02-03-2017, 11:58 AM
(02-03-2017, 11:51 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-03-2017, 03:10 AM)Galen Wrote:(02-02-2017, 04:27 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Good, if you oppose every attempt by the political state to ameliorate the problems of the people. Good if you want an establishment of religion in the USA. Good, if you believe every loony in town should be permitted to have a loaded machine gun.
Horrible, and he should not be permitted to serve on the Court. And if the Repugs pull the nuc-ya-lar option, I say, go ahead, make my day! We're supposed to believe they won't also use it the NEXT time the Democrats filibuster one of Drump's reactionary appointments? I have some land on the Moon to sell you then. OK, then the GOPPERS won't be able to filibuster the next Democratic president's choices either.
You do realize that you got here because Harry Reid did exactly that a year or two ago. Karma is a bitch. If the Dems are smart then they will accept they will lose this battle and keep the filibuster.
The issue is not the filibuster. It's the stonewalling that allowed Trump to appoint anyone to this seat. The Dems have no choice: go along, and admit they are effectively neutered, or go down fighting. They are already weak enough. Conceding anything to the opposition is a sign of impending death, just when they need to rebuild.
Exactly. Do we have an opposition party, or not? If not, we have conceded all power to Trump and his minions.
That seems to me that we have lost our democracy and become a defacto fascist state.
We never needed Scalia in the first place. He was an outrageous thief of the peoples' interests in all his decisions. We don't need another Scalia. If the Democrats concede to another Scalia, they have conceded all power to the right wing of this country. We never needed the idiot Reagan who appointed Scalia; we never needed Reaganomics. That was an outrageous corporate takeover; completely unnecessary and stupid. We need to throw out the bums, and start moving forward again by the 2020s after 40 years of crap and stupidity.