Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia died (no doubt murdered
by Donald Trump is a rage over competing comb overs).
Scalia was a dim bulb and an ideologue of
the worst sort.
A Twitter Egg. I man who could barely string together a coherent series of
ideas, and instead parroted talk radio bromides peppered with anachronistic
slang in an attempt to sound interesting. He was a man with no ethical center,
and no true judicial core. He ranted about originialism and textualism, then
created, out of whole cloth, an individual right to own machine guns. He loved
the original text of the constitution in it was useful in oppressing the poor
and minorities and ignored it when it got in the way of his corporate gods.
None of that I really important here, though.
Scalia’s replacement is what we must be interested in. The
Repulicans had an easy path before them:
1.
Pretend to play ball
2.
Go slow
3.
Vote down every nominee that Obama offered.
That is all they needed to do. They would
get what they wanted, and it would cost them nothing. Instead, in what can only
be called an unforced error, they began (within minutes of Scalia’s demise)
screaming that they would defy the constitution, shut down the system and fuck
everyone. They threw a tantrum. Now they have to pay the price.
The price will likely be a Democratic
Senate.
And, as for Scalia’s replacement? The
possibilities are (in Descending order):
Hillary Clinton picks a liberal
Bernie Sanders picks a Super-Liberal
Donald Trump picks Kanye West
Have at it
