Impeach Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley

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Thursday March 17, 2016 · 10:40 PM PDT

2016/03/17 · 22:40

Refusing even to consider President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill Judge Scalia’s vacancy on the Supreme Court amounts to more than political obstructionism. It is, quite literally, a gross dereliction of duty. No less than the President, all senators—McConnell and Grassley included—have taken a pledge to uphold the Constitution of the United States. That constitution obligates the Senate to advise the President on his nominees and, ultimately, consent to one. In the context, “advise” means to hold hearings; “consent” means to vote on the candidate who has been heard. The Constitution does not mandate that every nominee be approved—only that some nominee eventually be approved. There would be no dereliction of duty in holding hearings on Judge Garland and then voting him down. But to refuse to hold hearings on any nominee whatsoever, no matter who it is, until the President is out of office—the President of the United States, whose constitutional responsibility it is to expeditiously replace vacancies on the highest court in the land? That is a violation of their oath of office, and to me suggests grounds for impeachment.

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Tuesday December 18, 2012 · 7:26 PM PST

2012/12/18 · 19:26

More of a tweet than a diary, but I don't twitter:

Don't call them "high-capacity ammunition clips" anymore. Call them "school clips". Cuts right to the chase, doesn't it?

A Trayvon Counterfactual

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Friday March 30, 2012 · 9:54 PM PDT

2012/03/30 · 21:54

You know, I’m beginning to think that Trayvon Martin did try to beat the crap out of his stalker (despite the apparent lack of injury on the police tapes). Yeah, he’s just a kid (but older than the “Bambi” photo that MSNBC likes to run), but he’s a terrified kid. He’s been running from this spooky white dude who keeps running him down—and you know what happened? I think at some point Trayvon stopped running, turned to face his attacker, and stood his ground. They argued and tussled, and maybe he did manage to knock Zimmerman down. And then the gun came out, and the screaming started.

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Tuesday March 15, 2011 · 12:00 AM PDT

2011/03/15 · 00:00

I keep wanting to weep for Japan. This tsunami is the most appalling natural horror I have ever witnessed, Banda Aceh and Haiti included, and that's saying a lot. But that's not what keeps me on the verge.

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Tuesday January 19, 2010 · 8:35 PM PST

2010/01/19 · 20:35

Three things led us to this moment. Only the first of them is immutable:

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Wednesday January 06, 2010 · 2:23 PM PST

2010/01/06 · 14:23

Last summer, Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein considered the current state of Republican political discourse and gave it a name (new to me at the time, anyway) that cuts right to the chase: political terrorism.

The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they've given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.

Amazing how le mot juste can clarify things so... clearly.

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Saturday July 25, 2009 · 11:19 PM PDT

2009/07/25 · 23:19

The way I see it, Sen. Baucus is now serving his last term in office. If he sabotages Obama's health care initiative and stymies this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to finally make it happen, the hounds of liberal hell will be on his trail. (The election was less than a year ago; the troops have not yet disbanded.) I personally will do whatever it takes in terms of money and campaigning to see him defeated in 2014---assuming he doesn't just retire---and make life miserable in the meantime. And I am certainly not alone in feeling this commitment.

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