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He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego ahead of the will of the American people. This coward should do the right thing and resign.”

Wouldn't it be cool if "Deep Throat II" is actually Sarah!

So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over.

We need to come up with a name for the anonymous Op Ed author that will capture the imaginations of the generation they way "Deep Throat" did for Nixon...

I listened to a few of hours of the Kavanaugh hearings yesterday. He came off pretty well there, better than some of the Democrats.

He said he admires Scalia, but then Ginsberg admires Scalia, too. He respects precedent, and explained some of his prior decisions were based on existing precedent. He seems strong on civil rights, he mentioned the importance of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments several times. He thinks Brown v. Board of Education was one of the most important decisions in our history.

He certainly didn't sound like a Trump puppet. Seems like a good chance he'll be another Souter or Warren, someone who might surprise his supporters.

Thats your only hope for a right wing activist court.

So what makes you happy about this?

Kavanaugh argued the only Supreme Court case of his career, claiming that he could compel Foster’s lawyer to turn over notes on their conversation shortly before Foster’s death. (The Court rejected that argument, 6-3, with conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist writing that attorney-client privilege precluded the notes’ release, and Kavanaugh’s former boss Kennedy joining the majority.)

Umm, think you got that turned around a bit. It's the lefties that are for "activist" courts, the conservatives simply "call the balls and strikes" as Roberts put it.

DB, I understand your analogy and agree with your assessment, "terribly broken" it is. But to clarify, a general cannot start a war, nor can a president, only congress can. Part of what is happening here is a president that refuses to learn the basic rules of how his position in office should function. The president thinks he can do anything he wants, like start a war or circumvent the basic process of the rule of law. It was pretty obvious from his first month in office that he either didn't understand basic civics or he choose to ignore it. And as his term has wore on It's becoming painfully obvious that the president is mentally compromised. But the 25th amendment is designed more to deal with physical incapacitation of a President, not one that is mentally ill. That's probably why the cabinet didn't evoke it. Since the line of mental illness is a hard one to prove as anyone that has had to deal with a mentally ill relative can attest. I bet those in the WH recognized it sooner and have been trying to cover it up so has not to loose the advantage they have republican white house. I've also wondered if the reason he plays so much golf (as has been reported) is because is staff is encouraging him to get out of the office and otherwise occupied like giving an unruly tot a rattle. The chain of command is broken in the executive branch of our government, that much is sure. And it worries me that there is no transparency while the "hidden resistance" (is this the deep state?) runs things. They may think that are advancing the greater good, but at the cost of undermining the way things should operate. As long as "they" continue to allow his behavior, they enabled it providing and approval it. From Trumps first day in office I did not know why his twitter account wasn't commandeered in the name of national security. I expected all Tweets to be by committee from the White house team... not from an impetuous ranting individual. But he continues to Tweet, to what end? As a smoke screen for something else. either way its terribly broken.

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That has always been such a huge load of simplistic bullsh#t.

Conservatives judges are every bit as activist as liberals.

Supreme Court rarely get easy cases, and all require complex judgments beyond determining the strike zone. Roberts spoke nonsense when he said that at his confirmation hearing.