The Spectator: "There is no crisis. Fill the seat."
From SPECTATOR.US
When you have power in Washington DC, use it. That saying is true for both parties. There has been much distress on social media in the past few hours, with people declaring that a Supreme Court vacancy prior to this election will tear the country apart, putting unimaginable stress on the Republic as it attempts to hold together in the face of Trumpism. TikTok users are screaming into their phones while driving. CNN personalities are threatening to ‘burn the entire thing down’ if Mitch McConnell attempts to push through a nominee. Writer Laura Bassett proclaimed that ‘if McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.’ That seems a threat more than a prediction. Even writers at the supposed ‘real conservative’ website the Bulwark warned of a political crisis, where the only way out would ‘require the prudential coordination of elites’.
It’s all nonsense. There is no crisis. Fill the seat.
For those imagining a crisis into existence, don’t fret: the process will play out. The President will nominate a replacement. The Senate Majority Leader will call for a vote and the Senate body will vote to confirm or deny. There’s not a single thing Twitter busybodies, rioters, media personalities or Democrats in the minority party can do to stop it. Nothing.
The national media is already doing its best to shame members of the GOP-led Senate for their position on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 following the death of Antonin Scalia. The process worked just as it was designed then as well. The Senate is not a subservient body to the President and the executive. Advice and consent is very clear and is meant as a powerful check on power, should voters decide in favor of a divided government. That’s the way things are. Deal with it.
In the coming weeks, there will be hundreds of journalists and Democrats unearthing clips of supposed rank hypocrisy from GOP politicians over their position in 2016. They will claim these Republicans have reversed their position on filling Supreme Court vacancies in an election year. Pundits on the right will also unearth clips of the current Democratic nominee and his so called ‘Biden rule’ or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeting in February 2016, ‘Attn GOP: ... (Read more)
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