Correct. That was an important part of the Garland block. Because Republicans controlled the Senate, they never had to schedule hearings so they never technically even had to filibuster. Thus their talking point today "we didn't filibuster Obama's nominees" which of course is completely in bad faith because not holding hearings is even worse than a filibuster.

It's really scary that there are so many people like you in the world who honestly think politics is a game of just doing worse than the people before, with a huge shrug.

Here is a crazy ****ing idea. The Dems were wrong in 2013 so maybe let's not exacerbate their error by expanding it to the highest court in the land?

Also, "it's not in the constitution" has to be single dumbest defense of something in politics. It is normally reserved for the weak-minded ultra right of the party who are simply too stupid to understand historical context.

If you want to find a really stupid person look to the nearest originalists or textualist.

Because every single R will vote for going nuclear, that's why. humility in politics lolololololol

obama could've put garland on the court for a year, wonder why he chose not to. Playing nice when your opponent is willing to cheat is a great strategy to lose.

Anyone recognize the book Bannon is reading?

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/stat...37126811693056

Sen. McConnell was asked today if he would commit to a rule saying no Supreme Court nominees during a Presidential election year, since that was his logic for denying Merrick Garland even a hearing. He would not.

Let's not overlook this beautiful triple flip-flop...

I think it looks like a little bit like a Field Notes notebook (https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/expedition).

Could be but looks a little big for one and I haven't seen that color offered for a while.

Good job.

presumably this

"The real story is I'm guilty and I got caught but I don't want anybody else to know about it."

Philip Roth on Trump.

https://twitter.com/paul1kirby/statu...26101621874688

"The real story is that our law enforcement agencies have hard evidence of me, the president, committing high crimes!"

What's the consensus on Pence/Russia?

According to Mike Pence, there is no such thing as Russia.

I think Cuban may have nailed it. He's absolutely right that trump is too stupid and lazy to orchestrate a conspiracy.

i'm trying to imagine a guy who works in the government somehow, and he's pretty dumb so russian intelligence agents compromise him and make him act in ways that benefit them, but he's not interested in russia he just wants to get more rich. that's ok, right?

It is a MOST American idea that if an operation is committing a crime, the hired guns are responsible and not the OWNER, in this case Trump. Bridgegate? Christie goes free, aides go to prison. Torture scandals? Soldiers go to prison, higher-ups who ordered the torture untouched. The idea is that the owners get ALL the benefits of production, while the workers take on ALL of the liabilities. This has also been called "golden parachutes" or "income inequality." But it leads to a dual system: one system of rules for labor, and a totally different set of rules and penalties for capital (owners). Jeff Sessions commits perjury, he keeps his job. A normal person would be charged with perjury, a felony, and would face up to five years in prison. But Sessions is an "elite." Other elites don't want to bring down the normal penalties on him, because they want to continue to enjoy their elite privilege.

Mike Pence has a firm policy on Russia. He does not talk to them unless his wife is present.

Also outside of the white-collar crime world, that's not how it works at all. If you hire a guy to kill your wife, you get charged accordingly. It doesn't matter that you didn't buy the gun, you didn't drive the car, you didn't put the body in a woodchipper.

I have to laugh when Trump staff point to Detroit and shout look! jobs!

A local paper said last week that their and GM's efforts have created or retained 130 jobs. Whoopty ****ing do.

The fact that John Yoo is a professor at Berkeley and Jay Bybee is a federal judge after they justified a torture program is bananas

That's a great point. Academia (and journalism) certainly has its own elite bias which is arguably far stronger than its so-called liberal bias.

this is an actual headline on foxnews.com right now...



HITLER – JUST LIKE US?
Propaganda photos show dictator with kids, deer

linking to a SUN article. I dont even know what to say

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04...baby-deer.html