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bucolic_frolic

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2. We don't need more dialogue. We're not being listened to.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 06:49 AM

Dec 5

We need to exercise power when we have it, and create it when we don't.

'Mitch, if you don't advise and consent within 30 days, you will have waived your right and my Justice is seated.'

That's power. And SCOTUS at that time might well have gone along.

Power. That's what politics is about. Democrats need to abandon reconciliation as a goal. It's a tool, not an end game.

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