re: Hypothetical USSC Deal

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It's appalling the things I see right now, and the media is all for it.

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Look around you. Stop viewing your countrymen through the lens of media propaganda.

I know a lot of liberals. I work with them. I laugh with them. Life goes on. They aren't in the streets tearing America apart.

It's very sad. As you said it should be apolitical more than any position in government. She has done her service and should spend the rest of her days doing whatever makes her happy. She didn't do that while Obama would choose her successor so I'm confident she won't do it with Trump picking.

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I know a lot of liberals. I work with them. I laugh with them. Life goes on. They aren't in the streets tearing America apart.

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I do too, and for the most part you are right.

Then you come across what seem to be normal people that have gone off the deep end.

The old lady on the plane berating a Trump supporter, the guy harassing Ivanka on the plane, my mother inlaw is convinced she will die in the next 4 years because of health care, etc, etc.

It's crazy.

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They have no leverage NOW. That will change and we will all regret it.

Conservatives are supposed to be the party of logic, lets not devolve into the party of emotion. Emotion vs. emotion will get us nowhere.

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This. I think the OP deal is a great one and would prevent headaches in the future while still shifting the USSC more to the center/right.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) panned President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, calling him a "hostile appointment."

"This is a very bad decision, well outside the mainstream of American political thought," she said of newly minted nominee Neil Gorsuch during a CNN town hall Tuesday. "It's a very hostile appointment."

"Elections have ramifications and here is a living, breathing representation of it," added Pelosi.

Pelosi said House Democrats would support their Senate counterparts in how they handle the nomination - some have called expressed openness to his nomination, while others, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are already prepared to vote against him.

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frick them...it's time to bury these hacks.

If I were the Dem decision maker on that I may not accept that exact configuration but I bet we could come up with something. Might want someone a little more centrist than Pryor.

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Might want someone a little more centrist than Pryor.

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curious why you'd pick this one and not the RBG one

that's fair and reasonable

i just think many progs will hold that RBG spot as literally sacred and it will take a legit prog to replace her, and not a moderate like Garland. i only want him to be the nom to see the DEMs shite on him after praising him for a year+

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will hold that RBG spot as literally sacred

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It's possible which is why it's even more important not to die on the hill over Scalia's seat. It gives you that leg to stand on later.

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It's a no lose deal for the Left

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It's a no win deal but it manages the damage and preserves the fillabuster.