laklak wrote:I don't think so, he's only got a 1 seat margin in the Senate, and at least 4 Republican Senators have said they won't support an anti-abortion candidate. He needs to get this through before the mid-term elections, in case the Dems take control of the Senate. I think the Blue Wave is over-hyped, but the GOP still stands a very real chance of losing the Senate. The key is finding someone liberal enough to support R-v-W but conservative enough to appeal to the mouth-breathers. Not an easy task.

laklak wrote:No need to re-register, once you're on the voting roll you stay there.

Alan C wrote:

laklak wrote:No need to re-register, once you're on the voting roll you stay there.

Unless you live in Ohio it seems
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... urt-ruling

Macdoc wrote:I really don't understand why they would not wait tho maybe they do see the Blue Wave which tho was fading a bit is very likely highly energized now with RW at risk.

I find it interesting the internal fracturing of the Democrats....dinosaurs like Pelosi need to be shunted to caves in the back and told to shut the fuck up.

Seabass wrote:

Alan C wrote:

laklak wrote:No need to re-register, once you're on the voting roll you stay there.

Unless you live in Ohio it seems
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... urt-ruling

And of course, many red states plan to follow suit.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh two years ago expressed his desire to overturn a three-decade-old Supreme Court ruling upholding the constitutionality of an independent counsel, a comment bound to get renewed scrutiny in his confirmation proceedings to sit on the high court.

Speaking to a conservative group in 2016, Kavanaugh bluntly said he wanted to "put the final nail" in a 1988 Supreme Court ruling. That decision, known as Morrison v. Olson, upheld the constitutionality of provisions creating an independent counsel under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act -- the same statute under which Ken Starr, for whom Kavanaugh worked, investigated President Bill Clinton. The law expired in 1999, when it was replaced by the more modest Justice Department regulation that governs special counsels like Robert Mueller.

...

but she doesn’t have to be appealing to the Democratic Party across the country, just her district in California,

What’s more, Pelosi is still a driving force for the Republican Party — in a bad way for Democrats. In the most recent special election in Georgia last Tuesday, Republican Karen Handel put out a slew of ads featuring Pelosi, not her opponent, Jon Ossoff. She made the case that if the Democrat won in the 6th District of Georgia, Pelosi would really be running the show. Handel won handily.

The GOP plans to run directly at Pelosi in 2018, tying House candidates to the Democratic leader. “This midterm is going to be a referendum on Nancy Pelosi and her San Francisco liberal values. That’s what the elections are going to be about. We saw a little glimpse of that on Tuesday,” Congressional Leadership Fund Executive Director Corry Bliss told The Hill.

So, for Republicans, Pelosi sticking around to fight is good news.

For America, not so much.

chango369 wrote:Worth watching.