McConnell locks down key Republican votes for Supreme Court fight

[progressive nobody]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-locks-down-key-republican-votes-for-supreme-court-fight/ar-BB19enMf?ocid=msedgdhp



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is locking down key votes from Republican senators in his bid to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.


On Sunday, McConnell (R-Ky.) won the support of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who is retiring and was viewed as a potential swing vote as McConnell seeks to confirm Ginsburg‘s replacement as soon as possible.


“No one should be surprised that a Republican Senate majority would vote on a Republican president’s Supreme Court nomination, even during a presidential election year,” Alexander said in a statement. “The Constitution gives senators the power to do it. The voters who elected them expect it.”

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Republican Scum!

[soothsayer]

1. They're just such lowlifes

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. WE are going to have such bigger problems in just a few weeks, this can be fixed

later if we are still alive or have a country, but we may not.

[progressive nobody]

6. I know. I worry about the democracy too

everyday I see more and more signs autocracy is taking hold. I hope to hell I am wrong but I am scared I am not.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. NOt wrong, prepare for it, underground organization will be necessary

like the French WWII...for real.

[peggysue2]

9. Exactly!

Not that the SCOTUS issue isn't important but . . . the spotlight cannot be taken off Trump's corrupt incompetence. This is still a referendum on Donald Trump and his abysmal failures.

The November 3rd election is what it's all about. The only thing.

Otherwise the country is DOA.

[Raven]

3. It's sad, but he's right. His voters want this and he has put them before his conscience.

[Farmgirl1961]

4. So have they locked in the votes or are they locking in the votes

Supposedly two have said they won't agree to move forward and we need three. Who's the third? Is there potentially a fourth or fifth in the event Collins flakes out?

[Cosmo Blues]

11. They backtracked from the headline

I noticed that too, they have to talk to 51 or else they don't have it locked in

[Farmgirl1961]

12. Okay -- so he is trying to lock it in, but at this moment it's not locked in.

It sounds like there are two R's saying they aren't going to agree to vote (Murkowski and Collins). Who can we put pressure on?

[Cosmo Blues]

16. Not Sure

But if I were a Republican senator and was going to vote against Mitch McConnell I might not tell anyone until I vote

[walkingman]

5. Might as well get the lube - we are screwed.

[RKP5637]

8. Why does KY keep voting this creep Moscow Mitch back in. From what I've heard he and his

cronies are in the lap of luxury, while many in KY are in a horrible condition. Yep they vote the ass back in.

[In It to Win It]

10. I said this on another post but this is a fight I'm assuming that we're gonna lose

I've accepted that they're gonna fill that seat.

We're gonna be a little sad. It's gonna sting. I think our focus now should be what will we do when we gain power.

[Cosmo Blues]

14. Just because

You may be right doesn't mean you have to say it, I don't really understand the psychology of it but you know the people that don't have the slightest chance of winning their elections always say they're going to win? Hasn't it been most of us out here in the peanut gallery saying we wish Democrats would get a backbone. Here's some pessimism for you it's a hundred and five days before a new Congress is sworn in and there's no guarantee we're going to have any more power than we do right now

[BlueTsunami2018]

13. They're way better at the game, they simply want it more.

You’re never going to win if you play by the rules and your opponent does not. It makes me ill when people on our side say things like “If I have to cheat to win, I don’t want to win.” and other high minded, principled bullshit. Where has any of that ever gotten us? Cheated out of Presidential elections, the Supreme Court and ultimately the right to direct the nation toward progress.

We lost because they wanted it more. They’re ruthless, amoral, unprincipled and underhanded. They were willing to do anything and everything it took to get to this point and it’s paid off. They won.

[COLGATE4]

15. LamarAlexander has proven to be one of

the greatest disappointments among retiring Senators. Once styled a "moderate" he has reduced himself (and whatever's left of his reputation) to a study in Profiles in Cowardice- The Love of Raw Power.