The Supremes
Public Policy Polling is out with some news about how much Americans trust the Republican frontrunners to pick a new Supreme Court Justice.
Only 33% of voters trust Ted Cruz to nominate the new Supreme Court justice (57% don’t), only 31% trust Donald Trump to (62% don’t), and just 26% trust Marco Rubio to (61% don’t).
The poll also found that the public feels Taylor Swift is just as qualified as Donald Trump to make a court appointment. I suspect that Lady GaGa would have hit the more qualified threshold.
Independent voters in particular have little faith in the GOP hopefuls to nominate a Supreme Court justice- 61% don’t trust Trump to, and 58% don’t trust either Cruz or Rubio to. One particularly brutal finding for Rubio on this poll is that even among Republicans there are more (45%) who don’t trust him to make that appointment than do (41%) trust him.
Yeah, brutal is right. Even more brutal? Any one of those guys trying to be loved.
Thanks to Debby for the heads up.
I’m available.
1If th public finds the RKlan candidates untrustworthy, then why are they supporting them? Political polling may itself be found untrustworthy.
2Think about it, Mitch. Either the nice slightly left centrist President Obama selects the next justice, or you can take your chances with Sec/Sen Clinton or Sen Sanders. Sleep on it, old boy.
3Excellent point, maryelle! They don’t trust them to do their job but vote for them because they think they’ll get the job done? What?
That there is some SERIOUS mental disconnect.
4This is off the subject, but timely. Just heard that the Rethugs are, of course, blaming President Obama for the violence and hatred shown by THEIR presidential candidates. He is totally responsible for dividing the country. They are true masters of the bold-face lie.
5Yes, maryelle. Let’s hear it for the “personal responsibility” party! A thousand sighs…
6Over half the people polled said congress needs to do its job and confirm the next Scotus nominee before the election.
7Nationalistically speaking there’s nothing like a loyal opposition. And snacilbupeR are nothing like … ! Oh never mind you can make up your own one-liner about these disloyal ‘Merikans.
8The former Attorney General for Virginia just bowed out of the possible slot open at this time on a top Virginia court. Not because he’s a nice guy. He is totally not. He’s just waiting for a Senate R to say, “Hey, why don’t we tap . . .” and just wants to act surprise when he gets the nod.
9Ken Cuccinich or summat like that?? He is as big a creep as McDonnell! Ken Paxton with more chutzpah and a better cover up team. I’ll be w that other Jean, under the bed weeping…
10Lady GaGa has more brains in one eyelash than Trump has in all parts of his anatomy combined. She has more brains than any of those claiming to support any of those running in the GOP a/k/a Handbasket to Hell party.
11maryelle, Obama was just on MSNBC doing an interview with Canada’s PM, the gorgeous (just like his old man) Justin Trudeau. He was asked about how he is to blame for the snacilbupeR circus. His clear bafflement about such a bizarre accusation was shared by spectators and press alike. It was funny.
12None of the before mentioned is capable of any emotion except narcissism. Love is giving and open. The GOP promotes hate and fear. Those creatures want to rule, not govern. They want to use the military as their personal palace guard. They want a feudal system. The last thing they want is love.
13PKM nailed it, and the people they are going to hear it from first will be the business community — NOT the financialists but the authentic capitalists who make and sell things, small business and large. They don’t just think Obama’s choice will be ‘safer’ — and they are as scared of Trump as are the rest of us — but they’d also rather have cases settled, even against them, than have the suspense of a 4-4 tie which sets no precedent and, in effect, means the case has to be (expensively) relitigated.
14Prup (aka Jim Benton), you bring up an excellent point. In fact, if you have the time or inclination, would love it if you would expand on the 3 or more great points within that thought beyond SCOTUS.
1. The number of vacancies in all courts and the other functions of government that have ground a number of necessary governmental functions to a halt. Senator Warren touched upon this in her latest “do your job” speech.
2. Loathsome Ted and the govt doesn’t work element who are the main reason govt isn’t working at peak efficiency. Amirite, Mitch?
3. Prup, you say “authentic capitalists,” in the similar vein I refer to myself as a ‘true fiscal conservative.’ Or, in other words, maybe we need to address the ‘Con false narrative of being “tax and spend liberals.” Common sense; why it is important to invest a few $ in early childhood programs vs the prison industry scheme. All the way to why diplomacy (albeit slow) is far superior to “shock and awe,” the Mother Lode of ISIL recruitment.
15PKM – I have gladly accepted tje charge of being a “tax and spend” liberal. And when I make this avowal to a conservative I add that it’s more fiscally conservative to spend money that is in hand than it is to just add it to the “credit card” , i.e. the National debt. Oddly enough, I rarely get a comeback from that – unless you can to include, “well, uh, yah but…, and other such highly thought out responses.
16I’ll try to cover other points tomorrow, been busy with a few things even before Chicago took over my attention. But when I talk about ‘authentic capitalists’ I am usually, as I was there, contrasting them to the financialists, who create neither goods, services, or jobs, merely new forms of slice-and-dice financial instruments that invariably cause bubbles that burst, usually after the financialist creators are out of the picture and on to the next scheme. Meanwhile, the schemes always result in us getting hurt, and usually neither the poorest or the upper middle class upwards, but the working through the ‘middle middle.’
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They are the holders of much of that 1% wealth we hear about, and rarely do they even use it towards the benefit of anyone but, in effect, personal servants. Tax their type of dealings heavily, pass laws preventing certain types of bundling being used in financial instruments, and pry some of the money out of their hands — and the Cayman Islands.
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(On that last, one Republican idea that actually interested me, though he never talked more about it or gave details, was Christie’s “Overdue Library Book” tax forgiveness plan, where companies and individuals would be given a window of maybe as much as a year to bring their money home and have it taxed at a lower rate, but after that, the boom would be lowered in some way on those people whose money was still abroad,