{"id":4211,"date":"2018-09-24T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/republicans-underestimate-the-thuggery-of-democrats\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:42:59","slug":"republicans-underestimate-the-thuggery-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/republicans-underestimate-the-thuggery-of-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Underestimate the Thuggery of Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew C. McCarthy<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats are willing to use any tactics to block conservatives from the Supreme Court and seat their own ideologues. The question is not \u201cFair or unfair?\u201d It\u2019s \u201cWill it work?\u201d Republicans always seem flat-footed in response because they underestimate how far Democrats are willing to go to win, how willing they are to destroy people\u2019s reputations if that\u2019s what it takes. Republicans keep thinking it\u2019s 1987 and the Bork debacle was the worst of it; in reality, we\u2019re 30 years on, and the Bork debacle was just the beginning of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned this in terrorism cases. Radical left-wing attorneys, who style themselves \u201cpolitical lawyers,\u201d try to turn the proceedings into a zoo, chaos being the weapon of those for whom the rules assure defeat. Either the judge takes control of the courtroom with a firm hand, enforces the rules, and penalizes the antics, or there are interminable delays, baseless smears, and general bedlam.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's right. Take control and muzzle or remove the transgressive punks.  I'll leave it to you to ponder whether these people are fellow citizens or domestic enemies out to destroy our system of government which enshrines such principles as the presumption of innocence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew C. McCarthy: Democrats are willing to use any tactics to block conservatives from the Supreme Court and seat their own ideologues. The question is not \u201cFair or unfair?\u201d It\u2019s \u201cWill it work?\u201d Republicans always seem flat-footed in response because they underestimate how far Democrats are willing to go to win, how willing they are … Continue reading “Republicans Underestimate the Thuggery of Democrats”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}