The two parties are the same

[TheKentuckian]

46. You can't avoid the reality of their ideology nor the hardline nature of the ardents

Nor can you whitewash how regularly we are limited by ideology in our own appointments with well qualified potentials written off before a list can be formed as "unrealistic" that in no way equate in ideological extreme to what would be their opposite numbers and we typically end up nominating moderate justices that hold the line on a hand full of hot button subjects but still bend the court a bit further.

The TeaPubliKlans have been shoving very hardline extremists down our throats and if you don't see the effects then I don't believe LASIC will be enough.

They also have been pretty much assholes about any and all nominations of any sort from our side of the aisle for decades now ( and I believe they would have behaved the same any time after Ray Gun's first term). We are corralled into pre - negotiating with ourselves before they then use every maneuver in the world to force folks to pull out and get beat up and down even if they are deemed "moderate" enough to be swallowed.

Particularly this go around, we seemed fairly boxed into nominating judges (that goes for any sort of nomination too) at all levels at least a bit more conservative than those they replaced and increasingly we are cuckold into even putting some of their wicked reactionary fools on benches.

Really, I think the whole argument taken to much of an extreme becomes pretty much inherently phony or otherwise it wouldn't actually matter. It totally matters and always has, sometimes less purely on partisan lines in the present iron fisted way but always critical.

You are into a hypothetical ideal here against a reality that bites with cruel and terrible teeth of iron.