Quick Thought - ACB Confirmation Hearing: US Senate Democrats Are Showing Their Pigheadedness Again - Granite Grok

Quick Thought – ACB Confirmation Hearing: US Senate Democrats Are Showing Their Pigheadedness Again

ACB at Senate confirmation hearing

I have the hearing on in my office as I’m going about my blogging day. One thing is clear: Democrats are all BEMOANING that they are about to lose their hold on what they consider “their” supra-legislature branch of Government – the Supreme Court of the United States.

Related: Watch the Amy Coney Barrett Hearing Live

Their opening statements are almost all following the same format:

  1. OrangeManBad – and this hearing is a result of it
  2. This nomination is too close to the election!
  3. How DARE you hold this hearing while PEOPLE ARE ALREADY VOTING!
  4. Discuss legislative agenda items like Obamacare and Roe vs Wade and insist their agenda has to be accepted by Amy Coney Barrett and she DARE NOT to cross them.
  5. Story, story, story – the Democrats could care less about the Law – all they care about is EMOTION and what EMOTIONAL stories can do. It’s almost a fact that they can browbeat ACB into submission.

Most of the Republicans are talking about ACB and the Court functions. The Dems are only emoting about their most famous Legislative Act may finally get the heave-ho because they screwed up. Ted Cruz is talking right now and he is MAGNIFICENT in slapping the Democrats around HARD on #4 in that the Democrats are WRONG in their wrongheadedness on the purpose of SCOTUS. Hope somebody gets a recording of it – we all should watch it. He carefully and forcefully is delineating the differences between the Legislature and the Judiciary.

#2 – a number of the Dems have mentioned how AWFUL it is that the “right to decide” is being taken away from “The People” because voting on the next President and Senators is already ongoing.

Funny, that:

  • We already did that – we all voted in the last election to put in the representatives into the seats they currently hold. The Dems are railing against the Republicans for pushing ACB through the process. Well, doesn’t the opposite then ALSO hold? That if their premise holds water (it doesn’t), they should be kvetching about stopping the nomination as well, right? What’s good for the goose is also good for the gander.
  • To that “the election is already in process” bit – gosh, as far as I can remember, WHICH Party has been pushing for earlier and earlier voting for an election? Oh yeah, Democrats. So they’ve set up the conditions that they now use as a political cudgel in today’s hearing.

I’m watching Civil War II writ small in the Judiciary Committee – what is the Proper Role of Government and what are the Proper Roles of each Branch within Government?

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