WASHINGTON — Republican senators are rushing to condemn Donald Trump’s statement that a Mexican-American judge can’t be impartial because of his ethnicity. They’ve called his comments “wrong,” “offensive” and the “definition of ‘racism.’”
But they’ve just put themselves in a bind: those same senators are still arguing, somehow, that Trump is the best person to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, along with dozens of other federal court seats they’re holding open for the next president.Acknowledging that Trump's comments are pretty horrible, but then continuing to stand up for the guy - well now, that's not exactly what anybody has in mind when they think of the word "integrity", fellas.
Watching a long segment replay from Joe Scarborough about the Judge Curiel thing struck me as pretty wild. First, the GOP does not - THEY JUST FUCKING DON'T - get to play this like they never saw it coming and nobody ever tried to warn them.
They won't let me embed the video, so here's the link to the MSNBC page. (check for the date: June 6, 2016)
A little horn tooting might be in order here - libruls have been trying to tell us this was happening for years. A blogger named driftglass (eg) has been saying this is what's going on. The podcast he does with Blue Gal every week has been laying this out for a good 200 weeks or more.
Who's been right about this shit all along, and who's been fucking wrong?
Second, reports of the GOP's demise may be premature, but it gets harder and harder not to visualize it circling the drain.
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