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Old 10-05-2018, 05:57 PM   #3385
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: We are all Slave now.

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Originally Posted by Adder View Post
A variant is, "if the Dems hadn't fillibustered Gorsuch, they could do so now, when it would really count."

As though McConnell would have respected this one either.
Republicans were always going to be able to put a conservative on the Court for this seat. Once Kavanaugh was shown to be a liar with an injudicious temperament and a history of treating women poorly, they had a choice about whether to find another conservative, or to stay the course with him. For many of them, I think the fact that Kavanaugh is a liar was a plus, because it showed that he wasn't going to let archaic notions of personal integrity get in the way of changing the law to make it more conservative, a la David Souter. For others, they didn't really care about him, but took his side when things got polarized because his sense of grievance at being attacked by the left is at the end of the day the essence of conservatism. For still others, they surely had reservations but did not want to stick their necks out on an issue so important to McConnell, Trump, and the people who vote in Republican primaries.
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