RBG Scare: David Axelrod Warns Supreme Court Vacancy Fight Could ‘Tear This Country Apart’
23rd August 2019
“If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and @senatemajldr carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland-it will tear this country apart,” David Axelrod said in a tweet Friday afternoon.
Well, no, it couldn’t. Not unless AntiFa can muster more guns than the NRA.
Axelrod is merely doing the sturm-und-bluster pimp walk that Democrats roll out (‘We bad! We so bad! Better not mess wit us, ’cause we bad!’) whenever they suspect that Republicans might possibly be considering treating Democrats the way Democrats habitually treat Republicans. This is meant to frighten the Mitt Romneys and John McCains of this world back onto their reservation. Such bluster betrays weakness rather than strength.
It won’t work on Trump, who will nominate whoever he wants to nominate, regardless of Democrat bluster. He’s good about that.
It won’t work with McConnell, either, who is very conscious the he will have Trump’s boot up his ass (rhetorically speaking) if he fails to do his job. And I think McConnell is actually enjoying having power, now that he’s gotten over his hesitation to use it.
The Brett Kavanaugh circus underscored the fact that there is no nominee Trump could make that won’t be tarred as the second coming of Heinrich Himmler. If Trump nominated Larry Tribe from Harvard, the Huffington Post would quickly find evidence of Tribe having sexually harassed a hamster during his prep school years. Therefore there is nothing to be gained by listening to the Usual Suspects in hopes that they won’t trash his nominee, because That’s Gonna Happen. He will probably (I hope) nominate a well-qualified woman like Amy Coney Barrett, just to demonstrate to the world what a bunch of hypocritical partisan rage-monkeys the ‘feminist’ clerisy can be. And then he will spend a month or two on Twitter banging on the glass of their cages, just because he can. And in the end the Senate will vote to confirm and the three remaining liberal justices will be invited to Go Suck On It.
There is no way RGB can last five more years, and I’ve got a large cabinet full of popcorn set aside towards that day.