{"id":754,"date":"2017-03-24T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2017\/03\/24\/the-only-proper-response-to-schumers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:27:33","slug":"the-only-proper-response-to-schumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"The Only Proper Response To Schumer&#8217;s Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWith the confirmation hearings of Judge Neil Gorsuch coming to a close, Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing-to-focus-today-on-testimony-from-friends-foes\/2017\/03\/23\/14d21116-0fc7-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.51efecfb5f49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has announced that he will oppose the confirmation and will encourage his fellow Democrats to filibuster the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>In announcing his confrontational approach, Schumer said that Gorsuch \u201cwas unable to sufficiently convince me that he\u2019d be an independent check\u201d on Trump. Schumer said later that the judge is \u201cnot a neutral legal mind but someone with a deep-seated conservative ideology,\u201d hand-picked for Trump by conservative legal groups.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas C. Goldstein, a Supreme Court practitioner and co-founder of SCOTUSblog, said that Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee did not present a compelling case that Gorsuch was either an illegitimate nominee or that he was outside the conservative mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the Democrats set the table\u201d for a filibuster, Goldstein said. He speculated that one option for some Democrats would be to allow an up-or-down vote, and then to vote against confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Schumer, Sens. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.), Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced Thursday that they would filibuster Gorsuch. Casey is one of 10 Democratic senators running next year in a state that Trump won.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I have serious doubts about the spine of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), I think his only proper response to Schumer&#8217;s threat to filibuster the nomination of a supremely qualified candidate like Judge Gorsuch is this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-22tna7KHzI?ecver=1\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8220;Nuke&#8217;em back to the Stone Age!&#8221; or at least back to 1917 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/briefing\/Filibuster_Cloture.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cloture of filibusters<\/a> was first introduced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curtis_LeMay#In_popular_culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While it is a misquotation of Gen. Curtis LeMay<\/a>, it still has a resonance to it. Those ten Democrats who represent states carried by President Trump may want to heed the warning implied by that threat.<\/p>\n<p>Another threat those Democrats may want to pay attention to came from Chris Cox of the NRA-ILA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/nra-will-target-democrats-who-vote-against-gorsuch\/article\/2618235#.WNSSQcD4E90.facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cox sent a letter to McConnell and Schumer &nbsp;on March 17th<\/a> saying that Judge Gorsuch has the full backing of the NRA and that they will be scoring the vote on his confirmation. If senators such as Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) or Joe Donnelly (D-IN) don&#8217;t think the NRA won&#8217;t go full scorched earth on them if they vote against Judge Gorsuch, then they are living in a Beltway induced dreamworld.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the confirmation hearings of Judge Neil Gorsuch coming to a close, Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1612,1601,1404,92,1602,9],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-schumer","tag-judge-neil-gorsuch","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-nra-ila","tag-nuclear-option","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11013,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}