fellow Americans, it's a fight worth the fighting, win or lose. imo

I forget the Bork details. Google is your friend.

Not holding my breath.
I think the majority of them have the Kompromat weighing heavily on their souls.

we'd take her in a minute today because she was moderate on abortion issues

Six republicans voted with the Dems.
We had 52 in the senate.
I don’t see the same thing happening.
Shit!

famous for firing Watergate's special prosecutor in the Saturday Night Massacre after two superiors refused and resigned. A court ruled that Bork's firing of Archibald Cox was an illegal action. Those 6 Republicans then knew he wasn't SCOTUS materian, but Republicans have been pretending ever since that the refusal to confirm Bork was unjust and due to partisan malice.

but with Myers, it was clearly a vanity choice of a person wholly unqualified, and she graciously withdrew after a short time. i don't remember her ever having a hearing. that was way back in the naughts and there was possibly a republican or 2 who would not have voted to confirm. ah, the good ol' days when the president was just a buffoon being puppeteered by a slimy Cheney and setting off the endless war. republicans have evolved and now are engaged in steering us off the cliff into annihilation at the behest of. of donald fucking trump?!

Her meetings with Republican Senators were an unmitigated disaster. She knew nothing about just about everything.

and some Republicans voted against him while some Democrats voted for him. In Myers case it was the GOP who both had severe problems with her qualifications and feared she was squishy on abortion who sunk her.

We had a dem majority.
Having a problem hoping for moral republicans to say no to Kavanaugh.

The rules were different then, requiring 60 votes for confirmation. Mitch McConnell changed that rule last your so that Gorsuch could get confirmed. So in the past, an element of bipartisanship was required, which is no longer the case.

they have no respect, not for their constituents, not for their Democratic colleagues, not for the rule of law. i hate republicans.

In one of the first three chapters the author asserts that Mitch McConnell has been taking donations from Russians or entities associated with the Russian oligarchs for two decades. So you can reach your own conclusions about how the Republicans feel about the U.S. rule of law.

that most of the republicans in congress must be as compromised and owned by russia as the president.

they make me wish i believed in hell.

When Republicans came back from their recent visit to Russia and were singing from the Putin songbook it was heart stopping.

If we can ever vote in overwhelming numbers and regain control of our government I hope that the Dems will move to add two more justices to the SCOTUS and begin the great reversal.

if the truth about 2016 comes about and trump is delegitimized i'd like to see gorsuch (and kavanaugh) removed on that basis. thomas is corrupt so deepsix him. but absent all that, raising the size of the court i think would be a good move.

were the chief financial deputies of the RNC and we know those two are no saints (mobs, Russian money, etc.)

It's a nest of fascists through and through, imo. And I'm only up to chapter 3.

Trump, no doubt, learned how to be buddies with mobsters from his father who did business with them in Brooklyn. So mobsters and oligarchs are his peers, familiars and associates. He's way more comfortable with their strong arm mentality than with our representative form of government.

think of another procedural obstacle for tomorrow as well..

when the Rs were in the minority. No unanimous consent for anything, any day.

in other words, not much has changed, we have little control over a fascist majority.

We can't have Trump ram through any others.

No business after 2pm, period, until we have the majority back. Then end that rule.

Enact a new rule: kick McConnell in the nuts to keep the Senate working after 2.