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1 minute ago, The Governor said:

Yeah, she got her second shot last week. I did also.

 

They had 6 new cases last week and her school is really tiny. Parents are still sending their sick kids to school. Like really people?

I'd blame that on Reagan too.

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2 minutes ago, wnyguy said:

I'd blame that on Reagan too.

I’m actually a great example of Reagan’s policies gone bad.

 

From 6th grade on, I was an exceptional test taker. I rode that all the way through college. 
 

Now look at me.

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2 minutes ago, The Governor said:

I’m actually a great example of Reagan’s policies gone bad.

 

From 6th grade on, I was an exceptional test taker. I rode that all the way through college. 
 

Now look at me.

LOL Funny is funny. Thumbs up.

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5 hours ago, Tenhigh said:

I would love to find a news organization in this country that strives for accurate reporting without a partisan slant in either direction, and shuns editorialization.  Ironically the closest think I have found to date is the BBC.  

Are you talking about news on TV?

 

Washington Journal dude. It’s the only straight news left.

 

After you get the news, you get to listen to all of the mutants that call in. I highly recommend it.

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On 4/15/2021 at 12:41 PM, B-Man said:

 

Hahahahahaha.

 

 

Well apparently today's theatrics were just to try and pacify the extremists.

 

Pelosi Says She Has “No Plans” to Bring Nadler’s Bill to Expand Supreme Court by Four Seats to House Floor (VIDEO)

What she means is she doesn't have the votes to pass it.

 

 

 

Not buying it, unless they think it would give away their agenda and unravel their moderate support. 
 

there is no way the don’t  desperately want it. The flipping the courts would prevent some of their federalization initiatives...   

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16 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

Not buying it, unless they think it would give away their agenda and unravel their moderate support. 
 

there is no way the don’t  desperately want it. The flipping the courts would prevent some of their federalization initiatives...   

 

 

I agree.

 

I think that my other post on Page #3 addresses some of this.

 

On 4/15/2021 at 12:01 PM, B-Man said:

Signs of Democrat desperation as legislators bypass Biden's commission and plan to introduce court-packing legislation today

By Thomas Lifson

 

 

Why have a group of congressional Democrats symbolically flipped the bird to "the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States" that President Biden created by executive order only six days ago?   Andrea Widburg has an excellent blog on these pages today on the announcement and its place in the broader plan of the Dems to alter the institutional framework of governance so as to ensure permanent Democrat majorities.

 

That group of purported "experts" appointed by Biden's executive order was stacked to likely yield a result congenial to expanding the Court so as to hand a rubber-stamp majority to the Dems, as Bloomberg reported:

 

The commission skews left, with progressives holding a 3:1 ratio to conservatives, according the Ilya Shapiro, of the libertarian Cato Institute think tank.

 

The panel also leans heavily on professors, with just a handful of members whose experience isn't primarily in legal or political academics. Moreover, approximately 80% are graduates or otherwise affiliated with just two schools — Harvard and Yale.

 

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So what's up?  Why not wait 180 days for the fig leaf presidential commission to bolster the flimsy case?

 

I can think of two possible reasons, which are not mutually exclusive.

 

One is the incredible narrowness of the Democrats' control of Congress.  The Senate is tied 50-50, so only Kamala Harris's tiebreaker vote as V.P. gives the Dems the ability to pass legislation — if the filibuster is not invoked or if it is repealed.  In the 435-member House, Nancy Pelosi can only lose two Democrat votes if she wants to pass legislation, so narrow is her majority.

 

The prospects of holding on to the support of all Democrat senators and House members 180 days from now (i.e., half a year closer to the 2022 election) are not good, considering the escalating crisis on the border, which is a matter of grave and ongoing concern across the country.  Add in the possibility of a military crisis overseas as Russia masses troops near Ukraine and China makes escalating threats against Taiwan and expansionist moves in the South China Sea.

 

So it might be that the Democrats jumping the gun see this particular moment as possibly their last chance to remove the Supreme Court as a check on their ability to govern tyrannically.

 

The second possibility relates to an already established pattern of Democrat legislative legerdemain: abuse of the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster, which Senators Manchin and Sinema both swear they will protect.  

 

 

All in all, the Democrats seem desperate, as if they see their last chance to hold onto power possibly slipping from their grasp unless they change what amounts to the rules of the game right away, while they still have the narrowest possible majority and a senescent president still holding onto office.

 

Were it not for the fully propagandistic role of the major media supporting them, the public would already have turned against them with fury for the incompetence of Biden's first three months in office and the unleashing of racialist mobs.  With public approval of the media roughly at the level of used car salesmen, that media cofferdam will not hold against the public through November 2022.  It is now or never, I believe a growing number of Democrats believe.

 

They are going for broke.  It's our job to make sure they fail and do go broke, politically.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/signs_of_dem_desperation_as_legislators_bypass_bidens_commission_and_plan_to_introduce_courtpacking_legislation_today.html

 

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If they try and jam 4 more liberal judges on the bench, the January 6th mostly peaceful demonstration will really turn into an insurrection.  And they won't be able to blame Trump this time.

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PACKING THE COURT, THEN AND NOW: 

 

FDR’s court-packing efforts didn’t fail.

 

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2021/04/21/packing-the-court-then-and-now/

 

He won by intimidating the sitting justices. But today’s Democrats are unlikely to have the same success.

 

That won’t stop them trying, though.

 

 

 

RelatedMorning Consult: Opposition to court-packing near 2:1 … and growing. 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/04/21/morning-consult-opposition-to-court-packing-near-21-and-growing-n384858

 

“The months-long campaign to pack the court has been an utter flop, even with the party base.

 

Democrats’ support for the idea doesn’t even get to a majority.”

 

 

But do Democrats care what voters want?

 

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50 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

PACKING THE COURT, THEN AND NOW: 

 

FDR’s court-packing efforts didn’t fail.

 

https://www.discoursemagazine.com/politics/2021/04/21/packing-the-court-then-and-now/

 

He won by intimidating the sitting justices. But today’s Democrats are unlikely to have the same success.

 

That won’t stop them trying, though.

 

 

 

RelatedMorning Consult: Opposition to court-packing near 2:1 … and growing. 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/04/21/morning-consult-opposition-to-court-packing-near-21-and-growing-n384858

 

“The months-long campaign to pack the court has been an utter flop, even with the party base.

 

Democrats’ support for the idea doesn’t even get to a majority.”

 

 

But do Democrats care what voters want?

 

Manchin and Sinema do.  And just 1 of the 2 is all that's needed.

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Senate Democrats bailing out of court packing?

 

 

Looks like some Senate Democrats can read the writing on the wall, even if their progressive activists cannot. Over the past few days, they’re getting a lot less enthusiastic about court-packing, to the point of avoiding the topic altogether as voters repeatedly tell pollsters they’re not interested in changing the number of Supreme Court justices. National Review’s John McCormack got a firm no from one of Arizona’s senators to the idea.

 

 

No, the other Arizona senator: Mark Kelly.

 

On Tuesday, a few other Senate Democrats sounded very reluctant to discuss the proposal, let alone support it, when McCormack first started asking:

 

“I’m not persuaded yet, but, you know, we’ll just have to see,” said Senator Tim Kaine (D., Va.). His fellow Virginian, Senator Mark Warner, said the Court-packing bill is “not where I’m headed.”

 

Senator Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.) said of Markey’s bill: “It’s not something I’m currently advocating for.”

 

“It’s not my issue for today,” said Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

 

“I’ll take a look at it, but it’s not something that I’ve been pushing for,” said Senator Gary Peters (D., Mich.) …

 

“I don’t support that,” New Hampshire senator Jeanne Shaheen said of Markey’s bill. Asked if any Supreme Court rulings could get her to support it, Shaheen replied: “I can’t speculate on that.”

 

Why so shy? Polling shows that Americans don’t want an attack on the institution of the judiciary, not even after months of campaigning on that idea.

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/04/22/senate-dems-bailing-out-of-court-packing-n385160

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Failing the "packing" Leftists will now try to pressure Breyer into retiring.

 

I guess all that RBG worship wasn't really a good idea.

 

 

 

I assume the other 25% said........who?

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Democrats' court-packing threats may be backfiring

by Thomas Lifson

 

Jonathan Turley, one of the last honest and principled liberals in the public arena, suggests that the Democrats' threats to bully the justices are backfiring and that the Court is sending strong warning signals to them. In a post to his own website yesterday, the George Washington University law professor wrote: Chief Justice John Roberts and his colleagues seem to be sending a message that the Court is not so rigidly ideological as Democratic members and activists suggest. He believes that a series of unanimous court decisions as the current term ends "seem[s] to be sending a message that the Court is not so rigidly

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/dems_courtpacking_threats_may_be_backfiring.html

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On 4/19/2021 at 11:07 AM, Doc said:

If they try and jam 4 more liberal judges on the bench, the January 6th mostly peaceful demonstration will really turn into an insurrection.  And they won't be able to blame Trump this time.

 

Yeah they can.

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