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President Barack Obama: "A sterling record. A deep respect for the judiciary’s role. An understanding of the way the world really works. That’s what I’m considering as I fulfill my constitutional duty to appoint a judge to our highest court." Mitch McConnell: "Someone not nominated by the black guy."

It is official, and it is sickening in its contempt for the office of the President, and the man currently serving in that office. Has anyone heard any reaction from Carper or Coons?

Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office.

He shot and killed six people on Saturday. Do you know his name? It is Jason Dalton. I had to look it up. Basically, we don't know squat about the guy other than the fact that he was an Uber driver. Can it be because he is "lone wolf" white guy? I mean, even if you are the kind of person who resists seeing things through the prism of race, you have to admit that we'd know a whole hell of a lot more about this guy by now if his name was موقع الشخصي لميد.

Vox has a nice chart and list of all the Democratic Party's superdelegates. The point of this post is not for Sanders' supporters to harass these people, or to suggest that superdelegates are a problem. As we saw in 2008, superdelegates all eventually went along with the pledged delegate leader (Obama), including Hillary herself (who as a Senator was also a superdelegate). But I thought it would be neat to know who they are.

Cracks in the GOP Wall: Both Illinois Senator Mark Kirk and Maine Senator Susan Collins say the President has a duty to nominate a replacement for the late Justice Scalia and it is the duty of the Senate to conduct hearings and to vote up or down. But Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Rob Portman of Ohio have to act unconstitutionally, and it may cost them their seats, according to new polling from PPP:

-Strong majorities of voters—58/35 in Ohio and 57/40 in Pennsylvania—think that the vacant seat on the Supreme Court should be filled this year. What’s particularly noteworthy about those numbers—and concerning for Portman and Toomey—is how emphatic the support for approving a replacement is among independent voters. In Ohio they think a new Justice should be named this year 70/24 and in Pennsylvania it’s 60/37. Those independent voters are going to make the difference in these tight Senate races, and they have no tolerance for obstructionism on the vacancy. -Voters are particularly angry about Senators taking the stance that they’re not going to approve anyone before even knowing who President Obama decides to put forward. By a 76/20 spread in Pennsylvania and a 74/18 one in Ohio, voters think the Senate should wait to see who is nominated to the Court before deciding whether or not to confirm that person. Toomey and Portman are out of line even with their own party base on that one—Republicans in Pennsylvania think 67/27 and in Ohio think 63/32 that the Senate should at least give President Obama’s choice a chance before deciding whether or not to confirm them.

Listen to this audio obtained by comedian and radio host Harry Shearer. It starts around the 20 minute mark. If the chummy ass kissing of Trump doesn't make you sick, just wait for the part when Trump asks for "easy questions", and gets them. [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/248201243" params="color=ff5500" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]

That should have been the be subject line of Copeland's angry email. It would have been more honest. Instead he went with:

GOP Statement On Democrats Proposed 'Temporary' Gas Tax Increase

When I read that headline I was left wondering if Copeland's statement was going to be the typical "Grrr!! TAXES BAD!!" nonsense the issues from the ass end of the DEGOP every once in a while, or was it going to offer some Republican alternative? Needless to say, I wasn't wondering for long.