RE: God Help Amy Coney Barrett!
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unprecedented scramble to confirm her in the Senate before Election Day.
Which is in fact an accurate statement. Since there has never been a case of confirming a SCOTUS Justice this close to a Presidential election, it is, by definition, an unprecedented situation. Unprecedented is not a pejorative.
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Okay @preparedwombat, we apparently don't view this the same way and that is fine. For the record, my use of the word unprecedented is tied in to several oped posts I have written in 2020, mostly related to COVID-19. Perhaps we can at least agree the events of 2020 are "unprecedented?" Certainly in our lifetimes?
I don't know if that is true or not, but I will take you at your word, as that doesn't matter to me.
But for those for whom it is important, like yourself? Question for you: Say Clinton is the President and Schumer is the Majority Leader of the Senate. What would they do?
Probably feel in no rush to muddy the waters en route to a second term?
I doubt that Clinton would have been as incompetent as Trudeau has been, but even if she’d had been so incompetent as to allow a Canadian-style death rate, we’d be at 100k dead rather than 200k dead.
I appreciate the fact you ended your response with a question mark @preparedwombat. You and I can agree that, of course, we have no way of knowing. That said, I do not believe there is any question of what they would do. While God only knows what "the story" would be to cover their decision, it would be identical. For the same reasons ...
Thanks for stopping by and providing your perspective! 👋