TODAY JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY ANNOUNCES HE IS GOING TO RETIRE
WHICH MEANS TRUMP CAN PICK ANOTHER SUPREME COURT NOMINEE.
INSTEAD OF CALLING WHAT HE DID OBSTRUCTION OF THE PRESS, HE IS
LITERALLY APPLAUDING HIM.
HIS BOLD GAMBIT TO BLOCK MERRICK GARLAND FROM THE COURT FOR OVER
A YEAR WHEN OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT PAID OFF, AND NOW IT IS PAYING
OFF IN SPADES.
IF DEMOCRATS DID IT THEY WOULD SAY IT IS OBSTRUCTION.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT.
THEY ARE REFERRING TO AND FRAMING IT AS A BOLD RISK THAT
MCCONNELL TOOK.
IT IS TRUE THAT IT ULTIMATELY PAID OFF BUT IT WAS OBSTRUCTION.
THAT TYPE OF FRAMING MATTERS AND INSTEAD OF CALLING IT WHAT IT
REALLY WAS THE PRESS HAS DECIDED TO APPLAUD AND CELEBRATE WITH
WHAT MCCONNELL DID.
NOW ON THE OTHER HAND, AND WHEN THE REPUBLICANS WERE IN
CHARGE THEY SAY WHO CARES ABOUT THE RULES.
SO YOU STUPID DEMOCRATS FOREVER THINKING WE OBEY THE RULES.
WHEN OBAMA WAS TRYING TO PASS THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT THEY
THOUGHT SHOULD WE USE RECONCILIATION?
BUT THEY HAVE
REALLY CAREFUL ABOUT ALL THE SENATE RULES AND PROCEDURES.
SO THEY MADE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT MUCH WEAKER BECAUSE THEY
WERE SO OBSESSED WITH THE RULES, AND THE PRESS YELLED AT THEM
NONSTOP.
AND THEN READ IN HIS INFINITE STUPIDITY SAID LET'S GET RID OF
SOME OF THE FILIBUSTER RULES.
WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT EARLIER?
AND THEN READ AND OBAMA AND
EVERYBODY LETS HIM BLOCK GARLAND.
THE DEMOCRATS ARE INCOMPETENT AND THERE IS A TRACK RECORD OF
IT BUT THE PRESS AIDES AND ABETS REPUBLICANS BY YELLING AT THE
DEMOCRATS EVERY TIME THEY EVEN CONSIDER VIOLATING ANY KIND OF
TRADITION.
WHEN REPUBLICANS DO IT THEY LIKE FIREWORKS AND SAY HOW
AMAZING, WHAT COURAGE.
HERE IS MY PREDICTION ñ REPUBLICANS SHOULD DO EVERYTHING
IN THEIR POWER, USE EVERY RULE THERE IS TO MAKE SURE THEY BLOCK
THIS APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE MIDTERMS.
AT A MINIMUM THEY ARE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.
AND THEY BLOCKED GARLAND FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.
BUT IF THEY GO TO MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION HERE IS MY PREDICTION
ñ THE PRESS WILL BE VICIOUS TO THEM.
THEY WILL SAY THE DEMOCRATS ARE BLOCKING THINGS, IT IS
OBSTRUCTION.
AND THEY WILL SAY IT AND BE FURIOUS AND WILL EQUALLY
WHATEVER MANEUVER DEMOCRATS ARE DOING, EQUATE IT TO THE
WORST THING DONALD TRUMP HAS EVER DONE.
THE SECOND PART IS, AS USUAL THE DEMOCRATS WILL SAY OH NO IN YOUR
TIMES CRITICIZE ME, I GIVE UP.
YOU MARK MY WORDS.
I WAS GOING TO TRY TO DEBATE YOU BUT I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT.
THE ONLY THING I WILL DISAGREE ON IS THAT DEMOCRATS ACTED THE
WAY THEY DID DURING THE DEBATES OVER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THEY WANTED
TO UPHOLD THE RULES.
WE ALL KNOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS DIDN'T WANT A PUBLIC OPTION.
THEY DIDN'T WANT REAL HEALTHCARE REFORM AND THAT IS THE
REASON WHY DEMOCRATS ARE NOW PAYING THE PRICE FOR THEIR
BEHAVIOR IN THE PAST.
YES I DO THINK THEY ARE AFRAID OF THE PRESS, BUT I ALSO THINK
THEY ARE INFLUENCED BY THE SAME CORPORATE INTERESTS THAT WE
ACCUSE REPUBLICANS OF BEING INFLUENCED BY.
THAT WAS CERTAINLY THE CASE WITH THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
EVEN THOUGH THAT IS FAIR WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE
PRESS REACTION.
THEY FRAME THE ISSUES AND IN THAT CASE THEY FRAME IT AS
DEMOCRATS ARE DOING SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND UNPRECEDENTED
IF THEY PUT TOO MANY THINGS THROUGH RECONCILIATION.
LATER WHEN REPUBLICANS GAINED OFFICE THROUGH TRUMP, THEY DID
GIANT TAX CUTS AND THE PRESS DIDN'T SAY A PEEP.
ALL OF A SUDDEN IT WAS ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT.
THE PRESS, EVERY TIME IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WERE BORN YESTERDAY.
YOU ARE THE SAME GUYS WHO WROTE THE ARTICLES BACK IN 08
OR 09.
AND SO THAT IS GENERALLY THE MAINSTREAM PRESS.
THEY DO IT LESS WITH TRUMP.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS,
ESPECIALLY PEOPLE LIKE MITCH MCCONNELL THE CANNOT WAIT TO
BOW DOWN TO THEM.