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The Democrats’ Notorious RBG Maneuver

2020-02-11

[ISSUESINSIGHTS] Impeachment has backfired far beyond the worst nightmares Democrats could have imagined. In its aftermath, President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s approval rating is actually now at its highest ever.

For them, it is the fourth quarter and the clock is getting close to zero, with Election Day nine months off. Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
is fading, the party asking to take over health care can’t count votes in a modest-sized state, and its leader in Congress is so unglued she rips up Trump’s State of the Union speech. But is there a Hail Mary pass some prominent figure on the left could attempt, to give Democrats hope?

Yes, there is. The near-87-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has in recent years become the most beloved luminary serving in government to rank-and-file, left-leaning Democrats, even gaining a trendy new nickname, "The Notorious RBG." Her life was the subject of a $20 million successful Hollywood movie released on Christmas Day, 2018.

After a laudable, years-long struggle, Ginsburg is now cancer-free. She has sat on the highest court in the land for more than a quarter century, and is renowned for her work ethic and her love for her work. If she could be persuaded to announce her retirement, to take effect at the end of the court’s current term, it would electrify and focus Trump opponents like nothing that has come before.

The 2020 presidential campaign would be changed into something entirely different from what it currently is. Ginsburg’s unusual decision would be viewed as a self-sacrificial act, motivated by pure principle. You can see the placards: "Ruth Saves America!"

Odds are it would not work, of course; Republicans are in the majority in the U.S. Senate, and Trump is likely to choose for Ginsburg’s successor Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a sharp-minded, likable mother of seven, one with special needs and two adopted from Haiti. Thanks to her attractive personal background, Barrett is well-inoculated against the kind of personal attacks launched by Democrats against Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.

But who can be absolutely sure? Kavanaugh’s confirmation took nearly three months. A great deal can turn up over that period of time, as armies of Democrat opposition researchers and left-wing journalists and activists scour every move you and your family, relatives, and associates have ever made since adolescence. There may, in fact, already be damaging dirt about Barrett locked away in Democrats’ files.

Posted by:Fred

#5 Wouldn't work.

Senate could probably ram someone through in time. Also, would leave the court 5-3 on important cases. Suppose that she's probably not going to be with us long anyway, so the inevitable might happen and they might spin it as a plan.

Posted by: Iblis 2020-02-11 11:34

#4 A great deal can turn up over that period of time, as armies of Democrat opposition researchers and left-wing journalists and activists scour every move you and your family, relatives, and associates have ever made since adolescence. There may, in fact, already be damaging dirt about Barrett locked away in Democrats’ files.

99% likely they already have it, locked and loaded.

Feinstein's anti-Catholic slurs are the tell. Almost certainly a dual-edged ridiculous combination of "too Catholic" e.g. she once thought about being a nun and "not Catholic enough" e.g. she invited a boy to her room on her Catholic School trip to Lourdes with Sr. Mary Elephant in 11th grade.

[Flip Wilson voice] Here come Da Shitshow!
Catholic Schoolgirl edition...

Posted by: Lex 2020-02-11 11:29

#3 "She raped me at a Fraternity Party while wearing blackface"

Posted by: Frank G 2020-02-11 11:20

#2 "There may, in fact, already be ~~damaging dirt~~ LIES about Barrett locked away in Democrats’ files"

FTFY.

Posted by: Barbara 2020-02-11 10:56

#1 "Weekend at Bernies" can't go on forever. RGB has not been at D.C. functions such as the SOTU speech. Has she been sitting for SCOTUS lately?

So yeah, the Dems are panicky about the possibility of Trump having a 3rd conservative appointment.

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-11 10:21

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