Post by nighttimer on Apr 13, 2017 12:02:35 GMT -5
Still not listening...
As to be expected you only paid attention to half of that graph and as to be expected the wrong half. Here's the meat on the bone: ...Trump's "right to fill the seat because he's President" is only because Mitch McConnell denied Obama his right to fill the seat because he was the President."
You got it now or am I typing too fast? Please catch up if you can't keep up.
But he still has the right to do it. You don't like it. I get it. But there's nothing to be done for it. Indeed, it's a done deal. Because he had the right to nominate someone. If Hillary Clinton had won, she'd have had the same right. Maybe she would have merely re-nominated Garland. Maybe not. But she would have the authority, the right to make that decision.
The problem, I think, is that you--like many others, to be sure--see this only through the lens of political parties. But when it comes to the powers of the executive versus the powers of the legislature, party labels don't matter. The fact that Trump ran as a Republican doesn't mean that his authority as President is impacted in any way by what McConnell did. Again, it's all on McConnell and other Senate Repubs. Trump had no hand in that and it in no way limits him now.
The problem, I think, is that you--like many others, to be sure--see this only through the lens of political parties.
Oh, please. Spare me the patronizing bullshit and stop ascribing to others characteristics you exemplify and exhibit just as much as anybody else. Scroll up. This board proclaims its reason to exist is "thoughtful POLITICAL discussion." I don't see jack through the lens of political parties. I see things like the Gorsuch* bum-rush of Garland as politics and I---like most of the members of this fledgling board--am a political person.
And so are you, so don't play me as if your motivations are somehow purer than mine. You're not even remotely objective on this subject.
Whether I'm a Democrat or a Republican or a liberal or a conservative or none of the above, don't trivialize my position by saying its based upon a party affiliation. Long before I voted, I learned the difference between what's right and what's wrong and the manner in which Neil Gorsuch was placed on the Supreme Court is all wrong.