All or nothing on Gorsuch

[HassleCat]

And I'm thinking it will have to be nothing, voting to confirm him, caving in. Here's why.

We could oppose every nominee who is not Merrick Garland. I would be very much in favor of doing so if we were a stronger party. As we know, it's difficult to get more than a handful of Democrats to mount meaningful opposition to anything coming from a right wing administration. I cannot imagine congressional Democrats sustaining a fight like this over the next two years, assuming we could even get the fight started in the first place. There is already talk of confirming Gorsuch to avoid the nuclear option, which is probably coming anyway, so I guess we're running from the fight before the bully even appears. Not encouraging.

And Gorsuch is not the worst they can throw at us. I can almost guarantee rejecting him will result in somebody worse. We would be faced with fighting a string of nominees, each one worse than the previous candidate. I just don't see how we could sustain that.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Refusing to participate in votes does show the public what they elected

The half empty committee rooms today were a graphic that raises eyebrows

Or is it surrender?