Tell Carper and Coons to vote NO! on Gorsuch cloture
This morning contributor R.E.V hand-delivered the following letter to the Wilmington office of Senator Carper. Later this week he plans to make a similar trip to Coons with other members of the DL subgroup formed to being the resistance to Senators Carper and Coons doorstep.
Senator Carper,
We understand that you previously voted to confirm Neil M Gorsuch to the federal bench in 2006. Under more stable political circumstances we may understand your consideration of Judge Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I think you would agree that this is not a stable and safe political environment. Considering that Merrick Garland was not even given a proper hearing we strongly urge you to resist any effort to confirm Judge Gorsuch. This includes not providing your vote for cloture and voting no on confirmation should a filibuster be broken.We appreciate that this could be described as “obstructionist.” This is unfortunate but necessary. The federal government is quickly deteriorating into a dangerous embarrassment. Total obstruction is the only appropriate response. This is what we expect.
Best regards,
(It was signed by the DL sub-group formed to take the resistance directly to the offices of Senators Carper and Coons)
If you’d like to join that group and help make trips to the offices of Tom Carper and Chris Coons comment below. If you can’t do that at least call their offices and ask them to vote no on cloture.
Coons Wilmington: 302-573-6345
Carper Wilmington: 302-573-6291
Agree. Time for me to pick up the phone.
This Administration looks more illegitimate by the day. I’m hard-pressed to see how Trump lasts in office for a year or so.
Our senators must not reward this illegitimate despot by granting his nominee a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court. The issue goes even beyond Gorsuch’s fitness for the seat to the legitimacy of the president who nominated him.
” I’m hard-pressed to see how Trump lasts in office for a year or so.”
Because those in the ruling party, who would be the ones to give him the boot, dont care how many people get hurt. They only care about implementing their Ayn Rand agenda. How anyone thinks he doesnt serve his whole term and gets re-elected (when the DNC forces Booker on us as a candidate) is beyond me. we’re doomed.
No, I think the Russia stuff will bring him down. Too much smoke. Including all the $$’s that Trump has gotten from shady Russian characters. I mean, only 60 days in, and look where he is.
Plus, the leaks ain’t stoppin’. And they’re coming from the Trump White House.
As to the ‘ruling party’, all they care about it saving their own political skins. Trump’s already toxic, and they know it. They may start looking for an end game before too much longer.
The staff assistant at the desk who answers the phone is Jacqueline Cameron. She’s affable and helpful. Feel free to refer to the letter and add your name to it if you agree with its sentiment.
Who will “take him down”?
Im not “exactly” trying to argue, but all I see is blind hope and faith in a country that no longer exists. What have the rethugs done to make you think they give a flying fuck about actually holding drump accountable? It was a different set of republicans who got Nixon. This is a new breed.
I fail to see what use it is to discuss these hypotheticals. What you think and hope for. Wish thinking. All that can be done now is act.
“What eludes us is the bankruptcy of the action itself.” —-Harry Belafonte
We have to assume he will be the nominee in 2020. We have to assume most of the masses will have moved on to whatever Kim K is doing. Putting your faith in the likes of McCain is foolish.
“How anyone thinks he doesnt serve his whole term and gets re-elected (when the DNC forces Booker on us as a candidate) is beyond me. we’re doomed.”
First off, if Booker, or any other African American, is the candidate, minority turnout increases, so if you think Booker, of all people, is the worst the Democrats can do, you’re not using enough imagination. More probable is a situation in which the Democrats nominate a white Rust Belt moderate — Hillary Clinton without either the baggage or the charisma. That’s how they lose in 2020, if they manage to screw it up. But this pooch might be unscrewable.
Meanwhile, if the health care repeal passes the Senate — hard to imagine at this point, as the House maniacs will get what they want by passing it in their own chamber even if it dies in the Senate — and is signed into law, the Republicans will have dug their own graves. I forget which wise man of Washington observed the other day, “The loser is whoever moves on health care.” You apparently have missed how much easier it is to play defense than offense in Washington.
If the health care bill passes, Democrats will probably win the House in 2018. And none of that even includes the Russia stuff, which most people aren’t paying all that much attention to.
Meanwhile, if you’re confident in your gloom, you could make more than a few dollars betting on a Trump re-election now.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/will_trump_serve_even_one_term_as_president_the_au.html
I dont think he is the worst they can do. They will likely defy my bleakest expectations and nominate Schumer.
I DO think they, like you seem to want, will play identity politics again and assume that black people only care about skin color when voting and NOT, as Booker has shown, scuzzy corporate ties.
Sorry, but black people have been shown to respond better to black candidates. Denying reality is conservative territory, sporto.
I said Mike Purzycki would win the mayoral election, too, based on exactly that racial breakdown. All you delicate snowflakes slagged me for that, too, because I go by what people actually do instead of by the aspirational things they say.
You want to go on a unicorn hunt, it’s your business. Send us a postcard.
Cory Booker is a grandstander. He is tied into a lot of corporate folks in NY and NJ and friends with Ivanka and Jared. He’s no liberal. Even Bernie jammed him hard when Booker voted no on importing pharmaceuticals from Canada.
I’m really tired of listening to people say that the Republicans will never turn on Trump, that it was a different time with Nixon.
I can’t say BULLSHIT loud enough with all caps. The Republicans did nothing against Nixon for well over a year. Once it became clear that standing by Nixon would doom them as well, they suddenly became concerned.
The same will happen with Trump once vulnerable Republicans realize he’s an anchor on their re-elections. It might take a while, because I believe the current crop of Republicans is stupider than their predecessors, but once they start polling for their own re-election campaigns they’ll wake up quickly.
You don’t seem to appreciate that Republicans can no longer brush away their incompetence by blaming Democrats. Even their own people are starting to get disgusted at the lack of accomplishment.
Their only hope would be to install policies that would actually benefit the country. Because none of those policies look to do that, I don’t think they’re going to have as easy a time staying in office as you think.
but apparently black people dont look past a candidate’s skin color. That’s why Ben Carson is the president. ….. sporto.
@chris: Yeah, I know that. But that’s not what we’re talking about. Ben says Booker would lose. I say he’d win. I don’t like him, I just think he’d win because he has charisma and demographics on his side.
@Ben: That comment couldn’t be stupider. If he had the positions and personality to run as a Democrat, he could have beaten Clinton in the primaries.
A pro tip on arguments: Setting up such a pathetic, obvious binary choice instead of being intellectually honest is the province of people who have never learned to think. Don’t be one of those.
If you want to know what I think, ask. Putting words in my mouth is what a fool does instead — though, to be fair, that’s most people on this site.
Look up the numbers, sporto. Black turnout increases for a black candidate. You want to argue facts, let’s go. On emotional grounds I can’t win, because I can’t hope to compete with your self-hatred.
“that comment is stupid” … “agrees with the comment” well done.
Why would the 53% of white women you love to blame Drumpf for vote for a New Jersey bank crony? What is Booker’s appeal in lilly-white Iowa? New Jersey is known as one of the most corrupt states that isnt Illinois. Why would Michigan voters care?
I dont think he’ll be the nominee. It’s going to be either Warren, or some younger version of Coons. (they will want to run a war-hawk since we’ll be at war with Iran and possible NK come 2020).
@Alby: Yes, and Booker really sucks up to the media. He’s a media darling.
Read the article Politico did on him a while back. A lot of ‘smoke and mirrors’ around his initiatives while he was Mayor when they reviewed them after he left office. They exposed him big time.
Kudos to Alby on his comments. However, I don’t think a corporate democrat will win…Booker is in that category. A progressive like Elizabeth Warren will have a great opportunity. Adam Schiff is proving to be a very smart guy, stable, steady and articulate. Trump will be impeached within one year..my opinion. It could also take Pence, Tillerson, Sessions, et al with him. I put Pence in that category because he lied to the American people over Flynn. As head of Transition he was told Flynn was being investigated and did nothing.
I will never understand why people give so much credit to the GOP. They are safe in their gerrymandered districts. It is not the same as 2006… or even 2012.
The 2018 senate map is a shitshow for Dems. Which 6 seats exactly are they going to pick up?
@Ben: Most House members are in gerrymandered districts — but the only ones who are “safe” are the 50 or so Freedom Caucus folks. The rest have to worry about being primaried from the right. Perhaps you haven’t been keeping up, but the GOP holds about two dozen seats in districts that went for Hillary instead of Trump. The House, not the Senate, is the chamber the Democrats have a real chance of winning.
“Why would the 53% of white women you love to blame Drumpf for vote for a New Jersey bank crony?”
You mean like Obama?
“What is Booker’s appeal in lilly-white Iowa?”
No different than Obama’s. He won there.
“New Jersey is known as one of the most corrupt states that isnt Illinois. Why would Michigan voters care?”
Hillary got 200,000 fewer black voters in Michigan than Obama did. Trump got almost exactly the same number Romney did.
White voters in Michigan don’t matter to Democrats. Black ones do.
True. Even with gerrymandered districts, much better chance at flipping House back in 2018 with winning twenty some seats. 2018 is brutal Senate map.