Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is running for president in 2020. She thinks that Obama-style “let’s all get along and find common ground” thinking will get her the nod. So yes, she’s obviously misreading the base electorate’s mood and she won’t win, so who gives a shit, right? Well, except that it leads to her saying stupid shit like this:
The reasons this is insane should be obvious: 1) Republicans would get to replace Garland on a critical appellate circuit court, and 2) popular-vote loser Donald Trump could turn around and fire Garland a week later and nominate the Russian ambassador instead. And the Senate GOP would vote to confirm, because they are all co-conspirators in Trump’s treason.
Not to mention, after what they did to Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, even saying his name is a gross insult to Democrats.
And yet there is Klobuchar, thinking that this is somehow a “great idea.”
Now she was all alone on that limb yesterday, but unfortunately today she has company.
And:
So okay, this isn’t particularly a landslide of Democratic support, but let’s nip this in the bud before it gains any serious traction:
No Democrat who currently occupies either elected or judicial office should be considered. If they want to reach back into the ranks of the retired, all the power to them. There is no point in giving up a seat to the GOP, either in Congress or at any court, for a position which Trump can fire a week later. BECAUSE HE WILL. I mean, look at him! OF COURSE he will!
Klobuchar, getting hammered for her eager endorsement of the GOP’s judicial power play, tried to shrug it off:
Keep in mind, as she gears up for her presidential run, that this is the kind of person she’d be as president, someone looking for “consensus candidates,” you know, like putting a Republican like James Comey in charge of the FBI so he can ratfuck us during the next election. But aside from that, this was never a ”good idea,” or a “great idea” which is actually what her first tweet said. It was a shitty idea.
If she really wants to encourage that consensus candidate, then throw out names that wouldn’t surrender a crucial seat in a critical appellate court, particularly at a time when the courts represent the only bulwark to Trump’s abuses of power.