brett05

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 03:21 PM) So you want the government to be run like Joe Biden wanted it run? And you called me a liberal. Given your post about your voting style you are at best an INDY. So my liberal comment really wasn't wrong.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 02:16 PM) I'm still confused why it's okay and good to deny a President the powers of their office for at least 25% of their elected term regardless of what Joe Biden thought about it in 1992. What was denied? Was he prevented from making a nomination? Nope. So it looks like his power was unaffected.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 02:11 PM) Ha! It's called the Biden Rule by Conservatives who are attempting to grasping to find some historical evidence to obstructing Garland. To the extent that we were in Court, the evidence of the Biden rule would, at best, be circumstantial evidence that Biden might have tried to prevent a SCOTUS appointment in 1992 had one been available. But the weight of that evidence would be lessened because what Biden would have actually done is, at best, speculative. One more time. Biden did not prevent a SCOTUS appointment in an election year because there was no vacancy in 1992. Also, you didn't respond to the comparison of the "Biden Rule" to the ACA's origins as a Republican idea in the early 90s. I never said Biden used it. I use the video as solid proof that the idea originated with him. Easy win in court there. Anything else you need clarified there? What about the origins of the ACA?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 01:22 PM) I don't even see this as being a shade of gray here. It is flat out a ban on Muslims according to the President. Except it's not a ban on Muslims. There is no Muslim Ban, just a way to partisan by liberals.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 8, 2017 -> 07:47 AM) There's an entire party built on this philosophy that somehow conned the people the most in need of help into giving them complete control of everything. That's be the democratic party. Exhibit A, Chicago. Exhibit B, Cook.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 7, 2017 -> 01:13 PM) I've explained this before, but Biden never created a rule to not give a vote to a SCOTUS nominee in an election year. Nor did he ever refuse to vote on a SCOTUS nominee in an election year because there was no vacancy on the Court when he gave that speech. Furthermore, even if Biden would have pushed for no vote until after the election if there had been an opening (which is speculative at best), there is no evidence to suggest that Biden would have had sufficient support to prevent that vote from happening So yeah, it's not a liberal idea, and it clearly did not have bi-partisan support when Garland was nominated. Let's correct this. No one said there was an official rule, but it is called the Biden Rule. No outrage over his statement was made by the liberals when it was said. So yes, the fact is the idea is a liberal idea and it came thru this past election cycle. You'd get smashed in even a liberal court with this silliness.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 1, 2017 -> 01:41 PM) It's reprehensible that the last one was blocked in a way never before seen by scumbag republicans, so it makes any nominee here annoying as f***. except it was former VP Joe Biden that said this is what should be done. So yeah, it was a liberal idea that has bi-partisan support.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 6, 2017 -> 07:49 AM) Brett, Do you believe in American Exceptionalism (like Justice Roberts, Thomas and Scalia) or in the new Trump doctrine that Russia and the US are essentially moral equivalents? Do you believe Putin would be a better leader for America than Obama? I had to look up the term and used wikipedia (i know not a great source) to catch up on it. I'd say no, I do not embrace the term. I caught only a sound bite on the O'Reilly interview. I would say countries don't have morals, people do. I have no idea if Putin could be a better President of the United States than Obama or any of our Presidents for that matter.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 09:33 AM) Too easy. Fair. I was wrong.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 09:32 AM) The only thing that is clueless is trying to rationalize that the GOP didn't try to obstruct Obama. Don't that person who tries to justify everything that your party does. Don't be a drone. Use your mind and see past the marching orders. I've done nothing of the sort.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Feb 3, 2017 -> 07:52 AM) Tell me about the Bowling Green Massacre. To throw back to back 300's was amazing

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:16 PM) Way to ignore all of the times they didn't. You are literally posting in a thread that is here because the GOP engaged in the longest single obstruction of a Supreme Court candidate in the entire 241 year history of the United States of America. You can't be anymore dishonest to say otherwise. You are clueless. Conservative but clueless. It's not why I post here.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:14 PM) I think my favorite thing about Brett as a poster is that he keeps calling SS2K a liberal. Provide one post where I said that, else I would suggest you change your handle.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:14 PM) I think my favorite thing about Brett as a poster is that he keeps calling SS2K a liberal. Provide one post where I said that, else I would suggest you change your handle.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:21 PM) https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/opinion/...hopes.html?_r=1 brett were you really proud when Tom Cotton obstructed Cassandra Butts from getting her nominated position of ambassador to the Carribean to honor her as she battled leukemia, and Cotton put a hold on the nomination once he learned that Butts was friends with Obama and it would inflict personal pain on him? Butts died and was never appointed. Or did they not go far enough there? This has to be the worst troll ever. Get back to obstructing everything our President does.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:18 PM) Sky actually isnt blue, that is just the way humans perceive it due to blue light waves being shorter http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/ *sigh* My circles do not involve many in 100K plus arena. The few I know (20 or so) are not off guard. Many do care about the SC. It was the first thing I and many in my circle look at in politics. I agree he needs to keep the jobs we have and bring more back. He's doing just that since election day. He needs to keep it up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:10 PM) Thankfully they have this wonderful tool called google in the 21st century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States...hutdown_of_2013 Way to ignore all the times they passed on that idea. Are there any intellectually honest liberals? Any?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:08 PM) guys keep in mind that brett has also said in the past that he thinks the Supreme Court has been liberal for years/decades. Anything short of 100% of his policies is not considered conservative, anything short of 100% obstruction is not considered obstruction (when Republicans are doing it). Again, keep ignoring your democratic VP Biden. Keep believing that anything that isn't 100% liberal is conservative.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:06 PM) Eh. 46% of the public didn't speak. It takes very little of a move of people off of the sidelines and into the D's camp to remake things in the opposite direction. The one thing I have been blown away with since election day isn't how upset the left wing is, because they are always in meltdown over any Republican. This is the same group that labeled so many candidates as right wingers, they had to come up with a new term for actual right wingers because no one really cared about the term anymore. No, what has amazed me since election day is how pissed off and insulted the middle of the country is right now. In all of the elections I have ever been through, I have never seen anything like this. That is even including Bush/Gore in 2000 where the left squealed about a stolen election ad naseum. Even then the middle just wanted to get past it and move on. That is the opposite case with this election. I have never seen so many pissed off people. If this sentiment lasts in even a fraction of its current form, even Walter Mondale is going to laugh about the electoral slaughter. I have no idea what middle you speak of. The middle of the country, thrilled. The middle class. Happy. At least in my circles.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 02:02 PM) Ummmm... what? The Republicans literally obstructed Obama for 8 years and it did not really seem to impact their viability on election day. But that's been said a bunch of times to you in this thread already. I suspect that this post will also fall upon deaf ears. They literally did not. They bent over backwards and refused to use the power of the purse. The color of the sky in my world is blue, and yours?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 01:37 PM) For whatever extremely stupid reasons they chose, Democrats didn't seem to push this at all and just assumed the electorate would take it into consideration. And they did. They liked the idea that they could have their voice heard and it was so.

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 01:24 PM) Want to make a gentlemen's bet that the Repubs get crushed if Trump keeps this up? Keeps his campaign promises something that no one really does because he's not a politician? Sure.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 11:20 AM) You give the American voting public way too much credit I think the public spoke and if the Democrats keep up politics as usual, they are going to be voted out in record numbers.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 10:57 AM) Bruh, you know ss2k5 is one of the more right leaning posters here. Not sure it matters, does it?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 2, 2017 -> 10:34 AM) Complete breakdowns of the norms that allow our Constitution to function is not a good thing regardless of who said what when. Our system really isn't flexible enough to handle situations where Congress just flat-out refuses to do its job. Imagine the chaos if the Democrats controlled the Senate and just flatly refused to confirm any and all appointments made by Trump regardless of who the candidates were, or refused to ever pass any bills whatsoever. They may not ever have control, but they are making it clear that they plan to do just as you describe as best they can.