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And vice versa. I find balance is the key. That's just me.

One of the most terrible decisions in my lifetime, was SCOTUS agreeing that a profitable Dairy Queen was a valid reason to enact eminent domain. That was a 5/4 split, with 3/5 being nominated by republicans. Any member of SCOTUS who literally says the rich can steal from the poor, is not a good judge.

 

Pretending Congress doesn't base policy on power is just silly. I predicted a year ago that McConnell would push through any nominee if a judge died. Why is this surprising? There's absolutely no doubt from anyone paying attention, that team D would do the exact same thing. It's not my preference, but pretending partisans will be anything except partisan, is just silly.

 

OMG--there were battles over SCOTUS nominees long before Bork.

You're exercised over what happened 30+ years go? This is like the McCoys vs. the Hatfields.

 

How can you say "Dems stared [sic] it with Bork..." when Justice nomination wars predated Bork.

 

What's it to you? The forum rules include: "We warmly welcome members from all over the world, and value their insights and perspectives."

 

The pols only stop playing games when voters get their backs up.

 

So, you're against a 6-3 majority, but you've fine with it because you would "love this to happen just to see progressives start throwing feces at each other?"

I think you would be disappointed by how historians will view what's going on now.

 

How about people who think all of it is important?

 

Indeed.

 

I'm all for the Republicans having a 6-3 or even a 7-2 majority on the Supreme Court. Simple reasons. For more than 50 years, the Democrat/Liberals/progressives have been utterly brutal in using the Supreme Court as a cudgel to force changes in this country that they know they could never get the American people to agree to through any kind of popular vote system.

Be honest. You know that the American people would've never voted to give homosexuals the right to marry or women the nationwide right to have an abortion if it had been put before them to vote on.

So please spare us all the sanctimony about "will of the people" or "sanctity of the courts". If you cared about either of them you would never have used the courts to further a political agenda that would never be passed by a majority of the American people

 

“Norms” are not ruled unconstitutional by federal courts.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/federal-judge-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional-democrats-immediately-vow/story?id=59834094

 

Really? That would put the American people well out of step with most of the West.

 

And that would surprise you?

 

Why should the American people be “in step” with other countries? Why are those countries not “in step” with the American people?

 

Of course it does.

 

Lol...this came up today and reminded me of this thread.

 

Nah. Truly, people on PF, or any forum, are not representative of the population at large.

If you join a pizza forum, there will be the New York/Chicago divide, and everyone else is third party. Most people in the US choose between Pizza Pizza and the Domino, and think nothing of it. It's like that with politics, except NY and Chicago pizzas are not comparable to red/blue; just quite comparable to "I'm right, you are wrong," mentality.

If you're not from NY or Chicago, the divide is very much the same. Yawn. Whose the less *******-ish of this group of slime? Trump bad/Biden bad; who had the least bad press recently. That's how these things are decided.

 

I love Pizza Hut. So does my President.

 

Off the top of your head and demonstrably in error.

Improved trade policies ... not so. NAFTA 2.0 is no real improvement, we haven't budged China (we lost our leverage dealing with China by ending our involvement with the TPP), no deal with the EU (Canada got one).

Roaring economy ... the economy grew about as much in Trump's first three years as Obama's last three...



leftist states began shutting down their economy over a Chinese virus ... an odd way of excusing this...

 

The last graph is looking slightly promising. Do you think US is turning the corner?

 

I think that a new, quickly approved conservative on the SC is best for the nation. So speak for your own party, mine is doing the right thing.

 

Exactly!

 

Yes, they will get their benefits.

 

He's talking out of both sides of his face.

 

Clinton received the most votes. In a normal country, she would have won. That Donald Trump received fewer votes than Clinton and won is a result that happens only in this country and it is anti-democratic.