In elementary school, back in the day, teachers used the method of teaching the entire classroom a lesson if in fact one or two kids misbehaved. The teachers would exact a pound of flesh from all of the student body to demonstrate how bad behavior affects EVERYONE, then try to explain the proper rules and regulations to EVERYONE; even though, most of the time it was the same kids disrupting the classroom. I was one of those good kids as well the majority of my friends and we ALWAYS understood the contract between teacher and student, but could NEVER understand why WE had to be punished for the behavior of those kids who could care less, and try to get away with whatever they wanted for as long as they wanted. Seemed silly to say the least, and a waste of time to say the most.
Now, in 2017, we are being told that just because the Republicans did not obey the rules of the Constitution by permitting a sitting president to nominate a Justice for the Supreme Court, that the Dems, should not be obstructionists and NOT try and Filibuster the Trump nominee Gorsuch. We are being told, that “most Americans want a vote on Gorsuch.” I understand Republican hypocrisy is in fact the new fact of life, but honestly if I hear or read one more pompous person try to explain that if a popular president elected for two terms with majority votes and Electoral College tally’s was not permitted to have his nomination face an up or down vote in Congress…if HE was not given that respect and the people were supposedly NEVER pissed about that…BUT now a man in who is in office due to direct intervention as he and his campaign have colluded with the Russians, whose tax records have not been disclosed and who lost the majority vote by the people…that HIS nominee even being Filibustered is somehow Un-American and some thing that the people expect…I will finally reach my wits end.
Everyday Trump remains in the Oval Office is a new day that a piece of democracy has rotted and died along with freedoms, equality and fairness. Everyday, Trump and the Republicans believe this is not a democracy and refuse to respect “checks and balances”, the planet and its life form begin to suffer. Everyday, Trump remains as the Emperor Puppet, chances for something better hide, never to be found. But, it also seems that the longer the Dems do nothing at all to stop this man, their chances of being our next hope for change also disappear. It seems now, the Dems are going to cower and vote on a Justice, whose record of anti, worker, anti education and LGBT community and anti choice will become a member of the Supreme Court. When I hear the argument that the court should not be a political hack, I have to wonder, how come NOW it is not supposed to be a venue for politics, when in the past year, that was all the Republican leadership plotted and planned.
