The singularly most effective filibuster in the entire history of the US Senate

[Stinky The Clown]

It began on March 16, 2016 when Merrick Garland's nomination was never brought to the Senate floor. Indeed, debate never began and most Republican Senators refused to even meet with him.

And today, as the GOPee enhances its stranglehold on any semblance pf comity in the Senate, we hear them citing Democratic partisanship as the reason for invoking the nuclear option.

How swell.

[world wide wally]

1. ABSOLUTE Bulllshit

[spanone]

2. a 14 month filibuster....and they had the nerve to say gorush deserved an up or down vote

[Baitball Blogger]

3. They blamed the American constitutional process.

At least we can all see them cheating in broad daylight. No way to walk this one back.

[sheshe2]

4. A**holes!

[mn9driver]

5. Gorsuch will always be known as the Illegitimate Justice,

sitting in a stolen seat. He cannot ever be anything else, unless he resigns.

[mountain grammy]

6. 100% correct!

[Lanius]

7. Garland's treatment by the hyper-partisan GOP was unprecedented. McTurtle's hatred of Obama went

beyond politics.

[3catwoman3]

8. My hatred of McConnell...

...goes beyond my hatred of Trump, and that's a pretty damn high bar.

[Pauldg47]

14. Constituants should surround that pricks office.

[NewRedDawn]

15. Moscow Mitch

Putin-Publican Traitor pusbag.

[Saviolo]

9. I posted a twitter rant about this earlier today:

Don't believe this "Aw shucks, we didn't WANT to dismantle Democracy" baloney from the GOP. This has been the plan for ages.

They've been saying forever that they want a gov't small enough to drown in a bathtub. They've been looking for an excuse forever.

They have the mentality of serial abusers. "Don't make me do this!" followed by gaslighting about it never being their plan (it was!).

And all they can do is blame the Democrats who hold neither the presidency, nor the house, nor the senate, yet are somehow oppressive.

Right now they've got everything they ever wanted, and it's tearing them apart. Happily for them, it demonstrates that gov't doesn't work.

But the people who will suffer are the poor, POC, refugees, women, immigrants, LGBTQ, and at-risk communities. The GOP doesn't care.

Trump is a dream come true for the GOP. He can fail big in very public ways and everyone's going to watch it happen. Meanwhile the GOP rank and file has lined up to get all of their pet policy passed in order to secure ever more money from their lobbyists, and almost no one will notice while the big orange monster is blundering up ahead.


(also, here is a link to the actual Twitter rant: )

Link to tweet

[Marcuse]

10. Garland was the nuclear option. Gorsuch is merely the second strike.

We've been living in the post nuclear apocalypse ever since the Republicans decided that President Obama was limited to a three year term as far as nominations are concerned. Resistance is not futile.

[NewRedDawn]

16. Right

Garland was the nuclear option & this is the radioactive fallout.

[barbtries]

11. makes me want to scream.

they are not patriotic americans. they have no respect for the will of the people. they're horrid.

[LaydeeBug]

12. and it's also how long Moscow Mitch knew the Russian fix was in...payback was his wife's job. nt

[3catwoman3]

17. McConnell knew the fix was in when Scalia died.

He was way too damn confident that a Republican was going to be the next president. I detest this smirking POS.

[LaydeeBug]

18. good point. nt

[BigDemVoter]

13. But. . . According to Fucky Toad and the rest of the MSM clowns,

"2 wrongs don't make a right" (Dems filibustering the Repigs). . .

God, I fucking HATE Chucky Todd. . .