Howard Dean: We will treat the nominee with all the courtesy McConnell gave Merrick Garland.

[riversedge]

Dean is responding to Mitch.
We have to play hardball at this moment IMHO!!



Howard Dean
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8m8 minutes ago

Howard Dean Retweeted HuffPost Politics

We will treat the nominee with all the courtesy McConnell gave Merrick Garland.

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Replying to @GovHowardDean

Hypocrisy blushes when it looks Mitch In the eye. History will not be kind to him.

[Hekate]

1. Works for me

[riversedge]

3. and certainly for me.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. THANK YOU HOWARD!!! EaAGHAGAHAGGhgah!!!

Love you man!!

[BigmanPigman]

4. Man, I love Dean and Wesley Clark too.

I respect both of their opinions on govt issues. Both seem very wise to me.

[Owl]

5. Unfortunately we are in the minority.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Go fuck yourself, you lipless sack of shit.

I'm with Dr. Dean on this one.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. THIS is the one I love:

"Hypocrisy blushes when it looks Mitch In the eye. History will not be kind to him."

Oh, for that to be so true!

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Kavanaugh has a lot of opinions on the public record

There's something for everyone to hate in his long record on the federal bench and in his previous career working for Starr.

Everyone's focused on Collins and Murkowski, but Heller's the one up for re-election in a blue state and could be a problematic vote for McConnell.

There's no reason for any "red state" Dem to vote to confirm him.

[KatyaR]

9. THIS.

Thank you, Howard.

[AlexSFCA]

10. biblical

[calimary]

11. We don't take orders from you, Mitch.

[Honeycombe8]

12. I bet they treat him much better. McConnell refused to even meet Garland...

or allow any of the Repubs to meet him. No point in it , since he wouldn't allow a vote.

[muntrv]

13. Pulling a McConnell.

[YOHABLO]

14. "leave my husband alone"

[Roland99]

15. McConnell's voicemail cannot receive messages at this time

Can’t wait til tomorrow. Gonna tell his office my opinion of that Russian stooge

[elmac]

17. news networks, even msnbc, are sugar coating this guy

not talking about the fact that no pick should even be considered do to an ongoing investigation. All networks are pro tRump.

[bdamomma]

18. a thug who has colluded with Russia

picking a Supreme Court judge??? there is something definitely wrong with this picture.

We will be screwed for a very long time if this happens. tRump wants to stack courts in his favour, to be above the law, no man (which he isn't) is above the law.

[McCamy Taylor]

19. Just set up a perjury trap so they have grounds to impeach him when they take out Trump.

Or pretend not to notice a skeleton in his closet so they can "discover" it later and use that as grounds to impeach him. Worked with Agnew.

[ALBliberal]

20. Why isn't HOWARD DEAN ever in the mix for presidential candidates?? He rocks. NT

[radius777]

23. Agree, Dean is plain-spoken and a fighter.

He would be an excellent VP choice as well, would fulfill the attack dog role perfectly.

Dean 'gets' how the base thinks, not just the economic side but the social justice side as well.

[ALBliberal]

24. And he gets how to win elections....heading up

DNC .... 50 state strategy. I really like him...

[blue-wave]

21. Thank You for being the real deal Governor Dean

I did a little grassroots work for you when you were DNC Chairman. That's when Democrats started winning in congress again. You call 'em as you see 'em, you always have and I admire you for it. We need more leaders like you who will "roll up their sleeves" and not back down from the fight. Let's fight this with our hearts and souls.

[DallasNE]

22. Irony: Kavanaugh's Boss Is Merrick Garland n/t

[FBaggins]

28. And he apparently helped out

As I understand it, the tradition is that once a judge accepts a nomination to the Supreme Court, he stops participating in DC Circuit rulings. One of the clues that court watchers used to identify Kavanaugh as the favorite was that the DC circuit released a ruling yesterday when they normally never release rulings on a Monday. Apparently, they wanted to get that one out before he had to step aside.

I think Garland had to have been a part of that. A classy move in an otherwise classless process.

[Scurrilous]

25. K&R

[Sophia4]

26. Trump is a negotiator. In my opinion, he figures he would be way ahead if

Kavanaugh is confirmed because of Kavanaugh's views on the president's nobless oblige should he be indicted.

But he also figures that he puts Kavanaugh before Congress first, and if Kavanaugh is rejected, a subsequent second or third right-wing scoundrel he proposes will be viewed as a "compromise" candidate and easily confirmed.

He thinks he is smart.

If Merrit Garland could not be confirmed, neither should Trump's picks.

A compromise should really be a compromise and not just some bargaining ploy by Trump to get an extremist on the Supreme Court.

Let's remember. Trump did not receive the most popular votes. He won only because the outcome in the electoral college did not by any means reflect the outcome of the popular vote.

Hillary won the popular vote. And now Trump is acting as if he had been chosen as president by the people. He was not. He was chosen by the electoral college, a twenty-first century leftover from the 18th century. A historical curse on our country.

[duforsure]

27. When the Dems retake the House

They need to investigate if Kennedy was blackmailed ( using his son) out of the Supreme Court. I also suspect from trump and putins patterns they have their goons trying to gather dirt on others on the court they can also force out of their position, and will use to replace them with also. I also think they're doing this to members of Congress to use against them for control. They corrupt others to then use it against them with it.