On Thursday, the Senate confirmed yet another Trump-nominated judge:
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Trump's 26th appellate judge nominee 81-8.
The NO's: Blumenthal, Gillibrand, Hirono, Markey, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Schatzhttps://t.co/AEJM4pvlzq
— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@JonathanCohn) August 17, 2018
Former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer weighed in this way:
The position of the Democrats morally and politically should be that they will vote no on every single Trump judicial nominee for the rest of his term. https://t.co/bpaTd63waZ
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 17, 2018
“Every single Trump nominee”? Even this one?
This nominee served in Obama's DOJ for 8 years as assistant US attorney; prosecuted Dylan Roof, the 2015 mass murderer in Charleston church; and had support of local Democrats.https://t.co/YYx3oKXnuB https://t.co/Nfty5hhq8h
— Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) August 17, 2018
Oh yeah, even that one:
I know and it doesn’t change my view.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 17, 2018
Ah, got it, but couldn’t that backfire?
Ok. But what do you tell Brian Schatz & Hirono when the WH nominates someone they have asked to nominate? As rare as that is, it is happening in some instances:https://t.co/PZfzVEO1d0
— Paul Kane (@pkcapitol) August 17, 2018
In that case, the Dems would surely take the easy “win,” right? NOT right:
I know it's not easy, but you have to draw a bright line.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 17, 2018
It should come as no surprise that even if Trump were to do something the Dems have asked for, they’ll oppose it (remember when the Dems called the GOP the “party of ‘no'”?). But now the Dem philosophy seems to be…
Turning down nominees that were asked to be nominated by libs to own the libs.
— Michael (@Michael2014abc) August 17, 2018
Ha! Also, Pfeiffer’s “line” looked familiar:
Would you say a bright “Red Line”?
— Oscar Buck Wilde (@dorn_bruce) August 18, 2018
LOL! It’s come to this for the Dems, as Pfeiffer helped demonstrate:
Read this thread, and then understand: This is precisely why Mitch McConnell is sitting on a throne of skulls, laughing his ass off.
They wanted to play hardball. Mitch did. He was better at it than them. Simple as that. https://t.co/nQ1bPLCLLz
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 18, 2018
I don't like it, but Mitch was faced with either playing hardball, as Reid/Obama forced him too…or raise the white flag.
He decided to play their game. And he was better at it than them.
That is why people like @danpfeiffer hate him so much.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 18, 2018
This is only going to get worse too. None of this is good for the country…but again, the cycle of stupidity continues.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 18, 2018
Democrats applaud Nancy Pelosi for playing hardball with Obamacare.
Well…McConnell is the flip side of that. If you applaud Pelosi on the one hand…can't logically criticize McConnell for doing the same.
They are really birds of a feather.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 18, 2018
So Pelosi is despised by the Right; McConnell, by the Left.
But both are probably the most successful persons in their respective jobs in our lifetimes.
And we wonder why politics is the way it is.
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) August 18, 2018
The Democrats seem to have been beaten at their own game, at least for now.
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