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  1. That Pelosi can’t even pretend to support court packing tells you how much opposition there is to it from from red state Democrats and corporate America.

    For my part? Bring it on. This is what millions of Americans voted for when they cast a ballot for Joe Biden after he spit in their face and publicly refused to answer where he stood on court packing. This is what the GOP establishment invited when they sat back and let Trump be savaged non-stop for four years.

    I wish there was another way but as the guy said in “Law Abiding Citizen”…

    “Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.”

    Mike

  2. Can SOCTUS investigate the possibility of creating two presidents. One for red America and one for blue America. Each could pass executive orders and thus represent all of the voters?

  3. Once the collective Leftist hive gets a idea all work to achieve it.
    Roberts court has already been owned running scared of this.

  4. Re: “End game Total control of all three branches of government plus federal elections equals permanent hold on power.”

    The left’s ideological fanaticism prevents them from seeing what the result of them gaining what they imagine will be a permanent hold on power.

    They will find that in reality, they are now upon the proverbial tiger’s back, one they cannot control nor safely dismount from…

  5. I have wondered for some time what the Democrats have on Roberts. Probably something to do with his adopted kids. He is also a coward. Kavanaugh is a squish and ACB showed she was a waste of the trouble to get her on the court. It is just astonishing to watch the judicial system accept the coup of 2020. Not a whimper.

  6. Watching the end… the body dying of many cancers come to feast…
    the carcass not even cold as the vultures pick over the bones…
    to the leftists… be careful what you wish for, you may get it…

  7. Artfldgr:

    Good and Proper, one hopes.

    Still, Court Packing is a good test for the Bow Tie Brigade. If they don’t show up at the barricades for this, we’ll know they were never serious.

  8. “If they don’t show up at the barricades for this, we’ll know they were never serious.”

    NARRATOR: They were never serious.

    I just checked George Will’s output since the start of the year. ZERO columns on the southern border crisis (though one from early January lauding America’s “unauthorized” immigrants. Seriously. That’s what he called them. “Unauthorized” immigrants) and TWO…count’em…TWO columns praising Biden’s supposedly tough stance toward China.

    Mike

  9. Intimidating SCOTUS is the primary goal. It may work; of the six ‘conservative’ justices, only Thomas and Alito are unyielding. Roberts could be intimidated by a butterfly. As for the three Trump appointees…TBD. But I have my doubts if it got really heated, all three of them would stay strong

  10. Geoffrey Britain,

    All dictators face the same dilemma.

    It has been said that the biggest problem with the dictatorship business is that it has a lousy retirement plan.

  11. I have a ‘sinking feeling’ that the Dems radical ideas, if they succeed, are going to backfire on them. That would be a ‘all good’.

    Americans are not Venezuelan, but I definitely see the comparison. In 1980 I lived in the Caribbean and met individuals from all over the world. We were on a sail boat that we sailed from Lake Superior. There were a lot of boats from Scandinavia, Western Europe, South Africa, the Americans North and South. The flashiest yachts at the docks were owned by Venezuelans. They had money to burn, more than other countries. Venezuela was the richest country in South America. Yes, there were things that could be improved, but their radical ways of their socialist government turn the country into a disaster.

    Money and power in the USA over the decades has been concentrated on a smaller and smaller group of individuals that consist of tech giants to leadership in government. It is appalling how mendacious, disgusting and ignorant this group of leaders has become. MBunde has a point; ‘Bring it On!’ These old decrepit, ‘leaders’ need to fail. Or we will be like Venezuela.

  12. It is remarkable how politically incompetent the GOP is showing itself to be. Maybe not though, it is possible they prefer and enjoy permanent minority status. They can pronounce their principles in opposition to what the Dems do and still collect their grift.

  13. Who needs a solid majority in congress when she commands a president with a pen and not afraid to use it to pass the same thing by executive order.

    And if you think the GOP RINOs are going to vote against packing the court with far left partisan judges, think again.
    They’re 5th columnists, the lot of them.

  14. “Bring it on…”
    Well one might certainly sympathize…except that Biden didn’t win the election…
    Which leaves us where, exactly?

    (Though I suppose one could make the claim that he “won”….)

    Nonetheless, without skipping a heartbeat, and with perfect gravitas, says the man who stole the election (The Man Who Would Be Pres.?):
    ‘Prepared to respond if Russia interferes with our democracy’—Yes he is. Indeed he is….
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/537705

    So what will it be? A collective sigh of relief? A collective sigh of disbelief? A collective Bronx cheer?

    But without a doubt the comic-tragedian of our times… Or is utter shamelessness just another advantage of dementia?…

  15. They’re not really aiming at the SCOTUS, that’s just the tactics they’re using. Their true aim is at the Bill of Rights. Those Pesky 10 keep getting in their way, and I don’t think there’s a single one that the Dems support whole-heartedly.

  16. JTW:

    I don’t think this one could happen through executive order. SCOTUS would say no to that – and SCOTUS wouldn’t have been packed at that point.

    Right now, the GOP is united against the court-packing move, and even some Democrats seem to be against it. If the GOP wasn’t resisting the bill, then Nancy Pelosi would have brought the bill up for a vote and it would have passed. Same in the Senate. All they would have needed for that was a few votes from the right. And yet, they clearly didn’t have even those few votes, or the bill would have been passed.

    I understand frustration with the GOP. But it is a mixed bag. Some GOP members of Congress are fine, Turning against them all has the end result of empowering the Democrats further.

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