They don’t have to turn that many votes, and if she says no, there will be others

Where's the memes?

Demoncraps might not be as keen on doing away with the fillibuster now, huh?

   

The DU meltdown is as sweet as the nectar of 2016 Election Night tears!

So when Trump wins, were still gonna have to wait 4 years after that?

If Trump loses its all over anyway.  Go for broke All in All done.

I just shot 4 under par and came home to this news.
What a great Friday.

It's possible they may be able to whip Manchin into a yes vote.

Arkancyde.

Alaska needs to fix that next election.

(Of course we have Manchin, so I can’t talk shit.)

Another reason why everyone MUST vote for Trump.

Wow as if this election year couldn't get any hotter.

That's sad for her family, but she was an enemy of the constitution.

Whenever there was a question of federal power, she invariably erred on the side of expanding federal power. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Wont happen. Mcconell wont do it and muck collins and rmoney wouldnt vote yea just to fuck the country over.

Voter fraud is going to be rampant.

This. The Republicans better install a new justice NOW. NOW.

In on page 17.


HAHAHAHAHA

LOL

No.

only if he was up for re-election in a tight race.

Nothing will happen before the Inauguration.  Actually I think this will be an effective "Get out and vote!" launching pad for the Dems.

A "new" president is four years away.

Look how that went.

She died at 87...

Brutal...and so apropos.  Well played sir.

If you're one of the fucking idiots voting for JoJo or staying home over stupid fucking bumpstocks this should motivate you to vote Trump like the fucking country depends on it.

Not the same thing.
The presidency and the Senate are held by the same party this time. And likely to do so for the next four years.
pay back's a b****

Right on!

Win or lose, Trump's current term runs until January.  He has a DUTY to fill that seat.

Fill that seat!  (with a Constitutional originalist)

Should do it tomorrow.

In on this epic thread. Trump and Mitch need to ram one through. Fuck Obama, Fuck Garland and Fuck Biden. Get it fucking done! And by any means necessary.

Was never going to get Murkowski anyway.

A counter argument. Nominate Amy, get her on the bench, it's 6 - 3. The fight is over for the Court for the next decade. May not be as big a motivator for the Left as media is assuming.

First things first:     On a personal / humanistic level, I see this news and I shake my head that she specifically decided to refrain from retiring years ago, apparently deciding she wanted the first woman president to replace her.    She fell for the broken polling in 2016 and made a decision that was basically nakedly political, and then spent the next half a decade getting propped up "Weekend at Bernie's" style while she was very ill.   It would have been better for her to step down and actually have a retirement then what happened.  

Second, lets get to the political, implications:  

Her decision was ultimately dumb politically (I heard from people close to the Obummer admin that they did put out 'feelers' to try and urge her retirement.   Its a less on about personal myopic mindsets screwing with the result one claims to desire.   I'm glad it went down this way, but damn... think of if Gorsuch was not on the bench and it was Garland instead!?

As for what happens next, it goes without saying that Trump should immediately make the formal nomination of the most conservative and well liked of the woman judges on his list circulated recently.    He should grind for the confirmation fighting just as hard as Obama did for Garland, pointing out that he was not part of the Republican establishment when the Biden rule was invoked etc.    He should begin to highlight good TEXTUALIST / CONSTITUTIONALIST passages in their past opinions, without getting into specific issues... focus on the judicial philosophy.    Right now, if Trump gave a press conference that said "Hey, those people are eating shitty used diapers from the dumpers;  that's really gross.   Tremendously gross,"  the liberal media would fill the airwaves with why its actually OK to eat out of dumpsters.    So getting the focus on the constitution and textual analysis will naturally result in the liberal media talking about the 'living constitution' and abortion rights and all that shit and that helps Trump with his base and the middle of the road voters.

If he's lucky and especially if the Trump base puts huge pressure on the senators, he might even get the nomination through.   I kinda doubt it.   RINOs love saying 'no' to their own party and the opposition will no doubt coalesce around Mitt Romney.  

But making a current pending nomination a part of the package can't hut Trump in my view in terms of motivating voters.

On the other side, this will really rile up the lefties and no doubt result in them going even more nuts.   Given what a pending SCOTUS seat did for Trump in 2016, its possible that this will enhance lefty engagement and turn out.   Especially if Biden names a half-black, half-latina, wheelchair bound lesbian as his proposed pick when he gets into office.

Its a hell of a development.  What a fucking year.

Morrissey should have actually campaigned. Manchin being in DC is squarely on Morrissey's shoulders.

If Mitch plays hard ball they will vote. He needs to do just that.

She probably did. Everything else on the left is so calculated to make the biggest possible negative impact on the American Psyche, why not this? Shit-storm right before the election.

She will. But it won't be a pleasant meeting.

And just when you thought the election couldn't get any more important, or batshit crazy, we throw this fuel on the fire.

Hunker down, fellas.  November is going to be a powderkeg.

Rest assured that whoever Trump nominates....well, they raped someone.

And just when you thought the election couldn't get any more important, or batshit crazy, we throw this fuel on the fire.

Hunker down, fellas.  November is going to be a powderkeg.

To all those thinking this will somehow convince the dems to cheat MORE than they already were:  you are delusional.  They were already going to cheat to the fullest extent.  

Some folks around here need to understand who we're talking about...the same folks that manufactured a faux impeachment that everyone in the world knew was garbage

Damn.

Why wait until Monday?  Do it now.

I understood that reference

Needs to be clean as a whistle

Well that still works, after the election and before the inauguration.

Holy shit.  I hadn't even considered that.