Oh, come on GOP.

Oh, come on GOP. What the actual frak is wrong with you people? Someone like this is not going to just stop at one or two cherry picked agenda items. They are going to abuse their power to try and drag this country back culturally to before there was a United States. They wouldn't uphold and defend the Constitution if you paid them to. Do you have any idea at all what you are doing? Do you even care?

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538363825/conservative-political-blogger-confirmed-for-seat-on-federal-appeals-court


http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538363825/conservative-political-blogger-confirmed-for-seat-on-federal-appeals-court

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  1. Jeffrey HuoJuly 21, 2017 at 1:05 AM

    For years, the right wing had bragged about the Four Boxes of Liberty. They lived by that idea, and now we and our children will live - and die - by it, too.

    Next time you see a Stein voter, you can thank them for it.

    Everything they will take from us and our children, to the end of our lives - the next time you see a Stein voter, you can thank them for it.

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  2. Jeffrey HuoJuly 21, 2017 at 1:39 AM

    In any case, the party-line vote here - yet another example of the Iron Law of Republican Moderates - Moderates Always Cave - puts into stark relief the stunning political incompetence that led to the current fiasco that is ACA repeal.

    I still believe that if the GOP leadership had simply rammed through early on an insistence that everyone who had ever voted for clean repeal over and over again simply do the same, with the (bullshit) promise of a "swift replace", it would have gone through. Letting that bill fester with time for study and debate, giving independent voters a chance to get to know the "real" GOP from Trump on down, and giving them enough time to pressure GOP moderates into a modicum of resistance - did not help.

    Speed and stealth are the keys to an assasination, be it a person or a national ideal. Why they couldn't get their shit together enough to apply that principle to ACA repeal is still puzzling.

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