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LandOfHopeAndDreams

(872 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 09:34 PM Sep 2018

They Will Vote Yes, As If Their Lives Depend On It

Because it probably does. I have little doubt that those so-called undecideds have been threatened. Or perhaps blackmailed in some way.

Make no mistake, that is why this is in the bag. That is why the whole hearing today was predetermined. They know there won't be a single defector. THEY KNOW! Because the alternative for these people is probably something they're not willing to risk.

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They Will Vote Yes, As If Their Lives Depend On It (Original Post) LandOfHopeAndDreams Sep 2018 OP
Sadly, I agree. BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #1
It's a done deal IMO Sidthelib Sep 2018 #2
He would have voted that way anyway. We at least get more outraged Dems. Only silver lining. Funtatlaguy Sep 2018 #3
Too many of them are compromised by putin. SC will have no value soon. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #4
Their political life as a party does depend on it because after this anti-woman... brush Sep 2018 #5
 

Sidthelib

(14 posts)
2. It's a done deal IMO
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 09:38 PM
Sep 2018

What I’m worried about now is that Kav is going to go absolutely scorched earth after he’s comfirmed. Abortion gone, federal voter ID laws, etc.

brush

(53,764 posts)
5. Their political life as a party does depend on it because after this anti-woman...
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 09:40 PM
Sep 2018

debacle they don't have long for control of Congress. Having the Supreme Court is all they'll have. And forget about trump after 2020.

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