It is clear that Trumpublican trickery will
get a Supreme Court Justice to replace RBG nominated and approved by the Senate
in short order, probably before the election.
Republicans can be counted on to ignore their own prior statements
(regarding the Merrick Garland nomination) and what their consciences tell them
is right. That’s why they’re
Republicans. They’re truly low life. It’s part of the package they got when they continued campaigning under the now reprehensible GOP label, sort of like the Faustian legend. They sold their souls to Trump to get the
votes of his base.
The Democrats will scream and holler, but
really will be able to do nothing until they win the Presidency and both Houses
of Congress. This is likely to happen were
it not for the pending Trumpublican trickery, which will call for litigating the election results all the way up
to the Supreme Court … where they will have a controlling majority as soon as
the Senate approves the new Justice. That’s
why they want a vote quickly. (Votes
against the nominee by Senators Collins and Murkowski, and by a
hopefully-elected Mark Kelly whose immediate seating in the Senate will not
have to wait until January, would still not be enough to stop confirmation of
Trump’s choice.)
Trump wants immediate control of the Court in
order to litigate and invalidate a total Trumpublican debacle in the
election. He may succeed in this unless
the results of the election produce so overwhelming, so massive, a Democratic
victory for the House, Senate and the presidency, on a popular basis as well as
in the electoral college, a victory of such proportions that even the most
rabid Republicans crawl back into a corner and turn the country back to the
real Americans, taking it away from the ultimate ‘oligarch wannabe’ in the
White House. I don’t know if that will
happen, but I certainly hope so.
If Trump doesn’t succeed in invalidating the
election, even with the Court on his side, the Democrats will immediately add
Justices to the Court and perhaps add likely Democratic States to the Union. Either way, Trump or the Democrats coming out on top, the streets will be
filled with demonstrators for the next decade. That is the where the real
issues like abortion rights, real racial equality, immigration, health care, gun
violence and climate change will be resolved. Wrongly or right, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, with the government reacting to the demonstrations, either directly or indirectly. And all of this going on while the Covid19 pandemic, essentially ignored by the Trumpublican administration, remains a great influence on the nation's health, both physical and economic.
Does anyone actually believe Roe vs Wade can
be reversed and the Affordable Care Act emasculated without a demonstration by millions
on the streets of Washington? And the
struggle for racial equality would be nothing without demonstrations. If the government uses force to quell such
demonstrations, there will be a response.
And supporters of the causes the President seems to espouse have shown
their power in demonstrations in places like Charlottesville and in Washington,
against Roe vs Wade. The next decade
will not be a peaceful one.
JL
When you read about and see demonstrators fighting to keep the monuments dedicated to the traitors who fought the government in the Civil War from being taken down, you realize that war is still being fought. Most of them were erected almost half a century after that war and did not commemorate individual heroes of the war. They really celebrated the South’s success in negating the result of the war with Jim Crow legislation, voter suppression and groups like the KKK. Those who fight to preserve these monuments would have been rebels during that war, fought over the issue of allowing slavery to spread throughout the nation’s westward expansion. Post-Civil War “Reconstruction” of the South failed, betraying the freed slaves, when the impeachment of Andrew Johnson failed. Lincoln had chosen him as Vice President just to show he was not an anti-Southern radical. Big mistake, Abe, and the Senate, not unlike today’s Senate, proved it.
Unpublished Letter
Trumpublicans in the Senate haven't voted on the House-approved Heroes Act providing relief for problems, particularly schools, arising out of the Covid19 pandemic. They feel it goes too far. A local Florida resident wrote a letter to the Palm Beach Post urging our Senators to support the bill. I followed it up with a letter of my own, still unpublished, which went as follows:
"A recent letter writer (Mon. Sept. 21) urged that Senators Rubio and Scott stand up for millions of Florida children and support the House-approved Heroes Act. In saying that “anyone with two eyes can see that to reopen safely, schools need resources right now,” the writer missed the fact that most Republican Senators, our two included, tightly close their
eyes on entering the Senate Chamber, by order of their leader, Mitch McConnell. It’s a wonder they don’t trip over the furniture there."
JL
Watching TV
I was watching a baseball game on TV the other day (Marlins vs Nationals) when they had some trouble with the transmission for a few minutes. I immediately tuned my radio to the AM station carrying the game and followed it there. When the TV transmission problem was corrected, I was surprised to find that the TV feed was running about ten seconds behind the radio broadcast. In some situations, I knew what was going to happen before I saw it on TV. (Example: From the radio broadcast, when the count on a batter was three and two, I sometimes … but not always … sometimes they ‘dawdled’ more than ten seconds … was able to know whether he walked, struck out, hit a foul ball, got a hit or made an out, before whatever happened appeared on the TV screen. I suppose ten seconds is too short an advantage to be monetized, except maybe in a sports bar with the radio broadcast coming in on an earplug.) So remember, what you see as presented on TV as “live” is sometimes not always “live.” This might be a function of what kind of TV set you have or the way your cable company transmits its signal … but seeing something after a ten second delay, is not quite seeing something “live,” although it rarely matters. This kind of delay sometimes is intentional in newscasts when the editors want the opportunity to eliminate something violent or indecent from their broadcast of something “live.”
JL
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