115th United States Congress

[Tyrath]

No I think he was talking about the part where they kept saying the ELECTED president of the US doesn't get to make a supreme court pick because theres only 9 (i think?) months left in his term.

[Greatguardian]

He may have been referring to refusing to hold confirmation hearings on a Justice during Obama's term.

Edit:too slow

[Aerin]

I'm honestly not sure Republican voters would see it as anything more than an "I win" button for them and think nothing more of it.

[Andalusian girls]

oh well then yeah not holding Senate hearings for a Justice for 9 months is totally analogous to taking away the right to vote

[Melena]

No I think he was talking about the part where they kept saying the ELECTED president of the US doesn't get to make a supreme court pick because theres only 9 (i think?) months left in his term.

Try 12 months. They held that shit for a year. Then again, one time driving Uber I had someone ask me my opinion on that, brought up a couple of Supreme Court Nominee's that went through with the sitting President had <6 months in office and actually tried to say that would never happen.

[archibaldcrane]

Garland was nominated March 16th, so just over 10 months remaining in Obama's term.

[Fiye]

I didn't know you liked McConnel AG. Ew gross.

[Deftscythe]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...79818364801025

The McConnel salt is gr8

"It's pretty obvious that our problem on health care was not the Democrats. We didn't have 50 Republicans."

I love watching his hand tap on the podium as the guy is talking.

"Can't believe I have to answer this question in public because that cheeto motherfucker can't put his phone down."

[Tyrath]

oh well then yeah not holding Senate hearings for a Justice for 9 months is totally analogous to taking away the right to vote

I mean their reasoning was basically that people's votes need to be heard and thats why we need to wait for the election. Meanwhile completely shitting on the people who voted for the sitting president.

[Ragnus]

all the cocksuckers in the world can't save her now

Thank you for making this reference so I didn't have to. <3

[Andalusian girls]

Fiye that's a level of memeing that is beyond me i'm afraid

i do think it fuckin spectacular that a fuckin tweet from Mike fuckin Huckabee has you all seeing a Gotterdamerung that would reverse two centuries of increasingly expansive franchise. no wonder you guys lose elections so often it is spectacular the contempt in which you hold the American people.

I mean their reasoning was basically that people's votes need to be heard and thats why we need to wait for the election. Meanwhile completely shitting on the people who voted for the sitting president.

a fair point, and why i opposed blueballing Garland, but if you really can't see the difference between that and, again, not figuratively, but literally, taking away the individual's right to vote for their Senators, and giving that right to party elites in state capitals, i honestly don't know what to say to convince you. it would be an unprecedented reduction of the franchise that would impact every single voter regardless of political affiliation and would strip away popular sovereignty for sake of enhanced party control, which in an age of tea parties and neoliberal shill! and insurgent swamp drains seems shall we say contrary to the prevalent winds.

[Deftscythe]

it is spectacular the contempt with which you hold the American people

Speaking solely for myself, my opinion of the American people got a whole hell of a lot lower when millions of them voted for a man who was on tape speaking enthusiastically about sexual assault.

[Tyrath]

a fair point, and why i opposed blueballing Garland, but if you really can't see the difference between that and, again, not figuratively, but literally, taking away the individual's right to vote for their Senators, and giving that right to party elites in state capitals, i honestly don't know what to say to convince you. it would be an unprecedented reduction of the franchise that would impact every single voter regardless of political affiliation and would strip away popular sovereignty for sake of enhanced party control, which in an age of tea parties and neoliberal shill! and insurgent swamp drains seems shall we say contrary to the prevalent winds.

I see the difference. But I'm not convinced the outrage will be as much bigger as is warranted.

[archibaldcrane]

Average California individual insurance premiums going up 12.5% in 2018 (or 3.3% increase if people shop around to the lowest-priced option in the same medal tier). My insurer Anthem is exiting the SoCal market, so I once again have to shop for a new plan. Fortunately there's 11 different insurer options in California (not in every area but many in Los Angeles) to choose from, but it's still a pain in the ass.

[archibaldcrane]

I also discovered that the "cost-sharing reductions" that Trump keeps threatening to not pay only apply to on-exchange Silver plans. If they aren't paid, Silver plan premiums will skyrocket, and the result will be that Silver plans will cost more than Gold plans, which is ridiculous and obviously upside-down.

[Talint]

Almost as if we should have some sort of universal health care so we can avoid shit scenarios like this.

Tyven was right. The latest Chapo is easily their best one since election day.

[Gredival]

uh did you just compare dispensing with the filibuster (which is a Senate procedural rule never provided for in the Constitution) for SCOTUS nominations (as the Democrats did for other federal appointments in 2013) to literally amending the Constitution so party elites can strip away the citizenry's right to vote for one of the branches of the federal government

look bud i know you took Hilldog's defeat hard and had to go away to that spa for a while but you can do better than this

No I compared the GOP's willingness to flout the rules for political gain when it comes to SCOTUS to the GOP's willingness to flout the rules for political gain when it comes to the Senate.

[Zealot]

Also Democrats sent McConnell a letter saying "here's what we're looking at for tax reform" and he announced today he's not seeking any bipartisan input.

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[archibaldcrane]

They're going to have to gut welfare programs to pay for this right?

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[Deftscythe]

They could always use money from the defense budghahahahahaha