The Dems or GOP? I don’t think they got how serious Mitch was about not giving them the court or they would have just said f it.
The Dems obviously
They didn’t get the stakes
Then why did they nuke it for other judges? The SCOTUS carve out was clearly a fig leaf because they didn’t have a seat open at the time. Say what you will about Harrah’s Reid but he understood the stakes and was willing to use his power to get it done when it came to judges/justices.
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I don’t think they thought a nominee would be blocked. I also don’t think they wanted the GOP to only need 50 votes to put a psycho on the court. They blew it sorry.
Lol, they did the very thing you said they wouldn’t because the GOP wouldn’t let them appoint judges to the lower courts. Sorry we don’t live in your fantasy world with sitting Senator Jon Tester and people facing consequences for the Epstein files. And the only one that blew it was RBG but god willing she’s at least burning in hell with Scalia.
Your thinking is warped on this sorry
Lol, ok bud, enjoy living in your fact free world. Maybe go get dunked on by Alex and Clovis for a bit and take a break from looking like a fool here.
lol that shows how warped your thinking is thinking they’re dunking on me. They absolutely are not. I don’t know why you have a rage boner for me but it is very unwarranted. I can never get in a conversation without you immediately insulting me or completely misrepresenting my positions. Have a nice life.
He passed a massive expansion of heathcare policy despite considerable GOP opposition.
Sure, Presidents have a lot of power, but the SCOTUS is designed from the ground up to be politically independent. RBG did not have a constituency like Manchin did, she never had to worry about elections or opinion polls the way Senators do. Which is why none of you guys can offer a single specific thing Obama could have actually done to force her out.
Also, why doesn’t Trump force out the justices who vote against him? Why aren’t you mad that Obama didn’t force out Clarence Thomas? Why doesn’t every president use his Incredible Sway Powers to strong-arm the Supreme Court into voting the way they want?
Not really the Democrats doing something right but registered Democratic Party voters
From Maine to California, progressive and centrist forces have collided in an unusual, even unprecedented, number of primaries for local, state and congressional offices that have divided the party along ideological, and often generational, lines.
“The formal party structure is getting weaker and outside groups are getting stronger,” said Liam Kerr, co-founder of Welcome, a group working to support Democratic centrists, in a judgment echoed by many progressive activists. “We have not been in a place (before) where entire ecosystems of groups are effectively running parties within the parties in explicit, direct, factional warfare.”
These confrontations have not produced a knockout victory for either side. On balance, though, the left so far has outpointed the center in these contests — an advantage it could widen if several Mamdani-endorsed congressional candidates win in New York, as is expected. “This has been a banner year for progressive candidates and the progressive movement,” said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, the political organization founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders. “We’re seeing a lot of grassroots electoral energy.”
Actual eDem view is we need to move more to the center if we hope to repeat last election’s success.
But Democratic centrists correctly point out that a significant majority of the successful progressive primary candidates are winning in safely Democratic areas. In the competitive seats that will decide control of the House and Senate, the party still largely relies on moderate nominees. And for those candidates, the left’s rise even in safe seats could prove an unwelcome complication.
“There’s a difference between winning in a safe Democratic House district and being competitive nationally, and that’s the tension within the party,” said John Lawrence, who served as Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff while she was House speaker.
“I have no doubt the left will… say they are the ascendant wing and there will be presidential candidates in 2028 who feel the need to lurch leftward,” said Lis Smith, who advised Pete Buttigieg in 2020. But, she continued, Democratic hopefuls should “learn the lessons” of 2020: “What performs best in deep-blue districts and social media isn’t always what wins elections, and isn’t even always what performs best with the base.”
Evergreen idea in the Edem brain. There are many problems but only one solution.
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Democrats should campaign towards the center but govern towards the left is the way I’m leaning.
According to my dad it was a compromise and he could’ve done more. But I don’t know enough about it to argue the point
No one is saying they hold away over members of an opposing party. But a sitting president could absolutely pressure someone with one foot in the grave to do the right thing and step down and make way for a younger justice. Not sure why you think differently. Hasn’t Trump already done this?
You should ask your boss what he thought of Obama’s efforts on the ACA and how it made him feel. Obama could not have gotten more unless he choked out Joe Lieberman and forged his name or vote or if Kennedy didn’t die and was replaced by a Republican in Massachusetts to specifically stop single payer.
You just have no concept of how mad the right was about this.
What made the right most mad was using reconciliation to ‘jam’ it through not getting 60 votes.
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How? You guys keep telling me over and over that he absolutely could have done this but no one has any actual idea how.
No, Trump has not forced out any members of the Supreme Court.
Technically he forced out Kennedy who is still alive 8 years later
Nah. Kennedy just cared more about keeping his party in power.
Trump blackmailed him over his son
In the real world campaigning towards the left and governing towards the center is what happens because politicians are generally more directly held accountable by big donors than little voters.