(09-23-2018, 11:19 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(09-23-2018, 11:10 AM)TJBender Wrote: Know what would solve that? A Constitutional amendment requiring that all Supreme Court nominations made by a sitting President be heard within that Congressional term unless the President is in a "lame duck" period (between a November election they lose or do not participate in and their January inauguration) or if there is not enough time left to conduct a hearing. Exact length of time would be up to legislators and voters to decide on. This would prevent stupid situations like McConnell's "yeah, we're just not gonna consider anyone because we don't have to" and the current "zomg RAAAAAAAAAAAAPEexceptnotreally" things from interfering with the Constitutional duty of the Senate to approve or reject Supreme Court nominees.

And yeah, if Kavanaugh is not seated by midterms, it's not necessarily bad news for Trump. Extrapolating a bit here from bits and pieces of what I've seen across a range of news sites, spectrumwide: Trump is likely going to lose the House. There's a chance he loses the Senate, and if he doesn't have Kavanaugh seated before midterms, that chance increases significantly because if he can't get his own team to confirm his selection... 

Losing Congress is not a kiss of death to his Presidency by any means, because he could pretty easily spin the lack of anything getting done as Congress' fault for refusing to work with him. Also, Democrats still don't have a viable candidate for 2020. The name I keep seeing coming up is Elizabeth Warren, and holy crap, if she's elected President, I am moving to Cuba for a free market economy. There remains a pretty good chance that Congress turns blue, Trump wins reelection and we get a repeat of Clinton's second term, where nothing gets done and Congress decides to try and remove the President because they're bored.

I am very much looking forward to the democratic primaries in 2020. It is simply going to be epic TV. Can you imagine Warren, Harris, Booker (who groped a 15 year old back in the day), Stormy's lawyer, Joe "Freaking" Biden!

My God, this is going to be epic. Can you imagine the debates about them trying to out-do each other on who actually hated Trump more? It's going to be a train wreck.

I'll throw a name out there: Tulsi Gabbard. Yes, she left her role at the DNC because of how they were steamrolling Bernie, and yes, she has his support, but her record is surprisingly centrist. She's in the ANG, she's worked directly with Trump, she's not as hot on gun control as most "progressives" are, she acknowledges that Islam is a motivation for terrorism, there's a lot to like there if you try to pick the candidate least likely to set the country back five decades. She's in trouble with the Democratic Party entirely because she works too well with Republicans. That's what I call a promising legislator.

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