It's clear McConnell's theft of a Supreme Court seat is paying off in spades (NYT Editorial)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/opinion/sunday/justice-gorsuch-delivers.html

Justice Gorsuch Delivers
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | JULY 1, 2017

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has had a rough couple of weeks. Yet, however many setbacks he might suffer over health care reform or other parts of the Republican agenda, he knows he has already won the biggest fight of all: the theft of a Supreme Court seat from President Obama, the installation of Justice Neil Gorsuch and the preservation of the court’s conservative majority for years to come.

“One of my proudest moments was when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy,’ ” Mr. McConnell told a political gathering in Kentucky last summer.

With this audacious pledge — made only hours after news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Feb. 13, 2016, reached the public — Mr. McConnell demolished longstanding Senate tradition and denied a vote to one of the most well-qualified nominees ever: Merrick Garland, the veteran federal appellate judge Mr. Obama had chosen to replace Justice Scalia.

As the court’s term ended last week in a flurry of high-profile opinions and orders, it was clear that Mr. McConnell’s gambit had paid off in the extreme. It’s risky to read too much into a justice’s early opinions, but Justice Gorsuch, who was confirmed less than three months ago, has already staked his claim as one of the most conservative members of the court.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Hey, Mitch!

[Chasstev365]

2. Even if I had to somehow shut down the government,

Trump gets NO second nominee until Merrick Garland is on the court!

I believe in karma and in this life or the next, karma will meet up with theTurtle Boy.

[forgotmylogin]

3. Would there be grounds to potentially impeach McConnell?

Is that done? He clearly has outlined his defiance of a Presidential nomination and ignored it almost a year for his own gain. The proper procedure would be for them to bring it to the floor and all vote "no" on the nomination. Filling a SC seat is pretty important in the scheme of things, and Turtle's neglect to even carry out that business might potentially be considered a dereliction of duty.

Grasping at straws...I know.

[HAB911]

4. They ALL sold their souls to the Devil for that seat

One day, Satan will collect

[stopbush]

8. Nope. No Satan. No god. It's up to human beings.

In this case, massive fail.

[HAB911]

9. Oh, I don't believe in either

they believe in both

[Sneederbunk]

5. We must rely on the history books to take care of McConnell.

[Coventina]

7. Screw that!

I, for one, am never letting this go.

[kimbutgar]

6. If there was solid evidence the election was rigged in favor of chump

Then gorsuch is illegimate as chump and should step down.

I feel like this country is going to reach a breaking point under chump like we've never seen and the government will fall apart and turtle and granny starver will be swept away.