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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    Still trying to be the good guy and take the high road! JFC!
    Biden still seems intent on bipartisanship, even though he spent eight years watching the GQP bite Barack Obama’s hand each and every time he reached out to the other side and is now getting HIS hand chomped on by the likes of McConnell and his cronies. That’s what frustrates me. Unfortunately, at this point in his long career as a politician, Biden is too old to change, still believes the two parties can cooperate like they had back in the 1970’s, but, those days are long over. Today, the Qpublican Party is all about fascism and is hellbent on destroying democracy in this country in its naked grab for power and control, and they’re not going to stop until everything America stands for is in the toilet. Short and sweet: Democrats can’t afford to follow Biden’s lead, they have get down and dirty and fight the GQP on their own terms if the country has any chance of being brought back from the brink. No more “When they go low, we go high” bullshit, it’s time Dems whip out the brass knucks and throw hands, provided they have the balls to fight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Madam-Shogun-Assassin View Post
    https://twitter.com/courierjournal/s...CpFl4yStPX8Knw

    I guess Biden has made the calculation that he will ultimately be able to confirm more judges and federal nominees overall if he concedes to McConnell on this one. This entire thing is premised on McConnell holding up his end of the deal which track record suggests he won't. Bit whatever I guess.
    There is a serious problem for Biden in the lack of judicial nominees for all the vacancies.

    https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law...t-appointments

    Working with McConnell may be his least bad option. If it works, Democrats get some court appointments when they possess the narrowest possible Senate majority before heading into the midterms. Biden gets credit for bipartisanship which was his entire brand. It also wouldn't be his first bipartisan accomplishment after the gun bill, infrastructure act and relatively easy nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson.

    If it doesn't work, it's one appellate court judge. It gives a fig leaf for Manchin and Sinema to vote the party line on remaining judicial nominees, and shows swing voters who like bipartisanship that Biden tried, but mean old McConnell couldn't be trusted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Biden still seems intent on bipartisanship, even though he spent eight years watching the GQP bite Barack Obama’s hand each and every time he reached out to the other side and is now getting HIS hand chomped on by the likes of McConnell and his cronies. That’s what frustrates me. Unfortunately, at this point in his long career as a politician, Biden is too old to change, still believes the two parties can cooperate like they had back in the 1970’s, but, those days are long over. Today, the Qpublican Party is all about fascism and is hellbent on destroying democracy in this country in its naked grab for power and control, and they’re not going to stop until everything America stands for is in the toilet. Short and sweet: Democrats can’t afford to follow Biden’s lead, they have get down and dirty and fight the GQP on their own terms if the country has any chance of being brought back from the brink. No more “When they go low, we go high” bullshit, it’s time Dems whip out the brass knucks and throw hands, provided they have the balls to fight.
    I have been ranting on this thread for a long time the Dems need to wake up and stop this nice guy crap. And even after all that has happened and been revealed the last week and a half Biden is playing nice as if nothing happened and the GOP is the same as the one he has dealt with in his younger years.
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    Just pointing out before everyone sets their hair on fire: there is no opening or vacancy for this supposed deal to impact at this time, so all the breathless tweets about how Biden is about to appoint this terrible guy are a bit ... premature. It's almost like some folks just *might* be having their chains yanked again.


    And just a reminder when we're talking about one judge:

    As of June 21, 2022, the United States Senate has confirmed 69 Article III judges nominated by Biden: One Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, 16 judges for the United States courts of appeals and 52 judges for the United States district courts. There are 34 nominations awaiting Senate action: 14 for the courts of appeals, and 20 for the district courts. There are seven vacancies on the U.S. courts of appeals, 65 vacancies on the U.S. district courts, two vacancies on the United States Court of International Trade,[2][3] as well as 43 announced federal judicial vacancies that will occur before the end of Biden's term (16 for the courts of appeals and 27 for district courts).[4] Biden has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts. Biden had the largest number of Article III judicial nominees confirmed during a president's first year in office since Ronald Reagan in 1981.[5]
    Nice.
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    Not satisfied with outlawing abortion, anti-abortion activists want to criminalize even talking about them.

    https://prismreports.org/2022/06/22/...lists-at-risk/

    What does it mean for a website to “encourage” abortion? New anti-abortion model legislation released last week by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) would force anyone who publishes work online to grapple with that question, putting journalists who cover abortion squarely into legal crosshairs. The model legislation—which NRLC hopes will be adopted by state legislatures around the country—would subject people to criminal and civil penalties for “aiding or abetting” an abortion, including “hosting or maintaining a website, or providing internet service, that encourages or facilitates efforts to obtain an illegal abortion.” Unsurprisingly, the text offers no guidance on how broadly or narrowly the provision might be interpreted: Does it cover an article on how medication abortion is accessible by mail or reporting on the medical consensus that it’s safe? What about a story on the opening of a new abortion clinic, or one covering the work of abortion care clinicians, advocates, and doulas? Is it too “encouraging” for a website to simply remind readers that despite the leaked draft Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Whole Women’s Health, abortion remains legal, and people are free to keep their appointments? If so, along with abortion providers and advocates who already face constant surveillance, harassment, and violence from the U.S. anti-abortion movement, journalists at trusted news organizations like Prism, DAME Magazine, Rewire News Group, Scalawag, and others could face legal jeopardy simply for doing our jobs: fighting misinformation, and providing readers with up-to-date, deeply reported, and fact-based information that reflects the state of the nation and helps them navigate their place within it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Just pointing out before everyone sets their hair on fire: there is no opening or vacancy for this supposed deal to impact at this time, so all the breathless tweets about how Biden is about to appoint this terrible guy are a bit ... premature. It's almost like some folks just *might* be having their chains yanked again.


    And just a reminder when we're talking about one judge:

    Nice.
    Outrage is good for business, for some people. I saw guys passing around "Will Hillary run in 2024" articles on Twitter today to just stir things up. I don't get it.

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    Some good news for the WBQueue.

    State Rep. Tricia Derges, a Republican in Missouri’s House of Representatives, was found guilty on Monday of 22 charges including wire fraud, illegally distributing drugs like Oxycodone and Adderall without valid prescriptions, and lying to investigators.

    “This is an elected official who stole money from the public, a purported humanitarian who cheated and lied to her patients, and a medical professional who illegally distributed drugs,” U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore said in a statement by the Justice Department’s Western District of Missouri. “She violated her position of trust to selfishly enrich herself at the expense of others.”

    This ruling marks the end of a two week-long criminal trial in Springfield for a federal investigation that started back in March 2020. Derges was originally indicted by a grand jury in February 2021, but additional charges surfaced a month later. Some included her seeking out nearly $900,000 in CARES Act funding for COVID-related expenses that had already been paid for at her several medical clinics she founded throughout southwest Missouri and through her nonprofit, Lift Up Springfield.
    https://heartlandsignal.com/2022/06/...ibuting-drugs/

    Derges represents Christian County (District 140) in the Missouri House. She was first elected in November 2020 for a two-year term. She will not be able to run again, however, as Missouri law states that a person cannot run for public office “who has been found guilty of or pled guilty to a felony under the federal laws of the United States of America.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    This concern seems more like malicious compliance, where they're not trying to go with a new policy, but to make it as politically toxic as possible.
    Wow.

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    Seems like Walker's not doing so hot in Georgia.

    GA Senate Race: Warnock Opens Up 10 Point Lead Over Walker, Quinnipiac University Georgia Poll Finds; Kemp And Abrams Locked In Dead Heat In Governor's Race
    https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3851

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    Outrage is good for business, for some people. I saw guys passing around "Will Hillary run in 2024" articles on Twitter today to just stir things up. I don't get it.
    Was it Chris Cilizza?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Seems like Walker's not doing so hot in Georgia.



    https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3851
    I'm equally encouraged that Abrams is tied with Kemp for the governor's chair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Seems like Walker's not doing so hot in Georgia.



    https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3851
    Hah, but his 11 other personalities have not even started campaigning!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainEurope View Post
    Was it Chris Cilizza?
    It always is. That guy, he really needs a hobby or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Just pointing out before everyone sets their hair on fire: there is no opening or vacancy for this supposed deal to impact at this time, so all the breathless tweets about how Biden is about to appoint this terrible guy are a bit ... premature. It's almost like some folks just *might* be having their chains yanked again.


    And just a reminder when we're talking about one judge:



    Nice.
    Thats fine that there is no vacancy right now. But if he made the deal to appoint the guy when there is one with Mitch that is still pretty bad. because it still shows that he is making deals that the GOP wont honor when their time comes.

    But I am glad you posted the second part with how many he has gotten appointed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by babyblob View Post
    Thats fine that there is no vacancy right now. But if he made the deal to appoint the guy when there is one with Mitch that is still pretty bad. because it still shows that he is making deals that the GOP wont honor when their time comes.

    But I am glad you posted the second part with how many he has gotten appointed.
    The gop is holding up nominations right now. If appointing a few judges that the GOP wants gets a much larger set of vacancies filled by people we do want that is by definition a good deal.

    But mostly, I recommend everyone be skeptical when you hear things like this. Be skeptical, but be ready.

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