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2016-12-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Frank G 2016-12-25 13:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 OK, the senators broke tradition but not the law. So isn't it libel to accuse them of theft with malice and reckless disregard for the truth?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-25 13:46|| 2016-12-25 13:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The genius of the founders, checks and balances. For a party whose president circumvented the Congress for years with executive order overreach, and had Harry Reid stymie budgets over and over to now protest, makes irony as a term seem so inadequate! Trump won and saved, at least for a time, the hopes for the Republic. You lost. Man up and own it!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-12-25 13:51|| 2016-12-25 13:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't forget the Czars - a direct attack on the Advise and Consent duties of Congress. What will happen to them after January 20th?

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-12-25 14:17|| 2016-12-25 14:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Beginning to think the only reason the Donks will ever win again is so crap like this article/viewpoint will go away - for awhile.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-25 14:27|| 2016-12-25 14:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump has the chance to stack the SCOTUS with real Constitutionalists, not Affirmative Action Identity Group tokens. That's what this election meant. The NYT is cringing because they helped bring in DJT by their lies and partisanship

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-25 15:20|| 2016-12-25 15:20|| Front Page Top

#6 And here you have the mind of pseudo-homo sinister in all its glory.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-25 15:29|| 2016-12-25 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 "The Senate's duty is advice and consent. They advised President Obama that they would not consent to approving any candidates in the months leading up to the election, following a precedent set by some previous Senates. At the time the Democrats warned that the candidates proposed by President Clinton, and pushed through by the Democrat-dominated Senate, would be much more liberal. Everything that makes you unhappy over the next four to eight years, my dear Times editorialist, is due to Hillary blowing the election"

WHAT TW SAID!

Posted by Barbara 2016-12-25 16:08|| 2016-12-25 16:08|| Front Page Top

#8 How many of those Electoral votes were delivered by the same-sex marriage decree of the present SCOTUS? Maybe if the likes of the editorial board of the NYT wasn't for a more Peoples Democratic Republic means of coercing via SCOTUS the populous instead of their consent via the states, we may have seen a different outcome.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-25 16:19|| 2016-12-25 16:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Frank G,

You hit the nail right on the head. Scalia's seat is open, and Ginsburg's will be soon - I suspect she is more ill than we have been told, and she was holding on so ~~Malificent~~ Hilary could name her replacement. The Democrats must be literally in fear of the idea of a six to three Conservative (or at least nominally so) SCOTUS for years to come.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-12-25 16:58|| 2016-12-25 16:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Gloves are off assholes.

Posted by Iblis 2016-12-25 17:56|| 2016-12-25 17:56|| Front Page Top

#11 The Dems have been pleading with Ginsburg to retire so that Obola could name her successor for years. They failed and now DJT will, most likely, get to fill the slot.

We need a better word to describe the evil, arrogant, ironic, hypocritical attitude that is embodied in the current Demon party.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-25 19:49|| 2016-12-25 19:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Just how much self pity and whining can you cram into one story?

The demoncrats need to sit down and have a nice cup of shut the fuck up.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-25 20:08|| 2016-12-25 20:08|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 The Dems have been pleading with Ginsburg to retire so that Obola could name her successor for years. They failed and now DJT will, most likely, get to fill the slot.

And there is indeed, the irony: Madame Justice Ginsburg KNEW better, she like so many others KNEW ~~Malificent~~ Hilary was going to be President, and she would give the first woman President the opportunity to make her first SCOTUS nomination.

Schadenfreude: It's what's for dinner.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-12-25 21:00|| 2016-12-25 21:00|| Front Page Top

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