From People for the American Way:
WASHINGTON — In response to Mitch McConnell’s threat to break the Senate’s rules yet again in order to expedite GOP efforts to confirm as many of Donald Trump’s nominees as possible, People For the American Way Executive Vice President Marge Baker issued the following statement:
“There’s literally no one in the world with less credibility to accuse Democrats of obstructing the confirmation process than Mitch McConnell. His latest effort to break the Senate’s rules is a naked power grab based on lies and distortions. By attempting to speed up Republicans’ confirmation machine, Senator McConnell is trying to ensure that nominees to lifetime seats on the federal bench receive as little scrutiny as possible. That’s not because of Democratic obstruction—the Senate has confirmed almost the same number of district court nominees for Donald Trump as it did for President Obama, and far more circuit court nominees. It’s because time and again these nominees have been shown to be embarrassingly unfit. But Senator McConnell’s answer isn’t to find better nominees; it’s just to make sure there’s less transparency for the entire process.
“Judicial nominees, if confirmed, serve for life. And several of the nominees awaiting votes have frighteningly extreme records when it comes to opposing reproductive freedom, attacking the rights of LGBTQ people, undermining voting rights, and enabling torture. Rushing these nominees through the process would be profoundly irresponsible.”
McConnell comes up for reelection in 2020.
If the Democrats don’t prioritize his defeat then they aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit as a political party.
McConnell supports Trump even though the most recent polls indicate that Trump’s electability stands at 31%.
Which means that 2 out of every 3 Americans will not vote for him.
The 69% of voters who are against Trump will either vote for the Democratic candidate or they will stay home.
Now comes Jennifer Rubin, Rick Wilson, Joe Scarborough and those of their ilk to tell us that the Democrats could nominate the “wrong” candidate and “lose the election” to Trump.
Which is to be expected from the likes of Rubin, Wilson, Scarborough and the other “moderate” Republicans (which McConnell is not) who facilitated Trump’s election.
Now these fools and idiots find themselves politically homeless.
These party-less, political nomads claim that they will never vote for Trump for any reason. (Unlike McConnell who will enthusiastically cast a vote for Trump.)
The “moderates” are searching for an “acceptable” Democratic candidate to throw their support and money behind and eventually vote for in the general election.
Enter the Capitalist, neo-liberal, warmonger “Uncle” Joe Biden for president.
The “moderates” tell us that what we need is consensus building, bipartisanship and comity.
Bunk!
If Joe Biden is acceptable to the oligarchs, the plutocrats, and the wandering, party-less Conservatives, then anyone to the Left of Attila the Hun should run for the exits.
Biden represents the old-thinking that has lead us into the wilderness by creating the serious political, economic and foreign policy problems that plague us today.
Those are the conditions that opened the door for a Trump presidency and for Biden’s “good friend” Mitch McConnell to become the tyrant that he is as the leader of the Senate.
Swing for the fences.