StrangeSox

The technical term to describe Trubisky is "bad"

Reality is scripted

I'm not sure if I'd like judges to be elected, but there are major reform that should be enacted. Appointment to a single term, 12-20 years. Every President gets two appointments per term that must be voted on by the Senate in a timely manner. Cases can be held the same way as appellate courts, with a panel of judges with the possibility of appeal to an en banc review. Could also split up the court the way many countries do, where you have a separate constitutional court. There was never really good agreement on how the Scotus should be structured when they were drafting the Constitution, so it's not the most well thought out part.

They could drop Kavanaugh this week and ram Pryor or Barrett through either before the midterms or in the lame duck. They clearly don't care about public opinion, and either way they still secure the court for a generation.

How did Whelan get both Blasey Ford's name before she went public and her friend's name, which still isn't public? Who was at the party that knew both of these names that Whelan has been talking to? Lends pretty strong evidence that *something* happened that Kavanaugh or his buddy remember clearly to this day.

yikes

He wouldn't be "fucked for life." He would not be 1 of 9 people in a country of over 350,000,000 to hold the highest court seat in the country. He would still hold one of the most important federal court seats on the DC appellate court for the rest of his life.

Stephen Miller and John Kelly are both still central members of this administration

some interesting choice of words here from McConnell

The classmate was one of Kavanaugh's character witnesses to the Senate. So they're tarring a guy who's supposed to be evidence of how good Kavanaugh is as an attempted rapist via a Pizzagate level "investigation." You have to ask what the real motivation for ramming through Kavanaugh despite his questionable past beyond these serious allegations really is. It's not like a Justice Pryor or some other conservative appellate judge wouldn't rule 95%+ the same way. Could they really not find anyone cleaner than him? Is this a pushback against the idea that someone with Kavanaugh's upperclass connected background ever facing consequences?

https://secure.randybryceforcongress.com/page/s/volunteer Beto was in a band with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, and that's good enough to get my vote!

They are both extremely wealthy men who were able to buy their spot in the ballot.

I'm not a fan of Reddy's approach but I can't agree that that's what is happening here. He's not trying to convince anyone of some false reality, and he did list some actual progressive candidates, and AOC tally doesn't need outside help when closer races at all levels could use it.

Just came across this article https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-government-loan-forgiveness-program-has-rejected-99-of-borrowers-so-far-2018-09-20 So far, roughly 99% of processed applications for forgiveness under a government program aimed at helping public servants manage their federal student-loan debt had their applications rejected. As of June 30 of this year, about 28,000 borrowers submitted 33,300 applications to have their loans discharged under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, an initiative launched in 2007 that allows borrowers who work in certain types of public service to have their federal student loans wiped away after 10 years of payments. Of the roughly 29,000 applications processed so far, 96 borrowers have had about $5.52 million in debt discharged under the program, according to a government report released Wednesday. [...] “It’s obvious that a huge number of people that couldn’t meet the requirements did not understand that they weren’t meeting the requirements,” said Clare McCann, the deputy director for higher education policy in the think tank New America’s education policy program. “The complexities in the program’s design mean that there are going to be a lot of people who think they’re eligible for PSLF and they’re not.”

Check out his yearbook quotes, it's right up his alley. The biggest conservative minds, possibly including the Kavanaugh team and the White House, have been hinting at 100% exculpatory evidence all week. Several top Senate staffers hyped it. Tonight they finally released it, and.... it was basically some Zillow searches, crawling through the yearbook, and then blaming someone else entirely. Absolutely disgusting and pathetic top to bottom, and if Kavanaugh himself was involved, he should not only withdraw but resign.

this is why the left finds it hard to take calls for unity from centrist dems seriously and

more for @Reddy

drain the swamp

Bredesen's a former governor there that was term-limited out and left fairly popular while Marsha Blackburn is not particularly well liked even in a pretty Republican state. I thought online polls have improved in quality quite a bit since the dark days of Zogby? The Reuters/Ipsos poll is a legitimate scientific survey, not some garbage online "opinion poll," at least. It's getting harder and harder to get usable response rates from phone polls. That said, I still don't buy Beto being ahead and think Cruz will win by a couple of points.

@Reddy

It doesn't end up better but the GOP is also making it very clear that it doesn't actually matter. So why put herself through it and give their sham hearing any legitimacy? It's gonna be cool to have a court where at least 4 of 9 justices were appointed by Presidents who couldn't win the popular vote and came in under a cloud of controversy and illegitimacy (Bush being appointed by the conservatives on the court in 2000, Trump and possible collusion with Russia and definite campaign crimes to influence the election in 2016).