Joan Walsh definitely got her Irish up for this brutal take-down of Yurtle over at The Nation.
Subtitle:
“Mitch McConnell obstructed not only Obama’s Supreme Court pick but his effort to alert voters about Russian election hacking—inextricably tying these issues together.”
Joan first explains that Chuckie Schumer tried to make nice with Mousselini until he started acting like a dick, as drumpf is wont to do. Now the minority leader and firebrands like Liz Warren have determined that since it looks increasingly like Putin was giving the menace a reach-a-round during the campaign maybe we should just put an ixnay on that whole onfirmationcay thang:
“You can bet that if the shoe was on the other foot—and a Democratic President was under investigation by the FBI—that Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances,” Schumer said in a statement. “After all, they stopped a president who wasn’t under investigation from filling a seat with nearly a year left in his presidency.”
Indeed. And the man most responsible for blocking President Obama’s Supreme Court pick also prevented Obama from coordinating a bipartisan warning to the American people about Russian hacking. The Gorsuch confirmation and the Russian hacking issue are inextricably tied—because Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell personally tied them.”
Joan then explains how the classy Yurtle made a statement saying he would deny President Obama his right to pick Scalia’s replacement before the old curmudgeon had even dropped to room temperature.
While Obama, Schumer, Bernie, Hillary and everyone else not utterly bereft of a human soul were sending condolences to Scalia’s widow, children and grandchildren McConnell was perfecting being an asshole….
“This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” he declared, shockingly.”
Joan goes on to lay out that, you know, since Hair Hitler and his motley crew of gropenfollowers are under FBI investigation for none dare call it treason maybe this is not the time for them to be deciding the future of Jurisprudence here in the good ole USA.
“As even Republicans begin to acknowledge the cloud over the Trump administration, congressional Democrats should argue that a compromised president should not be able to appoint a Supreme Court justice who might sit on that bench for 40 years. Especially since McConnell blocked the moderate Merrick Garland, age 64 to Gorsuch’s 49, who was chosen by Obama specifically to win GOP support. It didn’t work. Republicans argued last year that “eight is enough” on the Supreme Court (some even threatened to keep Clinton from making a pick for the coming four years). Democrats should officially agree, for now.”
You tell ‘em Joan, now is not the time to give in on...er...justice.