent. How they handle the aftermath will make a huge difference two to four years from now. If things do not change, all those dis-affected people may just decide to switch sides. It is easy to be critical, it's much harder to actually accomplish things.
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Garland was very anti Second Amendment. The media tried to hide that fact, but that is why he wasn't confirmed by the Senate.
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McDonnell rolled the dice on this and won. Still believe it was poor governance. The election wasn't a blowout, and the make-up of the House and Senate didn't change all that much. Public sentiment can change on a dime. No doubt the President-elect fed off a pretty wide spread feeling of discontent. How they handle the aftermath will make a huge difference two to four years from now. If things do not change, all those dis-affected people may just decide to switch sides. It is easy to be critical, it's much harder to actually accomplish things.
Would it have been poor governance by the Democrats had they won the Senate to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" for SCOTUS nominees in the same way they did for the federal judicial appointments?
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Would it have been poor governance by the Democrats had they won the Senate to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" for SCOTUS nominees in the same way they did for the federal judicial appointments?
Yes.