Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
8 Justices is now enough for the DC Appeals Court. For the GOP that is. If Reid nukes the Republican filibuster with a rule change to allow a Senate vote on the 3 highly qualified Obama appointees, Chuck Grassley says: “Go ahead.....There are a lot more Scalias and Thomases that we’d love to put on the bench”...... Is this blackmail or extortion, or both? Well, we do know the GOP is run like the mob.
Scalia and Thomas were in fact allowed to have a vote in the Senate by Democrats, and they were confirmed. That makes no difference to Republicans. The fact is the GOP wants nothing but Scalias and Thomases on every court in the country. Whether they ever win the Presidency again or not.
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So they will just have to win some elections other in gerrymandered districts in the House. I don't think the threat holds water right now. The electorate is going in a different direction from the past 35 years.
by trkingmomoe on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 3:13am
And we have every reason to believe that if the Democrats used the filibuster like the Republicans, then the Republicans would've already nuked the filibuster. They don't need no stinkin' precedent to do so in the future, either.
by Verified Atheist on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 8:27am
Absolutely accurate.
And they would just love it if half the Fed judge positions were not filled (due to Democrats 'being restrained and following tradition') when in their fantasies the GOP wins the Oval Office in 2016.
by NCD on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 9:09am
Not for nuttin', the "Nucular Option" (ya gotta say it like a Repugnant) was their invention...
by jollyroger on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 10:02am
As much fun as it is to make fun of Republicans, I think we can credit our very own "nucular" physicist Jimmy Carter for the invention of that particular pronunciation.
Edit to add: it appears that we can blame Republicans if we want to, as Eisenhower used this pronunciation himself.
by Verified Atheist on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 11:01am
Probably much older than Ike. In Edwin O'Connor's 1956 Irish-American saga, The Last Hurrah, someone tells a joke: If a priest says "nucular," he's just a diocesan, if he says "nuclear," he must be a Jesuit.
by Donal on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 11:43am
Wow! That really chafes my grits (since Jimmy Carter's name has come up)...I had previously proposed a constitutional amendment (prompted by W's mispronunciation) to the effect that no one might be elected president who could not pronounce "nuclear"...Carter I can grok, he being disadvantaged by a Georgia birth, but Ike??!!!
by jollyroger on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 11:45am