Campaign Action
Sen. Mitch McConnell, who is a traitor to his nation and we ain't gonna stop saying that just because he insists everybody but him be polite about these things, has never pretended that his effort to block the first black American president from a Supreme Court nomination during the last year of his term was anything else but a one-time excuse. Now that Donald Trump is in office, McConnell cannot rush to his side quickly enough.
And so it's a given that McConnell is, only hours after Justice Anthony Kennedy's announced retirement, already planning a "lightning strike" rush to confirm whoever Team Trump wants to replace him. Maybe it will be Lou Dobbs. Maybe it will be Ted Nugent. Maybe it will be take-your-pick from the list of hardline crackpots previously assembled as their far-right dream team of names most likely to ban abortion outright, reinstitute Jim Crow restrictions against voting, and destroy any and all worker rights that interfere with the great gilded class.
It doesn't matter. The plan is an immediate confirmation—a Republican rush to confirm whoever it is before the midterm elections.
“The goal will be to get a conservative confirmed before the election,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the No. 4 GOP leader. “I’m delighted to see President Trump have another opportunity to appoint another Supreme Court justice. And I’m sure he’s going to appoint somebody just like Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch.”
The conservative movement is very, very consistent at this point: Nothing they said or did at any past point in time matters. They went from "no Supreme Court appointments during an election year" to "we must immediately confirm name-not-known-yet because it is an election year" and all it took was a corrupt, amoral traitor in the White House to change their minds.
The rest of us may have other ideas. Feel free, oh civil inhabitants of the real world, to make your own voice heard. Be polite, or you’ll make these traitors to the Constitution cry.
Oh, and you can also donate to the campaigns of the Democrats running to replace these crooks. Feel free to do that as well.