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PoindexterOglethorpe

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12. Obama made the biggest mistake of his Presidency when he didn't

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 04:42 PM

Sep 2020

fight for Merrick Garland. He should have been out there every single day pointing out how the Senate was refusing to do its job. He, and every other Democrat out there, should have been naming the many times a justice was confirmed during the last year of a Presidency. He rolled over without a fight, and we're still paying for it.

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My GINSBURG/election e-mails with my 85 yrs old political cousin. (He was a local muckety muck.) [View all] UTUSN Sep 2020 OP

How do you propose that we stonewall until after the inauguration? TwilightZone Sep 2020 #1

Dig deep to find a couple or 3 Repuke senators (MURKOWSKI) with the teeniest integrity. UTUSN Sep 2020 #3

Hah! Like there are any of those in the Senate. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #11

Calming effect soothsayer Sep 2020 #2

O.K., clarify: Am I the one to get the calming effect? and who is the object of the thanks?!1 UTUSN Sep 2020 #5

Oh gosh I was vague soothsayer Sep 2020 #7

Wow, SO nice! I'm not *used* to such niceness, THANKS!!!!!!!!1 UTUSN Sep 2020 #8

Wingnuts love Trump, regardless. I saw no indication of their being demoralized? They're in a cult. mzmolly Sep 2020 #4

Yea, everybody always sides with the other side of me, but I fully realize his cult was there. UTUSN Sep 2020 #6

This is the second "let them have it without a fight" notion I've read JHB Sep 2020 #9

Thank you! UTUSN Sep 2020 #10

Obama made the biggest mistake of his Presidency when he didn't PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #12