We're going to go nuclear this week: thanks Harry

President Trump will be making the announcement Tuesday as to who he will nominate for the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court. 

There will be a battle and Chuck Schumer's nostrils will flare, pulling out all of the oxygen in the room, even though the Senate Minority Leader from New York  says it's just business, nothing personal, and certainly not revenge. But you know he will be fighting the appointment every step of the way as Republicans move to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

But thanks to Hairy Weed Harry Reid, there is the nuclear option whereby the nuclear option is now available to the Republicans as it was to the Democrats.

The nuclear option will happen if the GOP quashes the filibuster, a process the Democrats kept scratching at in 2013 when they nuked the filibuster for most judicial and executive-branch nominees.

The party of the KKK had the majority back then and never thought they would lose it, as former Senate leader Reid decided to keep the minority Republicans from keeping the country from bowing to the will of Obama. Instead of the 60 votes normally needed to nominate appointees, all the Democrats needed was 51 votes. 

This is how the party of Bull Connor and Robert Byrd was able to pack the lower courts with Obama liberals.

Even Schumer admits that Republicans have an edge since they control the Congress and the White House. He knows that no matter how many tears he sheds, all of Trump's cabinet choices are likely to be confirmed--and his choices appear to be even more conservative than were Ronald Reagan's.

The only exception Reid left when he changed the rules, was with the Supreme Court. So to get things done, Mitch McConnell might have no alternative but to use his power as House Majority Leader, to squash the filibuster altogether.

If McConnell cannot persuade eight Democrats to go along with Trump's SCOTUS nominee while ensuring all 52 Republicans vote for Trump's pick, then he will have to go nuclear.

McConnell's decision to hold off Obama's choice of Judge Merrick Garland after Justice Scalia died last February was a gamble that paid off, big league.

Thank you Harry.


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POTUS' choice for SCOTUS short list ready

President Trump is ready to make his Supreme Court justice choice this week after the country has gone 11 months with an empty seat after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Democrats weren't happy with the wait, but since it was nearing the end of a socialist president's term, the GOP, under Mitch McConnell, thought it best to take the gamble and wait until after the election.

A brilliant move.

It was worth the wait as it is likely Trump will pick a conservative Constitutional originalist as Justice Scalia was, to fill the seat.

President Trump has assured us the decision is coming soon. "I'll be making my decision this week, we'll be announcing next week," he said after meeting with bipartisan Senate leaders Tuesday. "We'll pick a truly great Supreme Court justice."

It will be very, very great. So great we're going to say 'Hey Donald, your pick was too great. We're getting tired of all this greatness.'

According to sources who ask to remain anonymous in order to find out more secret stuff, the list is down to  three or four names, all of whom are federal appeals court judges.

You may recall that President Trump said at a presser last week before taking the oath of office that a decision on the pick for Supreme Court would come within two weeks after taking office.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer backed up that timeline on Monday, and said the nomination remains a "priority."

Trump already met with Judge William Pryor from the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in Birmingham, Ala. He is a close friend of the Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).

Pryor was initially given a recess appointment to the appeals court but Senate Democrats tried to block his subsequent nominations, citing his strong criticism of the Roe v. Wade decision establishing a woman's right to kill her unborn baby. He called it the "worst abomination in the history of constitutional law."

As Ronald Reagan pointed out: "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."

Other possible judges on Trump's short list may be Judge Neil Gorsuch, on the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with chambers in Denver. 

He was born in 1967 and went to Harvard Law School, clerked for Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. He then went into private practice before joining the Bush Justice Department. His mother is Anne Burford, the first female EPA administrator. He also wrote: "The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia."

Judge Thomas Hardiman, 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with chamber in Pittsburgh.

He was born in 1965 and his 2010 ruling that a jail policy of strip-searching all those arrested does not violate the Fourth Amendment was affirmed by the Supreme Court. He also sits on the same court as President Trump's sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, but she is not being considered for any high court vacancy.

There are more possible considerations but we shall see what he does in the days to come.

So far, Trump has met with auto industry leaders and others, and will be meeting with the British and Canadian Prime Ministers, Theresa May and Justin Trudeau, respectively.

Just for the fun of it, I've put up a Steve Crowder video of the Women's March in Washington on Friday. It's only a bit over 8 minutes long but fun to watch. 

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Why Hillary Failed the D.C. Bar exam

Fact: Hillary Clinton failed the Washington D.C. bar exam. 

Perhaps her failure was due to the question about the Second Amendment, a question that George Stephanopoulos asked her on ABC's This Week: "Do you believe that an individual's right to bear arms is a Constitutional right, that it's not linked to service in the militia?"

The question came in light of Donald Trump claiming that Hillary would repeal the Second Amendment if she became president.

Well, the answer she gave to Stephanopoulos may shed light on her Second Amendment thoughts, but I think it's confusing, to say the least.

"I think that for most of our history, there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice Scalia, and there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right, as we do with every amendment, to impose reasonable regulations. So I believe we can have common-sense gun safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment."

Gun safety? That's nonsense. 

Before Scalia was even born, the Supreme Court consistently upheld the American citizen's right to possess firearms. If Clinton was telling the truth (LOL), the only people who would be permitted to own a firearm would be the military because the right of a citizen owning a gun would have long ago disappeared.

Finally, there are practically no gun rights advocates who believe that there should be absolutely no regulations of any kind governing the possession and sale of firearms. All Clinton did was use a straw man argument and then changed the subject to gun safety, which has nothing to do with registration, nor the types of weapons in question.

This is how the Queen of Benghazi operates. She either pretends to be a poor, clueless girly girl, or speaks in circles to confuse us. I suspect she got the exam question on the Second Amendment wrong, but it wouldn't surprise me if she also blew it on the First Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights.

Liberals have never seen a regulation they didn't like.


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Clairvoyant Senator Pat Leahy

"I knew you'd say that"

He isn't merely a US senator and top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, he is also a clairvoyant who speaks to the dead. 

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) told far left wing MSNBC (Morons Spouting Nothing But Communism) that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would have wanted his replacement installed on the bench immediately, if not sooner. And although Leahy didn't actually say it, he thinks Scalia would want that replacement to be a die hard liberal who thinks exactly like Leahy.

Many folks don't know this, but before Pat Leahy became a liberal senator, he used to be an Irish gypsy. Traveling from Vermont town to Vermont town in his beer can-shaped wagon, he would read palms, do Tarot card interpretations, and juggle empty bottles of maple syrup.

When he became a senator, he never lost his magic ability to charm folks with his baffling balderdash and quick wit.

Even as Antonin Scalia awaits his interment, Leahy speaks for him.

Had the political shoe been on the other foot, and had it been, say, a far left wing justice who left the Supreme Court empty of his or her presence, I strongly believe Leahy, just like Chuck Schumer, would have implored us to wait for the new president to be in office before nominating a new justice.

After all, Obama has less than a year left of his term, while G.W. Bush had 18 months left, when Schumer said he should wait until the country elects the next president so that the nation's will is honored.

But let us not kid ourselves--there is hypocrisy on both sides.

Perhaps the best solution to having a bias-leaning Supreme Court is term limits. The FBI has a ten year term limit for the Director's position and it seems to be working.

Rest in peace, Justice Scalia. 

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