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MSNBC's Chris Matthews: Mitch McConnell has 'no right' to fill Kennedy's Supreme Court seat

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Posted by Fred 2018-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 He is a clear example of a need for post birth abortion. Chainsaw might be best for the dismemberment, but there's always using 4 hummers and some rope.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-06-29 00:30|| 2018-06-29 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Clear example of the reason mandatory retirement ages are appropriate. He needs to retire and write his memoirs by a blazing fire -- then throw the manuscript into the flames.

Posted by magpie 2018-06-29 00:59|| 2018-06-29 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I've learned that leg tingles can be treated by acupuncture. Just sayin'...

Posted by Raj 2018-06-29 01:14|| 2018-06-29 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Syphilitic drunk

Posted by Frank G 2018-06-29 07:41|| 2018-06-29 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 "I think if the Democratic leadership under Schumer allows this to go forward, they’re going to have a huge problem with the Democratic base," Mr. Matthews said.

To bad, eh?

Posted by Maggie Elmineque8767 2018-06-29 08:12|| 2018-06-29 08:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Pig-eyed albino goes nuts.

Posted by Clurong Peacock9529 2018-06-29 08:18|| 2018-06-29 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7
"I think if the Democratic leadership under Schumer allows this to go forward, they’re going to have a huge problem with the Democratic base," Mr. Matthews said.

That's because the Democratic base isn't what it used to be: they're no longer the "working man's party", and have morphed over the years into the party for fuckups, fools, freaks, fatheads and freeloaders.

And flatheaded, drooling submorons like Matthews have played a major part in that transformation.

Go, Chris! Keep up the great work of destroying the Democratic Party!

Posted by Dave D. 2018-06-29 08:21|| 2018-06-29 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 I see Chris Matthews is still peeing down his leg and thinks it is a warm tingle up his leg.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-29 08:52|| 2018-06-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#9 They are scared. When it happens ( and it will) they will say the Russians Colluded with the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court iIS going to be stacked by the current President and the Senate WILL approve it now or after the Red Wave Midterms.

The Democrats are doomed.

Trump is not an accident and the Democrats don't see the Voter Truck. Byee.

Posted by Hupert Wittlesbach7534 2018-06-29 09:08|| 2018-06-29 09:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, the Demo Left just ain’t what it used to be
ain’t what it used to be
ain’t what it used to be
the Demo Left just ain’t what it used to be
Many long years ago

Posted by Alaska Paul 2018-06-29 09:23|| 2018-06-29 09:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Same guy who used to gush about how obutthole was a "Constitutional scholar..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-29 10:05|| 2018-06-29 10:05|| Front Page Top

#12
#10 AP: that ditty is so good I can hear the banjo twanging in the background.

The Donks are suffering from what I call "Wrong Base Syndrome" brought on by continual pandering to an ever-crazier gaggle of stupid, mentally-ill malcontents.

The only non-crazies left in the Party are the poor, ignorant slobs who vote Democrat "because our family has always voted Democrat," blissfully unaware that the Party has changed completely since the days of "Cold War Liberals" like Henry "Scoop" Jackson.

Wake up, folks! It ain't your Daddy's Democratic Party anymore.

Posted by Dave D. 2018-06-29 10:24|| 2018-06-29 10:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Stephen Green had a great take on the modern demoncrats:

Amie Parnes, the author of this piece, frames it as Young vs Old, Establishment vs Antiestablishment -- and she isn't wrong. But that framing also skips past the truth of it.

The real story is this: Believers vs the Cynics.

Youthful lefties still believe leftwing nonsense like "democratic" socialism, group identity, and all the rest. The Old Guard doesn't believe in much of anything other than lining their own pockets.

As the Old Guard ages and their numbers dwindle, the youthful believers demand to take over -- and the Left always-always-always devours its own.

Today's Old Guard came of age politically in the 1960s and '70s, after the more-moderate party elders got brushed aside by the radical Boomers and hippies. But you'd be hard-pressed to find a real radical left among them. The Clintons set the modern template: Say or do anything to win and keep power, then use the resulting influence to grow "rich beyond the dreams of avarice." Never before has America given so much to such otherwise unimpressive hustlers.

Even Barack Obama cashed out pretty much the moment he left the White House. Hell, considering Obama's net worth coming into the White House, having produced not one actual good or service aside from a couple of not-very-good books, it's a safe bet that Obama was never the radical he had played at being. It was always about the money, and about corrupting the law and the Constitution to get it.

But he sure did inspire a new wave of Believers, didn't he?

And now they've come to take what they feel is their due -- the cynical husk of the Democratic Party -- and re-radicalize it.

They'll do it, too, over the course of the next two, three, maybe four elections.

And make no mistake: This is a genuine grassroots radicalization. And they're angry, too, feeling robbed by the Clinton Machine of their rightful Bernie nomination two years ago.

I suspect that the party will become further marginalized during this period, until the Cynics take back over and drag it back towards moderation. But you never know. Maybe they'll find a hard lefty charismatic enough to create an illusion of centrism, and then take the country over the cliff.

What I do know is that no matter what George Will says, the Democrats in their current state absolutely cannot be trusted with power. On the off chance of another wave like 2006-08, legislatively and culturally they'll make Obama's first two years look like Reagan's.

So keep that in mind as you're weighing your votes over the next few elections.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-06-29 11:54|| 2018-06-29 11:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Hopefully the Democrats will spend a long time in the wilderness until a new generation with new ideas comes along.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-06-29 15:39|| 2018-06-29 15:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Wake up, folks! It ain't your Daddy's Democratic Party anymore.

That’s why so many of them voted for Donald Trump last time, and will again next time.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-06-29 22:35|| 2018-06-29 22:35|| Front Page Top

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