RGB the best is not to come?
Submitted by EdMass on Mon, 01/07/2019 - 3:32pm
Well there is this
Ginsburg misses Supreme Court arguments for the 1st time
But a few days ago there was this from Mother Jones
What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong
Fans defended her choice not to retire under President Obama. Now it may be too late.
Oh My...
Comments
“You don’t get to tell me when to quit.”
I was torn this morning when I heard that she missed opening arguments. She should have retired - she gets to retire when she wants to. Besides. Wasn't Hillary pretty much a sure thing to replace Obama?
From essay link -
But -
I'm still torn.
Obama could have made the democrats force McConnell to give Garland a vote through some procedural haggling, but he didn't and they didn't and now we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Or Obama could have put Gorsuch on the court through a recess appointment for 18 months. (Case for it)
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
What?!?!
I did my civic duty on November 8, 2016. I voted against Hillary Clinton.
Yeah I thought that would catch some eyes
Anyone who thinks that people owed their votes to Hillary has missed the point of what voting stands for. But then the libertarian candidate received more votes than Stein did, but he is blameless. Boy talk about your misogyny. Blaming the woman again. Sheesh.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
100% of the responsibility lies with RBG,
who gambled with the wellbeing of the nation -- even the planet -- and said, "Let it Ride!"
she's undoubtedly a very remarkable individual of extraordinary determination and talent, but she was ethically wrong to keep that seat. should have retired in 2014.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
The SCOTUS has had a Republican majority for many years.
The Constitution of the United States specifies that those appointed to the federal bench serve for life. And suddenly bringing that up makes me a member of a cult? I remember when Mother Jones was much more objective that this vapid pile of crap reveals it to be.
The bigger issue is that, very frequently, Justices vote as a block, very much aligned with their respective parties and sometimes the Justices appointed by Clinton and Obama vote with the rightist Justices. They do not decide cases on their merits.
And, yes, despite all the claims of seventeen dimensional chess, Obama was either amateur hour or diabolical. I'm not psychic enough to know which, but it was one or the other.
Blaming people who voted for Jill Stein or stayed home is. as always, one of the favorite lunacies of rightist Democrats. That dog won't hunt, though. I'm certain that more people voted Republican and Justice than voted Green. Green votes do not belong to Democrats any more than Republican or Justice votes. It's stupid; it's old and it's boring. Move on.
That whole idea that executive has the last say
in supreme nominations pretty much got blown out of the water with oh bummer. It has shown how the power brokers keep control. And they say the executive branch has too much power? All the dithering does nothing to stop the steamrolling of the oligarch against democracy.
Yet, George W. Bush seemed to have all the power he needed.
He even vetoed Lily Ledbetter. It's Democrats, the supposedly smarter group, that seems to go all ineffectual when they are in power, then talk left when they are not.
not to get all nit-picky, but it should be RBG
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Face it...
Obama was hopeless. He could have dug his heels in (walking shoes?) for his last nominee (see Trump stubborness), but he just pretty much walked away from the situtation. Rolled out of town into a book deal worth millions, with an archive-free 'shrine' ruining a historic park in Chicago.
What a guy.
And civic duty to vote for Clinton??????? Bleh!
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
It's the civic duty of politicians, who, unlike most voters,
live off the public purse, to give us something worth voting for. Two parties that have fixed it so that newer parties cannot thrive and who are barely distinguishable from each other are the ones to blame, not ordinary citizens victimized by both of the oldest political parties.
Agreed HAW
Civic duty. Wonder who is empowered to hold their feet to the fire? Voting doesn't seem to work. I would like to see all politicians' intended votes posted online in real time, with enough of a delay before the actual vote takes place, so we the PEEPS can weigh in. Holy moley. 85% of constituents dis-agree with their reps' position. HA! Hot water in a cold shower, hell to pay. That almost sounds like a representative democracy.
It's the civic duty of politicians, who, unlike most voters,
not only live off the public purse, but get rich via public "service," to give voters something worth voting for. Two parties that have fixed it so that newer parties cannot thrive and that are barely distinguishable from each other on economic issues are the ones to blame, not ordinary citizens victimized by both of the oldest political parties.