Senate Democrats Whine, Plead All Sunday Night Ahead of Barrett Confirmation Vote
Here’s a great laugh for your Monday!
|
Listen to this article
|
After the Senate procedural vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Sunday, the Senate Democrats stayed on the floor to whine, cry, and plead not to confirm her to the Supreme Court.
The final confirmation vote will take place Monday night.
Oh, the Democrats puked their usual talking points: Barrett will overturn Obamacare, strip everyone of their healthcare, and invade every woman’s doctor’s office to make sure she isn’t committing infanticide.
Is there anyone else who can hyperbole better than Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer?
We’re fighting for American lives and freedoms.
The right to affordable health care.
To make your own private medical decisions.
To join a union.
To vote without impediments.
To love.
We will not stop fighting.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 26, 2020
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) sobbed, “The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance with this nomination!”
Carper snapped that the nomination and confirmation is a picture of “hypocrisy” because the coronavirus death toll is at 220,000 and the election is only days away.
Carper also alluded that Trump’s presidency is invalid because he “lost the popular vote” and the House “impeached him.”
We’re running out of time to prevent the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences of climate change. And Senate Republicans are wasting precious time rushing to confirm a climate denier to the #SCOTUS.
Ranking Member @SenatorCarper explains #WhatsAtStake: Our Future pic.twitter.com/t2wLEd0k4N
— EPW Democrats (@EPWDems) October 26, 2020
You guys, I cannot even or odd with this crap.
Conspiracy nut Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) claimed Barrett told them exactly how she would rule because it was impossible to miss since she said it “in ALL CAPS.” Uh…what?
The Republican Party platform says that Republican presidents will appoint judges to reverse Obamacare.
Judge Barrett “telegraphed how she would rule” on the case to overturn the ACA.
“How are we not supposed to notice this when you say this in ALL CAPS?” —@SenWhitehouse pic.twitter.com/fJEzFOT3uU
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) October 26, 2020
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said, “Americans are suffering!” The Senate should be “negotiating a real relief package!”
Blame Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, lady.
Americans are suffering.
We are reaching a third coronavirus peak.Yet “the weeks we should have dedicated to negotiating a real relief package have instead been spent rushing through the confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice.”
Watch Sen. @GillibrandNY lay it out pic.twitter.com/CCt6DCAK9K
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) October 26, 2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Republicans are stealing this SCOTUS seat!
“Senate Republicans have better things to do than pass a relief package…
Things like steal a Supreme Court seat.”
—@SenWarren explains WHY Senate Republicans are doing what they’re doing.
Democrats will not stop fighting. pic.twitter.com/aYPeMYJSZ8
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) October 26, 2020
Oh, look! Sen. Angus King (I-ME) using the new definition of court-packing!
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) speaking on the Senate floor tonight:
"I don't want to pack the court. I don't want to change the number. I don't want to have to do that, but if all of this rule-breaking is taking place, what does the majority expect? What do they expect?"
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) October 26, 2020
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Ron Coleman
Comments
Gilbrand – “Americans are suffering.
We are reaching a third coronavirus peak.”
Different areas of the country have been having their first of 3 separate 1st waves.
Yo Sen. Gillibrand. We aren’t suffering from coronavirus, we’re suffering from the state government’s shut down. It’s not the same thing.
On the birthday of Mrs. Bill Clinton!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Ah, you mean Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend’s wife.
If democrats don’t like it they can blame their selfish, miscalulating hero RGB who thought she would outlive Trump. She made her bet and she lost. Winner takes all.
With a tip of the hat to Harry Reid who did away with the filibuster for judges
Look, the Dems lost on the SCOTUS nomination. They let the Notorious RBG, Saint Ruth, remain on the court when she could have retired under Obama and most likely replaced by a liberal jurist. But, they did not and now they lost another seat on that panel. So what do they have left? The old standby; the Republicans will take away your rights, your money and your life. It is interesting that since 1900, and actually before that, it was the Democrats who took away people’s liberty and rights, their money and even their lives. Why does anyone listen to a thing that they say anymore?
RBG didn’t retire because Obama didn’t want to negotiate anything with the Senate or Congress. It’s 100% on him that they lost the seat.
While BHO bears some responsibility for not pushing for RBG to retire, the Dems controlled the Senate prior prior to 2011. It would have been a relatively simple matter to ratify a replacement for RBG prior to the Republican takeover of that body.
While that’s technically true, I don’t think Barry’s little braintrust thought they would lose the legislature so quickly.
I also think single issue voters lead to single-minded politicians that were too busy ramming through Obamacare to worry about anything else.
Not really. BHO had a private lunch at the WH w/RBG in 2013. He tried to persuade her to retire because he thought it was highly likely the GOP would gain control of the Senate in the upcoming midterm election. And BHO was 100% correct.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/09/25/the-quiet-lunch-that-could-have-altered-supreme-court-history/
“‘When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined President Barack Obama for lunch in his private dining room in July 2013, the White House sought to keep the event quiet — the meeting called for discretion,’ the New York Times reports…
He did, however, raise the looming 2014 midterm elections and how Democrats might lose control of the Senate. Implicit in that conversation was the concern motivating his lunch invitation — the possibility that if the Senate flipped, he would lose a chance to appoint a younger, liberal judge who could hold on to the seat for decades.”
I’d say the “blame” (from the Democrat Socialist perspective; I consider it incredibly good luck) falls on the two arrogant narcissists in a 50/50 split. RBG was a devout atheist. In the New Atheist strain of atheism; the kind of atheist that simply have to believe God exists, because they couldn’t direct such anger, hatred, and venom at something that doesn’t exist. So while it should be obvious to anyone that you can time your retirement, it never occurred to RBG that she couldn’t time her death.
A leftist is a jealous god, and thou shalt have no other gods before her.
On the other hand I think it’s “cute” that the NYT reports “[i]mplicit in that conversation was the concern motivating his lunch invitation.” Oh, implicit, was it. Earlier in the article the NYT uses the word “discretion.” This lunch invitation was about as discrete as whacking someone in the head with a 2×4. If Obama wanted to “build rapport” with RBG then he should have started as soon as he was sworn in on 20 January 2013. He should have invited all the justices in turn to the WH for private lunches. Instead he waited six months into his term and only invites RBG who, as the article at the link notes, was then the oldest justice on the court and who already twice had concer.
Could he have made it any more obvious exactly what he wanted form her? And recall Obama liked to brag about how highly he thought of himself and his ability to schmooze people into doing what he wanted. The hustle doesn’t work if you go on TV and brag about how you’re going to con some unsuspecting mark out of their life savings, then you invite the mark to lunch and try to con them out of their life savings.
RBG was a partisan hack, but she wasn’t nearly the gullible fool that Obama clearly thought she was.
The hubris both of them brought to that lunch table doomed the effort before anyone said a word to the other. Thank God.
Because you can fool some of the people all of the time. And they’ve got ’em.
Barrett should be sworn in tonight, immediately after her confirmation.
Vote at 7:30, swearing at 8:00, swearing in at 9:00.
LOL!
Leave a Comment