Me neither, though the fact that Gorsuch was merely reestablishing the status quo as opposed to a strong conservative nominee upending the status quo could make the difference.
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US PoliERA 2018 |OT6| An Unmitigated Disaster
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Me neither, though the fact that Gorsuch was merely reestablishing the status quo as opposed to a strong conservative nominee upending the status quo could make the difference.
This vote seems nasty. They are holding it during the recess of them grilling the two guys. Jordan was even taunting them with the vote before they voted.
It's mostly designed to gum up the works rather than produce a specific outcome.
He either gives them info they can pass on to Trump or he denies and they try to impeach Rosenstein. No good outcome I can see.
Didn't T S Elliot already say this wasn't the case
Somebody tried this play and it was slapped down
If we're going to not act and not do something out of fear that the GOP may also do something, then we might as well pack it up and go home.
Because that would involve destroying the fillibuster first which Mitch will not do.
Nothing and they definitely fucking would if they could, which is why "we gotta act civil" just means that we fucking lose every time.
They don't have the votes to do that without completely destroying more senate filibuster rules.
Mueller will be fired not with a bang but with a whimper.
This is how the US ends.
Eh. All of that information would still be readily available, though. Unless Trump someone manages to seize and destroy everything.
It was a joke. He said "T.S. Eliot," who I assume is not the T.S. Eliot but has the same name, and I parodied two lines from T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men."
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper."
Y'all need to get some poetry in your lives.
Oh you.
T. s. Ellis, excuse me
Pls tell me this is a joke
That's the thing that kills me. Whenever he tweets, he talks as if he isn't the president. "Why doesn't the person in charge do something different?" when he's actually the person in charge will never not be wild to me.
ned_ballad Question, if Dems win in 2020 and the FCC re-instates Title II (Which let them preserve Net Neutrality), what are the odds of that being shot down by the SCOTUS?
Are they straight-up gonna say the FCC doesn't have the authority to regulate broadband of any kind?
Are they straight-up gonna say the FCC doesn't have the authority to regulate broadband of any kind?
Not sure if i should break it for you but.. he is the Portuguese president
It is more of a threat. It is a non-binding measure saying that if Rosenstein don't comply with subpoenas that were issued or something they might try to hold him in contempt or try to impeach him by July 6th.
Which, as we learned today in the OT thread, is actually in South America.
Who knew?!
Can someone show me the democrat target seats in November? I tried using realclearpolitics but it was so unclear lol.
ahh, only quickly glanced at the flag, my mistake
goddamit. now i suck even more
Probably. This SCOTUS is so crazy pro-business it hurts.
The whole rosenstein thing is a joke. I only saw the 1 clip about subpoenas on phone calls and emails. The guy wants to call rosenstein a liar based on statements made to a third party and neither the third party or the person who is said to have made the statement are present. Then he claims he knows these people. Like that is evidence. What a clownfuckery.
Correct me if wrong, but McConnell had no issue confirming Kennedy in February 1988 during Reagan's "Lame Duck" year, right? In fact I think he was even nominated when there was less than a year remaining before the election.
I hope you won't mind my answering, too.
Possibly. NN has been previously affirmed by the DC Court of Appeals, the composition of which hasn't changed since Trump took office; they'd likely rule in its favor again. The issue has never been presented to the SCOTUS.
You do know there's a pretty good chance that Kennedy would've ruled against it, right?
I seriously just laughed incredibly loud. When things are down.. it's the little things that make you laugh and enjoy your days.
They took a break to vote on forcing them to give them documents. I thought it was supposed to be fast so i dont know how long it will last.
Mitch is not striving for consistency.
They made a naked power play and he cooked up some excuse to justify it. Our media is either full of naifs who believe that Republicans argue in good faith or witting accomplices who have to show #bothsides, so they ran with it.
I wish someone from the left would call him out on this crap though.
Bring out the voting records and show them on the floor for all to see how much of a hypocrite he is. In fact they should have done that 2+ years ago.
It's cute when they act so hurt and offended when their hypocrisy is pointed out to them.
What isn't cute is that it actually works to disarm their critics when it's so clearly disingenuous.
Perhaps, but I'm wondering on what legal grounds it'd be argued on. ISPs used the arbitrary and capricious argument before and failed in court against the FCC, with the SCOUTS apparently laying out specific guidelines in the past on how to win a case on those merits.
I'm wondering if NN is too broad of an issue to even be brought up to the SCOTUS. The issue was whether or not the FCC has the right to regulate internet services as title II, which they do, since that was what a court ruled before.
What would the reasoning for the FCC not being allowed to regulate the internet under Title II even look like?
Ah. That must be the famous "Hand of God" that the South Americans are so famous for, then.
Considering that the Dems are incapable of stalling anything the only thing they can do is repeatedly point out the hypocrisy. What else is there to debate?
They might haha
I don't really know, though. Seems like everything is up in the air.
I hear him but do both. Make them hold their hypocrisy and argue the issues.
The FCC already has authority to regulate all other media so I don't think opponents of NN would have a lot of ground to say they lack authority only for the internet.
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