Dems’ words coming back to haunt them
Senate Republicans ‘go nuclear’ with Gorsuch confirmation
The U.S. Senate yesterday killed the filibuster on a straight party-line vote, paving the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court this afternoon.
The Democrats made it sound like the death of the filibuster was the end of American democracy, which is ridiculous. As one senator put it so eloquently: “We need to call out these filibusters for what they are — naked attempts to nullify the results of the last presidential election.”
This solon is making sense. Keep talking, senator.
“(The president) has done what the Constitution requires him to do — nominated highly qualified people to fill open vacancies on the federal bench. If (members of the other party) continue to filibuster these highly qualified nominees for no reason other than to nullify the president’s constitutional authority, then senators not only have the right to change the filibuster rules, senators have a duty to change the filibuster rules.”
Do you know who said that? Elizabeth Warren, the fake Indian. Of course, she didn’t say it yesterday, she said it in November 2013, when the Democrats did away with the filibuster for lower-court judicial nominees, to strip the veto power from the then-Republican minority.
At the time the Democrats strong-armed the change through, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, then the minority leader, warned the then-majority that their high-handed actions would come back to haunt them.
Be careful what you wish for, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer.
The Democrats are also apoplectic about the “stolen seat.” It was supposed to go to yet another Harvard namby-pamby named Garland Merrick, or Merrick Garland, or something, but Mitch McConnell blocked consideration. Because it was, after all, an election year, and as another distinguished senator said, no new justices should be appointed in a presidential election year.
“It would be our pragmatic conclusion,” this statesman opined, “that once the political season is underway, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over.”
Who said that? U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, back in 1992. Gore Vidal once said the four sweetest words in the English language are, “I told you so.” Especially if you can use their own words to tell them so. So let’s end with the fake Indian’s exhortation back in 2013 to end the filibuster once and for all.
“We cannot turn our back on the Constitution. We cannot abdicate our oath of office. We have a responsibility to protect and defend our democracy ...”For once, the fake Indian was right.