09-24-2020, 05:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-24-2020, 03:47 PM by Eric the Green.)
(09-24-2020, 02:19 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Democrats need to get a Senate majority so that they can filibuster any Trump hack as a nominee for Associate Justice between January 3 and January 21, 2021. The optimal solution would be for the President to nominate some moderate (as if moderation is any way a part of the President's character) in return for a binding commitment by Democrats to not pack the Court. It is not up to any Party to change the rules of politics at its convenience -- unless that Party is to become a "leading force" (the language that recognized Communist Parties as dominant in some countries until 1989. .We already know Trump will nominate an arch conservative approved by the Federalist Society, and the choice is between two women. One is being considered because she is from Florida and could help Trump win the election if appointed. So now Justices are considered as pawns in the election just like the choice of a vice-president often is.
The issue now is how we get to January 3rd. McConnell and Trump will try to get this through before the election. Soon afterward, if Mark Kelly and possibly Rev. Warnock are certified winners in their special elections, they could be seated in November and make it harder to confirm Trump's lackey. Before then, the Democrats will have to use whatever delaying tactics they can muster. There is much more important business before the congress now than giving Trump his kangeroo court.
Quote:I am not sure of whether the lame-duck Vice-President or the incoming one is the President of the Senate between January 3 and January 21. Kamala Harris may have cause to not rush abandoning a Senate seat until January 21.
Kamala Harris will be president of the Senate on January 3rd, and I assume Gavin Newsom will have someone appointed CA senator on that date. Unless Trump usurps power.
Quote:If the current Republican Party should die, then we might have the start of the 1T as another Era of Good Feelings before a big-tent Democratic Party becomes so unwieldy and itself splits, perhaps into something like Christian Democrats and Social Democrats as in Germany.
Democrats of all shades need to hope for this to happen before we talk again about 3rd parties and not voting for moderate and corporate Democrats.
Quote:We live in a borderline plutocracy, and when the economic elites believe that nothing matters except their power, indulgence, and gain (note the first initials and what those spell!) who cling to the idea that no human suffering can ever be in excess in stoking the power, indulgence, and gain of those elites (limited only by the fear of a proletarian revolution that would kill those elites upon success). Money does not simply talk in our system; it shouts!
Fortunately the Democrats are raising more money now; the people are donating more.