That is EXACTLY what Schumer did with Gorsuch, and in response, McConnell eliminated the filibuster for SC nominees.

Astyanax on NES!  I really liked the story for that game.

You’re right, LeBron James doesn’t know anything about carrying a bad team with no help. He should have looked to Paul Pierce for guidance.

Yeah, I miss when Paul Pierce earned his ring by getting two first-ballot Hall-of-Famers to come to his team, starting off this era of players teaming up to win titles.  Brings a tear to my eye every time.

So if they win, it’s meaningless, and if they lose, it’s a catastrophe.  Got it.

If compromise is your enemy, I’m not sure why you think Pelosi is a villain. When she was Speaker, she didn’t compromise with Republicans, as she had no need to; she got her own caucus in line.

Jesus Christ, this. Particularly this past playoffs.

First off, I have no idea what “party majorities in both houses” has to do with Pelosi, especially since the Senate - with 59-60 Dems! - passed neither a public option nor cap and trade. And Pelosi already had a House majority in 2006 two years before Obama was on the ballot (again, keeping in mind that winning a…

Winning seats is not Pelosi’s job. She is not the head of the DNC or the DCCC. Her job is to herd votes in the House, and she’s EXTREMELY good at it.

I mean, what do you think Republicans can do to win California? Or New York? Sometimes “nothing” is the only accurate answer. Democrats need to spend less time chasing after people who fundamentally do not want progressive government, and work more on activating non-voters.

Yes, the solution is to constantly throw the Democratic leadership out of office, because that will leave the Republicans with no target. Look how well it worked when Harry Reid retired!

“I think that you can’t win the White House without the Midwest and I don’t think you can go too far to the left and still win the Midwest,” Duckworth told Jake Tapper on State of the Union on Sunday, conveniently forgetting that in the primaries Bernie Sanders won Michigan and Wisconsin, two states the more…

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If they get Kawhi and Boogie, they are legit.

Yeah, and Hitler could have used any other unit of the military or law enforcement to do exactly what the SS did. That doesn’t mean “Abolish the SS” is adorable naivete.

Senators in 1937 would have been just as aghast at the idea of abolishing the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations as they were at the idea of court packing. Yet here we are.

I see you have chosen “wail in impotent despair.”

There is nothing to do. The Dems do not have 50 votes. McConnell can and will ram this through.

Well, the idiocy of the Bernie-or-Bust/Jill Stein left has taken us to the point where the only options are:

In November of 2016, “use a time machine to go back to January” was not an option. “Vote for Hillary Clinton to stop Donald Trump from winning” was. So everyone on the left who was anti-Hillary was in favor of an option that didn’t exist. (And any argument that proposes Jim Webb as the superior option to Hillary…