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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
... for dying?
I mean, yeah. I wish she stepped down in 2012. But not being able to predict... all of this isn't her fault.
I'm pretty sick of the "well, the GOP is flagrantly evil, so I hate the Dems for not being omnipotent and omniscient enough to stop them."
Edited by Larkmarn on Sep 22nd 2020 at 11:30:34 AM
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I hate her decision to not retire when Obama was first elected, but I don't have any hate for her, and certainly not because of Republicans' sins.
She fought death itself to protect us these last four years. The greatest thing we can do to honor her is finish the fight, that dawn may come in mere months, and not another four years.
Edited by TheAirman on Sep 22nd 2020 at 10:35:31 AM
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For not retiring when there was the opportunity for her to choose her replacement, she was what 82 or so?.
Her hubris has screwed the country entirely for decades and probably invalidated all the work she ever did. One step forward, 50 steps back because of it. ESPECIALLY when it comes to Women's rights...
Edited by Memers on Sep 22nd 2020 at 8:35:01 AM
Seriously, hindsight is 2020. When Obama was elected there was no reason to assume the followup would be full blown fascism, and she took the integrity and impartiality of the Court seriously. Playing party politics when she wasn't in immediate danger of death would be a betrayal of what she believed in.
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Correction, I was thinking of the House. The Senate didn't flip until 2015. But the Republicans still had the power to block appointments through the fillibuster, because that wasn't removed until the Republicans did so themselves to brute force Kavanaugh through.
Edited by Wryte on Sep 22nd 2020 at 8:47:23 AM
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But never with a 60 seat majority. Unless you intend to blame them for not removing the filibuster?
Yep, honestly Democrats could probably just close their eyes and only pass all the bills sitting on Mitch's desk and it'd would still be a fairly productive Congress.
Pat Toomey will vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
I think he's the last swing state Senator (not that he was gonna be a no).

For him to have not gotten a judge, the following would have had to have happened:
This was a foregone conclusion, at least we can admit it now rather than calling "stating the inevitable" doomsaying.
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