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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)10/05/2018 8:44:54 am PDT

re: #289 Blind Frog Belly White

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when one party refuses to allow confirmation of dozens of judiclal nominations for years, hoping to pack the judiciary when he has the chance.

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when the Senate Majority leader breaks with all precedent to hold a Supreme Court seat open for a year to deny the appointment to a President elected by a clear majority of Americans?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when that same Majority Leader breaks with all precedent to eliminate the 60 vote bar for Supreme Court nominations.

What’s the ‘moderate position’ for women when the President announces he will only appoint Supreme Court justices who will vote to take away their bodily autonomy.

What’s the ‘moderate’ position to take when a Supreme Court nominee has given what appears to be demonstrably false testimony?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when the same Senators who demanded the production of all the writings of Democratic SCOTUS nominees withhold 97% of the writings of a Republican SCOTUS nominee?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when the nominee attacks an entire political party, spins conspiracy theories, and belligerently sneers in the face of Senators?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when the President says that angry partisan performance is exactly what he wanted to see?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when a nominee is credibly accused of sexual assault, and the Senate Majority refuses to investigate?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when the Senate majority and the White House limit the FBI to a sham investigation that willfully refuses to interview witnesses the alleged victims say can confirm their stories?

What’s the ‘moderate position’ when that nominee tells easily debunked lies to that same committee on national television, but gets confirmed anyway?

The ‘moderate position’, Chuck, is for the President to withdraw a nominee who can’t get 60 votes, and instead nominate someone who can. The ‘moderate position’ is to oppose the confirmation of that nominee, not on ideological grounds, but on the question of character.

Not to nitpick because I agree with your point but SCOTUS has always been a simple majority. What was changed was the 60 votes to 50 for cloture. Which is what was done for Gorsuch just last year. Reid did change it for district judges a couple years prior. But I agree with you. Anyhow. What pisses me off are these so called moderate and or people who try to claim they’re above partisan politics because they proclaim not to be biased in favor of the Dems/Repubs. You are a partisan in your own way.