When I was in the Navy, a good friend, a guy from the South, would sometimes walk around our living compartment grinning, giggling, shaking his head and saying "Ah swear, ah swear!" Well, today I've been doing the same, ah swear, ah swear and all thanks to Charles Schumer. The news today said he called President Trump and urged him to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. I can just imagine how that call went:
"Hello, Donal. . . uhh, Mr. President, this is Chuck Schumer." "Oh hi Chuck, pretty nice day huh, at least in my 'judgement' ". " Oh, well I suppose so but lets get down to business shall we? Now 'fair's fair', I think and Nancy and I realize you're not going to delay the nomination, even though this being an election year, you should, you know. I mean if we are going to lose the confirmation battle it would have hurt less to lose it 55 to 45 you know. So look, why don't you cut us some slack and nominate poor old Merrick Garland. He took a big political hit for Barack; I mean, imagine being a lawyer and being nominated to the pinnacle of our profession, SCOTUS, of all things and knowing its a sham. Now I know I'll never be nominated so I don't have to worry about being disappointed. I'll settle for defacto President when my little Kirsten girl beats you in 2020. Anyway, Mr. President, c'mon you know its the right thing to do. Do this for me and I'll owe you ok? Aw you know we'd pay you back. After all, its not as if elections have consequences now is it?"
"Well gee, Chuck, I don't know that I could see clear to doing that. If you remember, Mitch threw in the monkey wrench on Merrick's situation because we had good reason to expect you guys would turn SCOTUS into a somewhat leftist ehhh, 'tribunal', so to speak, I mean say it ain't so, right? And, well, we weren't about to let that happen. You'll remember you supplied us the procedural precedent to do that just a little while back. You and I are both old enough to remember how your side raised the stakes over the last 50 years and how you've gone for the jugular you know. We're on kind of a tear right now and we may have the means to keep your people away from our jugular. You don't really think we'd pass that up do ya? Now you guys would have gone for it if Hill hadn't fluffed. And, ya know, youse haven't been very nice to me since I won. But wait, you know all that don't ya? Oh you kid! You always were a joker back in those Bronx vs Brooklyn days. I remember the time you put the stink bomb in my lunch box. Oh man, you were a kick!"
"I see what you're doing. You know its a stretch now don't you, that you have any chance of denying me my thing - to restore the Court to its proper role and you know what a downer that will be for you all because you really don't have much of a knack for getting the real America to go for your crazy ideas through their elected representatives. So you're willing to try anything right? I have to admit I've been looking forward to seeing you squirm; you have caused me some bad times. Oh, you might just succeed in Borking my nominee but I'll just send another one with the same convictions and I'll wear ya down Chuck. So, thanks but no thanks and I'm sure that's what you expected to hear. Bye now."
Can Schumer derive any advantage from this preposterous proposal? I doubt it; he's getting desperate. He knows this appointment , paired with the departure of one of the four radicals likely before 2024, probably seals the deal; there won't be an "October Revolution" in America. And what else has his ilk been been working for, I ask you?
We just learned EPA Director Scott Pruitt was a casualty of the relentless leftist ad hominem onslaught. In war there will surely be casualties and I do not grudge Mr. Pruitt his retirement from it. He did much good. But now surely, the President will, in the throes of despair, appoint Al Gore as his successor. Now that the dragon has been slain the good old earth and all its minions rejoice in final victory. EPA is theirs!Global warming manifestos will take their place alongside the Declaration of Independence in hermetically sealed display cases as we follow, in childlike rapture, Al's clarion call out of town. Goodbye coal, goodbye oil, goodbye natural gas, hello 10th/22d century. Right! Jack
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Jack, Chuck has a great sense of humor, doesn't he? I feel a bit bad for him, though. It's his job to "Bork" every Trump judicial nominee, as you so memorably put it, and he just can't get it done. It's thus pure political theater what we're seeing now. Really what he needs, to keep his left flank vaguely manageable, is to put on a good show of "Resistance". So be it. It's results that we patriots care about, and we're seeing plenty of those!
Dr. Waddy: This may be 1864 and Grant may be in the saddle. The election that year about finished it and that could be true this year in Civil WarII.
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