I'm mildly irritated by Coitus' post not in isolation but because one of my triggers is people who blame Democrats for totally unreasonable things. I have a friend who calls Obama a "centrist NewDem" who chose to "roll over" and give up on the public option. I know people who are hard left and constantly call for Pelosi to go even though her voting record is consistently in the most liberal wing of the party (and consistent with the far left sympathies of her district). It's like watching toddlers, and there are enough real sellouts and quislings that you don't have to make any up.
Liberals that don’t like Pelosi are huge Sonic fans.
IMO she’s the most effective House Leader in a long time and is able to wield a decent amount of power even in the majority. Look at Paul Ryan and look at her and realize she actually knows how to build consensus in her caucus and he doesn’t.
I do think it’s unfortunate special K will get confirmed, but I’m curious how this will affect a bunch of other things:
- will Roberts do some kind of weird centrist face turn to try to save legitimacy of the Supreme Court? I think this is semi-likely where we get a lot of rulings that are designed to have as little precedent as possible. Roberts is not dumb and knows that straight up overturning Roe will be very unpopular on a 5-4 ruling with at least one Justice seen by a plurality of the population as illegitimate.
- I think this probably kills Collins in 2020 assuming anybody decent can run.
- eventually the investigations will be glorious, and it’s possible that more info emerges after he’s confirmed that makes it clear he was a bad decision.
