Corporate Democrats Cool With Republicans Stealing Supreme Court

WE HAVEN'T GONE DJANGO UNCHAINED IN A WHILE, LET'S HAVE
SOME FUN.
I RESERVE THIS FOR TWO CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT
DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE DECIDED I KNOW THE REPUBLICANS BLOCKED
MERRICK GARLAND FOR ABOUT A YEAR, BUT WE SHOULD BE NICE TO
THEM AND GIVE THEM THE NOMINEE THEY WANT AND NOT BLOCK HIM AT
ALL.
REALLY?
THE DEMOCRATS COWERING IN FRONT OF
REPUBLICANS?
I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE.
LET'S GO TO THE
CONCESSION STAND, FIRST WE FIND HEIDI HEITKAMP THERE, SHE IS
FROM NORTH DAKOTA.
SHE SAYS --
THEY ALWAYS MAKE IT SOUND SO REASONABLE.
I'VE BEEN SO
CONSISTENT.
BUT HAVE THE REPUBLICANS?
WHEN THEY BLOCKED
MERRICK GARLAND, DID YOU INSIST THEY NOT BE HYPOCRITICAL AND
FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION?
NO, YOU KIND OF JUST DROPPED IT.
NO BIG
DEAL THAT BY NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BLOCK THEIR
JUDGE, WELL, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO BE NICE, THEY WEREN'T
NICE TO US, THAT'S TRUE, THEY DID NOT FULFILLED THEIR
CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES.
BUT INSTEAD OF TWO CAN PLAY THAT
GAME AND IF YOU BLOCK OUR NOMINEE WE WOULD LIKE YOURS, NO,
GOLLY GEE, I'M GOING TO BE CONSISTENT.
GO AHEAD, PUT ANYONE
IN.
THAT SENATOR HEITKAMP, IF YOU DO THAT, MAYBE YOU ARE
ENCOURAGING THE REPUBLICANS TO PICK THE RULES EVERY TIME?
AND
WHENEVER YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT YOU WON'T GET YOUR SOUP IN COURT
NOMINEE, AND THEY WILL SAY IT DOESN'T MATTER?
ALL THOSE
RIGHT-WING DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO VOTE WITH US NO MATTER WHAT
WE DO.
WE CAN SPIT IN THEIR FACE, WE CAN SLAP THEM ACROSS
THE FACE, WE CAN DENY THEM THEIR NOMINEE FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR AND
THEY WILL COME BACK SMILING.
OKAY, TO GET YOUR NOMINEE
ANYWAY.
SHE WENT ON TO SAY --
WELL, IT WASN'T ABOUT POLITICS WHEN THE REPUBLICANS DID IT.
SO
DON'T PRETEND YOU ARE ABOVE POLITICS.
HERE IS WHAT SENATOR
HEITKAMP IS DOING -- PLAYING POLITICS.
BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP
WON FOR HOME STATE SO NOW SHE'S INCREDIBLY SCARED BECAUSE ALL
THESE ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS ACT OUT OF INCREDIBLE FEAR AND
COWARDICE.
PLUS THEIR DONORS LOVE GORSUCH.
HE LOVES CITIZENS
UNITED, HE IS MORE PRO-CORPORATE THAN EVEN THE MOST PRO-CORPORATE
SUPREME COURT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY, THAT IS THE CURRENT
ONE. AND GORSUCH IS WAY MORE CORPORATE THAN THEY ARE.
SO
DEMOCRATS ARE LIKE, GORSUCH, TWIST OUR ARM, GO AHEAD, HEIDI.
I'M ABOUT POLITICS, I DIDN'T LOOK AT THE POLLING IN NORTH
DAKOTA AT ALL BEFORE I MADE THIS DECISION, I DIDN'T TALK TO MY
CORPORATE DONORS AT ALL, GOLLY GEE, I'M ABOUT POLITICS.
MY ASS,
YOU ARE ABOVE POLITICS.
AND WHEN WE PRIMARY YOU, YOU WILL BE
BELOW POLITICS.
NOW I WILL GO TO JOE MANCHIN, AND IF YOU THINK
THESE GUYS AREN'T EATING PRIMARY, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
POLITICS.
WE WERE PRIMARY THE HELL OUT OF THESE PEOPLE, AND I
MEAN OF COURSE PROGRESSIVES AT LARGE, IF JUSTICE DEMOCRATS
DIDN'T DO IT SOMEONE ELSE DID, THEY WOULD BE NEGLIGENT NOT TO.
JUSTICEDEMOCRATS.COM, HEIDI HEITKAMP, HOW ARE YOU DOING?
AND JOE MANCHIN FROM WEST
VIRGINIA, WE HAVE A PRIMARY
COMING YOUR WAY TOO.
LISTEN TO THIS GUY EXCUSING ALL THE THINGS
REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE, SMILING AND TELLING THEM GO AHEAD, I'M
OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
IN THE PAST YOU SAID YOU WOULD NOT FILIBUSTER, IS THAT STILL
YOUR VIEW?
WE SHOULD HAVE AN UP OR DOWN VOTE, THAT IS JUST MY BELIEF.
UNLESS YOU HAVE STRONG OPPOSITION.
WE'VE GOT TO FIND A
WAY TO PRESERVE THE SENATE.
THE SENATE BASICALLY STARTED
BASICALLY COMING APART WHEN HARRY REID DID THE NUCLEAR
OPTION, WHICH PUT A 51 VOTE THRESHOLD.
THAT IS NOT WHAT THE
FOUNDING FATHERS DECIDED FOR THIS BODY.
ARE YOU AFRAID, SENATOR, THAT REPUBLICANS WILL DO THAT VERY
SAME THING?
I WOULD BE CONCERNED THAT IF THEY DON'T GET A CLOTURE VOTE,
THAT COULD HAPPEN.
THEY WILL SAY YOU ALL DID IT ON ALL THE UNDER
-- THE FEDERAL JUDGES, WE WILL DO IT FOR SUPREME COURT TOO.
HOW
DO YOU PRESERVE THE INPUT THE MINORITY SHOULD HAVE?
BECAUSE
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE DOING
NOW.
THE DEMOCRATS WERE IN CONTROL AND THEY TOOK CARE OF THE
NUCLEAR OPTION, WHICH THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE.
I'M THE ONLY ONE STILL IN THE SENATE ON THE DEMOCRAT SIDE THAT
VOTED AGAINST WHAT HARRY WANTED TO DO, I THOUGHT IT WAS WRONG.
THAT
SOUNDS LIKE YOU DON'T WANT TO JOIN A FILIBUSTER, SENATOR.
I'M NOT A BIG FILIBUSTER GUY TO BEGIN WITH.
GOLLY GEE, I WILL LET THE REPUBLICANS DO ANYTHING TO ME.
THIS GUY IS A THEORETICAL DEMOCRAT, LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT HE
WAS SAYING.
DURING THE OBAMA YEARS, REPUBLICANS BROKE THE
RECORD ON OBSTRUCTION, THEY BROKE THE NUMBER OF FILIBUSTERS,
I THINK THEY DOUBLED OR TRIPLED THE NUMBER OF FILIBUSTERS THAT
WAS THE PREVIOUS RECORD.
THEY BLOCKED EVERYTHING THEY COULD.
SO FINALLY NEAR THE END, BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE IDIOTS, THEY
WAITED SIX YEARS, RIGHT BEFORE THEY LOST THEIR MAJORITY, IN
THEIR INFINITE STUPIDITY, THEY WAITED AND WAITED, THEY LET THEM
BLOCK EVERYTHING, DID JOE MANCHIN COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT?
NO,
THAT'S HIS REPUBLICAN BUDDIES, HE LOVES WHEN THEY BLOCK STUFF.
SO AT THE END HARRY REID AND THE DEMOCRATS TOOK AWAY THE
FILIBUSTER FOR EVERYTHING BUT THE SUPREME COURT WHEN IT COMES
TO NOMINEES.
SO MANCHIN SAYS IT IS THE DEMOCRATS' FAULT.
WHICH
PARTY ARE YOU IN?
WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION THE REPUBLICANS?
RECORD
BRICKING OBSTRUCTIONISM?
YOU DIDN'T MENTION IT BECAUSE YOU
WORK FOR THEM.
YOU THINK HAVING THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRAT IS
HELPFUL WHEN HE COMES OUT AND GIVES REPUBLICANS BIPARTISAN
COVER TO GO I'M A DEMOCRAT, AND I AGREE REPUBLICANS ARE AWESOME,
IT IS ALL THE DEMOCRATS' FAULT, THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT
EARLIER?
NOW WHEN THEY SAY -- WHEN THEY PRESERVE THE
FILIBUSTER IN THE CASE OF THE SUPREME COURT, AND REPUBLICANS
HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS, ESPECIALLY
WHEN THEY'RE IN THE MINORITY, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT NOW?
GOLLY, I WOULDN'T WANT TO FORCE REPUBLICANS TO TAKE IT AWAY.
WE
HAVE TO PRESERVE OUR RIGHTS IN THE MINORITY.
IF YOU PROMISE YOU
AREN'T GOING TO FILIBUSTER, AS YOU SEEM TO INDICATE, WHAT
RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE?
IF YOU SAY I DON'T WANT THEM TO TAKE AWAY THE
FILIBUSTER, HENCE I NEVER WILL FILIBUSTER, THEN GUESS WHAT, JOE
-- YOU DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT.
WHY ARE YOU PRESERVING IT?
AT
LEAST LET THEM DO THE THINGS THAT WILL LOOK SO BAD TO THE
REST OF THE PUBLIC TO RUN OVER THE MINORITY.
IF THEY ARE GOING
TO GET GORSUCH THEY SHOULD HAVE TO RUN OVER YOU.
HE IS NOT DONE YET, HE'S GOT MORE.
I DON'T EXPECT AS A DEMOCRAT THAT HE'S GOING TO APPEASE A LOT
OF DEMOCRATS, BECAUSE OF HIS PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEFS.
BUT GUESS
WHAT -- THE DEMOCRATS, WE DIDN'T WIN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
YOU DON'T EXPECT TO GET A CENTER LEFT -- IS HE TO FAR
RIGHT, OR CENTER RIGHT?
I THINK THEY UNDERSTAND THEY ARE GOING
TO GET CENTER RIGHT.
IS HE TO FAR RIGHT?
HE IS REPLACING
SCALIA, YOU CAN LOOK AT IT AND SAY IS HE MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN
SCALIA?
IF HE FITS IN THE SAME WHEELHOUSE YOU CAN JUSTIFY
IT AND SAY THAT FITS THE SAME PARAMETER OF WHO HE IS
REPLACING.
IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE READY TO VOTE YES.
LET'S SAY I'M A VERY OPEN-MINDED PERSON.
THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE OPEN ABOUT JOE MANCHIN.
LET'S JUST BE
POLITE, SAYING HE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
I HAVE NOT SEEN A
REPUBLICAN DELIVERED REPUBLICAN TALKING POINT AS WELL AS
SO-CALLED DEMOCRAT JOE MANCHIN.
HE COULD NOT HELP THEM MORE IF
HE WAS A REPUBLICAN.
HE GOES ON THE MEDIA AND SAYS REPUBLICANS
ARE RIGHT, DEMOCRATS ARE IDIOTS, HE IS JUST LIKE SCALIA.
OKAY,
FURTHERMORE, GORSUCH IS CONSIDERED MORE CONSERVATIVE
THAN SCALIA, MIGHT BE THE MOST CONSERVATIVE JUSTICE WE HAVE
EVER HAD. AND WHAT DOES MANCHIN SAY?
HE IS CENTER RIGHT.
YOU
CAN'T DO REPUBLICAN TALKING POINTS BETTER THAN THAT.
THEY
ARE EMBARRASSED TO SAY HE CENTER RIGHT, BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW FAR
RIGHT HE IS.
BUT HERE IS JOE MANCHIN, THEORETICALLY A
DEMOCRAT, CENTER RIGHT, HE FITS THAT.
THEY SAY WE DIDN'T WIN.
REPUBLICANS DIDN'T WIN AGAINST OBAMA BUT THEY BLOCKED HIS
NOMINEE FOR CLOSE TO A YEAR.
THEY DIDN'T WIN, OBAMA WON.
WHERE YOU THEN, JOE MANCHIN?
SITTING ON YOUR ASS, TALKING
ABOUT HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS AND THAT.
OKAY,
HE SAYS NOW HE'S ALL GUNG HO, HEROES FIGHTING DEMOCRATS.
WHEN
IT COMES TO REPUBLICANS, HE COWERS.
I HAVE THE SAME DONORS
AS YOU, HERE IS YOUR GORSUCH NOMINEE, BUT WHEN HE SAYS TO
DEMOCRATS HE'S NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO A PRIMARY.
BE CAREFUL
WHAT YOU WISH FOR, SON, BECAUSE YOU ARE GETTING ONE.
JUSTICE
DEMOCRATS, WE WILL FIND A GREAT CITIZEN OF WEST VIRGINIA AND
NORTH DAKOTA INCOME FOR THESE GUYS, BECAUSE THEY DON'T HELP,
THEY ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE AT ALL.
YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A DEMOCRAT
AND THEN GO DO EXACTLY WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WANT, THAT DOESN'T
HELP PROGRESSIVE CAUSES.
THAT HEALTH REPUBLICANS, BECAUSE THEY
CAN GO JOE MANCHIN AND HEIDI HEITKAMP, THE REASONABLE
DEMOCRATS, DID EXACTLY AS WE PAID THEM TO DO.
THEY BOWED
THEIR HEADS AND PRETEND THAT THEY ARE STRONG.
YOU HAVEN'T
SEEN STRONG YET.
YOU WILL SEE IT SOON, THOUGH.
WE WILL SEE YOU
IN THE PRIMARIES.

Corporate Democrats Cool With Republicans Stealing Supreme Court

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