Liberal groups knock Schumer's handling of Kavanaugh nomination
Source: Politico
By BURGESS EVERETT and ELANA SCHOR 09/05/2018 06:00 AM EDT
Progressive groups have a blunt assessment of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s work to defeat Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination: “You are failing us.”
Thirteen liberal groups have signed on to a letter, delivered Wednesday morning, that pans the minority leader’s strategy of stopping President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. They say that “the Democratic Party’s progressive base expects nothing less than all-out resistance to Trump’s dangerous agenda,” and question whether Schumer is delivering it.
But Schumer is grappling with multiple challenges: a base that wants him to stop Kavanaugh even though Republicans can confirm him without Democratic help, as well as a brutal midterm map and vulnerable incumbents who are under pressure to support Trump’s pick. Senate Democrats have largely united behind Schumer’s strategy of demanding documents and disrupting the Judiciary Committee’s hearing. But liberal groups say it’s not enough.
“Your job as Senate Democratic leader is to lead your caucus in complete opposition to Trump’s attempted Supreme Court takeover and to defend everyone threatened by a Trump Supreme Court,” the letter reads. “But unbelievably, nearly two dozen Democrats have still not come out against Kavanaugh. ... That is not the leadership we need.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/kavanaugh-schumer-liberal-groups-807061
Among the signees are CREDO Mobile, Indivisible, Democracy for America, and Daily Kos. MoveOn and Demand Justice, groups trying to defeat Kavanaugh, did not sign on.
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Liberals, and others, have to learn that one has to be pragmatic - yes, I know, many hate this term - to win and then to make changes.
As I've posted elsewhere, both Orrin Hatch - when Bader Ginsburg was confirmed - and Lindsey Graham - when Sotomayor was confirmed - acknowledged that a President has the prerogative to nominate whomever he wants.
Yes, we have the problem of Garlnad but at this point there is not much we can do. We can drag it but the final vote is theirs. Worse, we may appear as vindictive, petulant crowd instead of a mature one worthy of governing.
inflates their coffers.
Remember everyone warning to vote for HRC or the repubs would get more supreme court picks?
Remember everyone pleading for people to vote in the 2010 and 2014 midterms so we could keep the House and Senate?
Crowdsource discovery, there's one simple thing they could do *yesterday*.
Against the rules?
