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#1 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-07-01 11:22 PM
Dems should run on expanding the court to reexamine EVERY ruling this court has forced down our throats during their reign of error!
Brilliant! Sounds like the team that "prepared" (and "overcooked") Biden for the "debates" : tell the people what they don't already know ("Trump is a FELON found guilty on 34 counts, can you believe THAT!?" ... only to find out that Biden's son Hunter is not only a FELON, but "A FELON AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL," apparently a BIGLY FELON level that "nobody's ever seen before!" **) and what the potential voters are really interested in (how "handicapped" both geriatric old-timers are and which one was, in their own words, the BIGGEST LIAR and BIGGEST LOSER) and care about - because nothing says "LOSER" more than explaining why you want to expand SCOTUS now, after insisting many times over the years that you have no intention of expanding the highest court because it would only "politicize" it... and of course, give the same opportunity to the other side, when they get "their turn" ... which may seem to be sooner than we think.
Exhibit A (of exhibits A-Z): thehill.com - Biden: Expanding Supreme Court would 'politicize it maybe forever'
If Dems want to be ridiculed even more than they are now, and not just by Trumpers, this would be one way to go.
And be careful when you try to expand the power you want to give [any branch of] the "government," just because you might think for a moment you will be constraining it... and you probably won't like it "in the long run," because "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ... still more when you [add] the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."
Want to limit substantial existing corrupting power? Start by taking some real power back, e.g., a relatively simple and easy to pass constitutional amendment to take the UNCONDITIONAL power of ONE single man to decide who gets a pardon - especially in light of Trump's recent pronouncements of granting a pardon to himself (and bunch of other criminals) that should be very popular and bring people to vote... and would send a loud and clear message to all branches of federal government... and hopefully, done at the states / Governor level, too.
As far as campaign is concerned, 20 percent of your issues should provide about 80 percent of your votes - SCOTUS Dobbs decision is one of the top 5 issues almost all voters care about, other issues vary state by state - that's where Dems have clear advantage and should concentrate their resources, not distracting voters with minor issues (that someone in the campaign is interested in) that may split or antagonize some voters.
** BTW, I have warned before the "debate" about futility and puerility of "reminding" viewers about Trump being a felon, but I guess that was in the "script" - apparently the same people / team who came up with "Bidenomics" and "fighting shrinkflation" haven't been fired yet. And the huge drop in viewership from 2020 debates should tell us that most people already know more than enough about these candidates, and are uninterested, except for expecting a spectacle... which is what they got. This in itself may be a "graceful enough" (if there is any) reason to cancel the second debate.
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