McConnell: NRA will give marching orders on SCOTUS nominee

[rubato]

"the world's oldest and greatest democracy"?

The UK didn't?

Iceland, you mean.

http://www.viking.ucla.edu/publications ... lthing.pdf



yrs,
rubato

[Scooter]

Whatever. It was more an expression of how Americans see themselves rather an attempt at historical accuracy.

[MajGenl.Meade]

The Republican position is (or appears to be) completely insane. Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face!

Their duty, as I see it, is to advise and consent (or not consent) - it is not "to do nothing at all".
Let there be hearings and let's find out what kind of chap this is and whether he'd make a good Supreme. Then let 'em vote on it, up or down, defending their choice as is fit.

On one level, they appear to be willing to deny Obama the judge in the full knowledge that Hillary will get next up. That's just dumb, dumb, dumb. (Or they are stuck on whistling past the graveyard). This warrants them losing my vote and a lot of others, come November

On another, they are being petulant pricks, blithering bores, stonewalling stinkers and that's the votes gone again.

Of course, if Trump is the candidate, the votes have already gone so perhaps they think it just does not matter?

[Gob]

Whatever. It was more an expression of how Americans see themselves rather an attempt at historical accuracy.

Gotcha, neat.

[wesw]

a Canadian told a Welshman how americans feel about themselves....., hilarity ensued....


sue, I don t need anyone to tell me what I think of Obama. I have determined that all on my own.

I think that HE is the Manchurian candidate. I question his MOTIVES, not his abilities.

I think that he believes that HE knows best...., for everyone. (sorta like you, huh?)

I think that he and his wife hate America and want it to dissolve.

so I oppose him in EVERYTHING.

[Scooter]

I can't come up with a blessed thing to show that Garland opposes the 2nd Amendment because it was a big fat lie.

Translated that for you.

[Big RR]

wes--Dissolve? Into what?

FWIW, you can hate what a politician in office does without questioning their commitment to their country; differing minds can disagree. I've felt that way many times about a what a lot of those in office do (or don't do), but I try to leave the rhetoric out of it. And just because someone does things you disagree with 9even vehemently), that does not mean everything they do is wrong.

[Scooter]

I oppose him in EVERYTHING.

wes has just stated that it would be better if Osama bin Laden were still alive and roaming free to plot terrorist attacks against the U.S. and other countries.

[Lord Jim]

Apparently wes also doesn't like the Thanksgiving Day Proclamations...

[wesw]

yeah, and why the hell did he pardon those darned turkeys?

does he hate starving children?

perhaps I exaggerate...., but not much.

it is possible that he is as incompetent as trump says he is, I suppose, but I find it unlikely.

perhaps he is just too darned vain to admit he is wrong....., likely true, but that doesn t explain enough.....

so I question his political motives.

RR, I don t know..., into anarchy... into smaller nations...., into suffering for our sins?

I don t know, but I don t like what I ve seen from him, I don t like it at all.

[wesw]

....now that I think about it I didn t think people were dumb enough to call so many people Nazis and bigots and racists and stupid, but many seemingly intelligent people have done just that, here of late....

maybe I overestimate people, but many others underestimate them, I d rather err on the side of assuming competence rather than the reverse....

[Bicycle Bill]

I d rather err on the side of assuming competence rather than the reverse....

In yourself or in others?

-"BB"-

[wesw]

....and just for general purposes....

scooter, jim, I used the present tense of oppose, so your nit-picking is wrong too!

I never said that I HAVE OPPOSED him in everything, I said that I OPPOSE him in everything....

[wesw]

....in others , BB, I am but a shadow of my former self......

[Bicycle Bill]

....in others , BB, I am but a shadow of my former self......

Does that mean that, under the bright glare of the light of reason, you would go away?

-"BB"-

[Scooter]

I am still unable to come up with anything that shows Garland opposes the 2nd amendment, because that a big fat lie, and the fire in my pants has barbecued my ass.

FTFY

I liked the following so much that it's going to be my sig for a while.

[Scooter]

Does that mean that, under the bright glare of the light of reason, you would go away?

-"BB"-

Oh don't say that, we need our comic relief here. For a while we had quad, the village idiot stepped up to the plate for a while, but his material is getting stale. Without wes there would be no reason to keep spitting up coffee onto our keyboards.

[Burning Petard]

"I don t know..., into anarchy... into smaller nations...., into suffering for our sins?"

I thought that was the goal of the GOP--to reduce the federal government until it was small enough to drown it in a bathtub.

snailgate

[wesw]

don t get me started on the GOP.....

[wesw]

scooter, you have written some horrible things in this forum....

....but nothing compares to you making us look at mitch mc Connell everytime you post.....