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The Democratic Party vs. Neil Gorsuch

March 26, 2017 By CARL M. CANNON / Staff columnist Updated 12:00 a.m.

 

One of the least uplifting aspects of modern American politics is how the out-of-power party essentially roots for the country to flounder.

 

Sometimes, this subversion is expected, such as when a presidential nominee trying to unseat a White House incumbent describes conditions in the country as much worse than they are, while hoping in quiet desperation for bad economic news. It’s a bipartisan impulse: to one degree or another Walter Mondale, Bob Dole, John Kerry, Mitt Romney — two Democrats, two Republicans — were guilty of indulging in it.

 

Less subtle is when partisans simply blurt it out: They want the newly installed president to fail. Rush Limbaugh expressed this sentiment about President Obama in 2009. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said early in Barack Obama’s tenure that he aimed to help make him a one-term president.

 

Regarding Donald J. Trump, the Democratic Party’s leadership and much of the liberal punditariat have made it clear they want him to be a “no-term” president. They won’t confer on Trump the legitimacy of his Electoral College win. The cost of such hyper-partisanship is on full display with the Democrats’ disjointed opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/modern-747627-aspects-sometimes.html

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Warren Vows Filibuster on Gorsuch Nomination: ‘Way Outside the Mainstream’

 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said last week that she supports a filibuster to stop the Supreme Court nomination of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch, claiming that he is “way outside the mainstream.”

 

“We need to have a judge who’s kind of acceptable to both sides,” Warren said on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition Friday. “That’s the reason there’s a 60-vote rule in effect on Supreme Court nominees.”

 

“I don’t think Neil Gorsuch meets that standard,” Warren said. “Here’s someone — read his record.”

 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/26/elizabeth-warren-supports-filibuster-gorsuch-nomination/