You really have to love it! The so-called Republicans(*) make their latest attempt to bring disgrace to the Democrats, by claiming that Joseph Biden, should he win the election and become the 46th President of the United States, will pack the Court with extra judges, to bring about a liberal majority. Then, if and when they get back into power, they will add more conservative judges and, eventually, there will be hundreds of judges on the SCOTUS.
BUT: they are doing what our narcissistic “beloved leader” has been doing ever since that same “beloved” rattlesnake slid down the escalator to start his campaign in 2015. They are projecting their own views onto their foes i.e., accusing the “other side” to distract from what they themselves are doing.
“Moscow Mitch” McConnell: Why does he dislike the moniker? Does it hit too close to home? (A Russian oligarch wanted to establish an aluminum smelting plant in Kentucky, Moscow Mitch’s home state. How much would he have benefited, financially, himself?) In 2010, shortly after becoming the Senate Leader, MM demonstrated that he is a White Supremacist, making a public statement expressing his ambition to make President Obama a one-term president. He didn’t do that exactly, but close to it, by balking every move to help America recover. This helped our adversaries. Thus, with justification, you could call MM a traitor.
We experienced the 70 times Republicans voted in the House to repeal ACA, although Health Care turned out to be the most important boon to the majority of Americans. We also noted that MM absolutely refused to bring a Jobs Bill to the Floor in 2010. (G.W. Bush had allowed the country to fall into the worst financial setback since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Obama was implementing a plan to bring America back from the brink). Obama succeeded, but it would have happened much sooner, if MM had allowed a new version of FDR’s New Deal to be implemented, which would have put millions back to work, to strengthen America’s crumbling infrastructure (still not done, although they pay lip service to the idea).
MM also refused to hold even a hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, claiming that a new Supreme Court Justice should not be seated in an election year (**). Nevertheless, in this election year, 2020, MM is determined to seat Amy Coney Barrett, only DAYS before the election, ensuring that SCOTUS will have an unassailable 6-3 Conservative majority for the next several DECADES!
If this isn’t Packing the Court, WHAT IS? He has ALREADY done it! On a court of nine judges! His ambition is to make it a clean sweep: NINE Conservative judges!
Also, while we have been distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic throughout 2020, MM has been using the senate majority to place conservative judges in place all over the country, even though many of them are completely unqualified. Meanwhile millions are unemployed in the USA, 8+ million are infected with Covid-19, 220,000+ have died of the disease, and MM won’t pass a bill to provide financial relief for so many Americans who are in distress. And this is MUCH worse a disaster than even the 2008 financial crisis!
Did you see him laughing openly, while his opponent in the election, Amy McGrath, accused him of not being a leader? It is clear that he believes he has achieved his life’s ambition, has more money than he will ever need, and has steered the country’s judiciary in a direction that will stymie efforts to restore democracy for decades to come, if ever. America, as a democracy, is probably finished. We will fall into Fascism very quickly, UNLESS . . . . .
America has been so weakened in 2020, that Trump’s boss, Vladimir Putin, could walk in, at any moment, and take over the country. We should start learning to speak Russian!
(*) In a previous blog, I have explained that these multi-billionaires are using what used to be the Republican Party, but is now (Limbaugh’s term) a RINO (Republican In Name Only). It has been usurped and has now become the Libertarian Party, on Speed. Their platform is “I’m OK, Jack. I have unlimited money, property, health insurance, power. You (the remaining 99.99% of the USA’s population) are on your own. Suck it up.”
(**) In June 1916, during a World War, and also an election year, in a strongly contested hearing, Judge Louis Brandeis was confirmed as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, on which Court he served until 1939. If McConnell had been there, this GIANT would never have served. (MM needs to go!)