A Year Ago Yesterday
Antonin Scalia died a year ago yesterday, and the GOP leadership refused to allow President Obama to appoint a replacement with almost a year of his Presidency remaining.
This "in your face" opposition and disrespect wasn't something new for Republicans in office. They treated President Obama as an interloper and fought with Democrats at every moment, not doing their job and working with the people who should have been their brothers in arms, their esteemed colleagues. (Remember that phrase?)
And the people who permitted and approved this dismantling of the wheels of government and this kind of willful sabotage of a fairly-elected President wrought what we have now--a bullying despot with no respect for or even understanding of what it means to be the President of the US.
As Malcolm once said, "The chickens have come home to roost."
And Americans have to decide anew--are you going to continue to embrace the unacceptable in the name of party or are you going to say, "Enough!"
A year ago yesterday, Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell defiantly fought a President who recognized who Putin is, who was a President of all the people, who understood the Constitution, who appointed men (and women) of intellectual heft and serious temperament, whose much-decried Executive Orders were painstakingly considered and legal, who behaved at all times with decency and compassion and wisdom.
I look at what we lost...and what too many people considered a superior replacement...and I am both furious and bereft.
And I beg Democratic senators to stand strong and do whatever they must to hold off on a SC nominee until we have a President who can be trusted to make appointments that won't further bring down our democracy.
This "in your face" opposition and disrespect wasn't something new for Republicans in office. They treated President Obama as an interloper and fought with Democrats at every moment, not doing their job and working with the people who should have been their brothers in arms, their esteemed colleagues. (Remember that phrase?)
And the people who permitted and approved this dismantling of the wheels of government and this kind of willful sabotage of a fairly-elected President wrought what we have now--a bullying despot with no respect for or even understanding of what it means to be the President of the US.
As Malcolm once said, "The chickens have come home to roost."
And Americans have to decide anew--are you going to continue to embrace the unacceptable in the name of party or are you going to say, "Enough!"
A year ago yesterday, Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell defiantly fought a President who recognized who Putin is, who was a President of all the people, who understood the Constitution, who appointed men (and women) of intellectual heft and serious temperament, whose much-decried Executive Orders were painstakingly considered and legal, who behaved at all times with decency and compassion and wisdom.
I look at what we lost...and what too many people considered a superior replacement...and I am both furious and bereft.
And I beg Democratic senators to stand strong and do whatever they must to hold off on a SC nominee until we have a President who can be trusted to make appointments that won't further bring down our democracy.