Dems Suck. Coons is the worst
Brian says:
February 8, 2017 at 12:25 pmAccording to NRO, 9 Dems have said NO to SCOTUS filibuster… enough to kill…
Coons – DE Blue
Blumenthal- CT Blue
Manchin – WV Red
Durbin – IL Blue
Heitkamp – ND Red
McCaskill – MO Red
Tester – MT Red
Donnelly- IN Red
Shaheen – NH Blue
It was his turn.
Next time there’s a key vote, Carper will cross the aisle.
pathetic.
You wrote this for LiberalGeek
huh?
FYI- Report out there that Diane Feinstein was very impressed during her meeting with Gorsuch..
McConnell outright stole a Supreme Court seat and the Democrats are so in the grips of Stockholm Syndrom that they thank him for it.
I called Coon’s office asking/demanding that he filibuster this abomination. If this is true it’s an inexcusable betrayal of his constituency that is unforgivable and unconscionable.
Representative John Kowalko
Nemski thinks that I show up to defend Delaware Dems. I don’t. Just the ones that are unfairly maligned. This is totally fair and Coons has no excuse if this is true.
Wow, you really pander to the loony lefties… You should be focusing on the States budget shortfall (which you helped create) and be suggesting cuts in order to balance the budget.
I called Coon’s office asking/demanding that he filibuster this abomination. If this is true it’s an inexcusable betrayal of his constituency that is unforgivable and unconscionable.
Representative John Kowalko
@Tom: Haven’t you moved to Pennsylvania yet?
Rep. Kowalko, unlike most Delaware Dems, has consistently called for higher fees on the Fortune 500 for their incorporation here. But I bet you knew that, because you do so much to keep up on the issues, right Tommy boy?
Coons could take some lessons from Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach.
After Trump threatened to “destroy the career” of a Texas legislator who proposed ending civil forfeiture, Leach responded thusly on Twitter and Facebook:
If the Democrats do filibuster Judge Gorsuch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will simply invoke the so-called ‘nuclear option,’ and he will be confirmed anyway. Senator Coons action preserves the filibuster rule for Supreme Court nominees.
But there’s more: when you look at the nine Democrat senators, you are looking at a list of people who face re-election in red states, and blue state senators who do not face re-election in 2018. This is an obvious set-up! The Democrats don’t want to see the GOP invoke the nuclear option, but don’t want to be penalized for not filibustering the nomination. Chuck Schumer needed those Democrats to do this, and got them.
Just a bit more information: all of the red-state Democrats on the list are up for re-election in 2018.
Another conservative who thinks he’s a genius because he’s figured out Google.
“If the Democrats do filibuster Judge Gorsuch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will simply invoke the so-called ‘nuclear option,’ and he will be confirmed anyway. Senator Coons action preserves the filibuster rule for Supreme Court nominees.”
This is the most asinine pile of bullshit argument I’ve heard for not filibustering. If McConnell can change the rules now, he can also change them the next time a SCOTUS nomination comes up. Coons hasn’t preserved shit.
What he has done is normalize the idea that a president is only elected to exercise the powers of the office for three years. McConnell left a SCOTUS seat open for nearly a full year just so a Republican could nominate the next one. That Coons is apparently not infuriated enough by this to put his thumb in McConnell’s eye is infuriating to ME. And don’t think I won’t remember this in 2020.
Exactly. We can’t give any quarter to these Democrats who don’t understand the gravity of this situation. If you want to know how Trump got elected, but look at the Coons, Carpers, and Carneys of the world and ask – What what have they done for the Democratic brand identity?
Aurochs wrote:
So, then, what are you going to do? Is Senator Coons likely to be defeated in the Democratic primary in 2020? If he wins the primary, are you going to vote for the Republican in the general election?
Of course, the Democrats really can’t put their thumbs in Senator McConnell’s eye; if they try, they lose even more power. It’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face. If the Democrats did trigger the nuclear option by filibustering Judge Gorsuch, then President Trump wouldn’t have to consider the Democrats even a little bit should another Justice resign or pass away in the next four years.
No one can prove it yet, but I’d guess that Senator Coons, and the others, are doing this because Senator Schumer asked them to.
” the Democrats really can’t put their thumbs in Senator McConnell’s eye; if they try, they lose even more power. It’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face. If the Democrats did trigger the nuclear option by filibustering Judge Gorsuch, then President Trump wouldn’t have to consider the Democrats even a little bit should another Justice resign or pass away in the next four years.”
That craziness assumes the Dems still have status to lose AND that Trump will consider Democratic sentiment going forward. What rock have you been living under?
@jason: Do you really care what a conservative thinks? Do you really think it’s possible for the Democrats to “lose even more power”?
You’re being rope-a-doped.
“So, then, what are you going to do? Is Senator Coons likely to be defeated in the Democratic primary in 2020? If he wins the primary, are you going to vote for the Republican in the general election?”
I’ll take “the purpose of this blog” for $500, Trebek.
The people who write here do more than just write. Look around.
“If the Democrats did trigger the nuclear option by filibustering Judge Gorsuch, then President Trump wouldn’t have to consider the Democrats even a little bit should another Justice resign or pass away in the next four years.”
As if he has to now? Trump’s next nominee is likely to be even worse than Gorsuch anyway. He and McConnell can use the exact same plan then that they’re using now– claim that guy is a moderate bipartisan choice, then either watch the Dems put their name to him or call them obstructionist and force him through anyway by changing the rules.
Again, Coons hasn’t preserved shit.
Aurochs wrote:
Well, perhaps so; it’s certainly a valid argument. It assumes that Mr Trump will get another Supreme Court vacancy to fill, which might not happen.
But what I see is that the Senate Democrats are now going full bore against every one of President Trump’s nominees, and then losing cloture on mostly party-line votes, when it takes only 51 votes to invoke cloture on cabinet nominees.
Yet, when it comes to the really big nomination, which would require 60 votes to invoke cloture, all of a sudden we are seeing — if the report turns out to be true — nine Democrats willing to vote for cloture. Why would this happen, if there wasn’t some other consideration happening here?
As I said, it is my guess that Chuck Schumer went looking for these nine Democrats to get this done. Really, nothing else makes sense.
If the Dems are going to force McTrudle to kill the filibuster (thus completing Bannon’s coup), The should do it middle of next year, so it is still fresh in everyone’s mind during the mid-terms. If it is done too early, people will forget (remember, most voters arent politically engaged and have short ass memories)