{"id":19572,"date":"2022-07-01T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T00:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=19572"},"modified":"2022-07-01T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T00:25:59","slug":"partisan-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/01\/partisan-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisan Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a classic, perfect July day.\u00a0 Sunny, high 80\u2019s, 5-10 mph breeze, wonderful.\u00a0 We had the younger grandchildren over to swim in the pool along with their mothers.\u00a0 Camera Girl and I presided over the jubilant aquatic marauders and after the swimming and lunch I played a spirited game of billiards with the older of the two boys.\u00a0 And maybe saying it was billiards is stretching the definition.\u00a0 A purist would have noted a number of scratches that weren\u2019t penalized.\u00a0 But to me every game of pool is a chance to bond with the younger generation and discuss semi-elastic Newtonian physics in an enjoyable venue.<\/p>\n<p>But after the kids left for home, I managed to read some of the news.\u00a0 There was an article by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/is-biden-a-man-out-of-time\/ar-AAZ33Ly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leftist in a leftist magazine<\/a> that I thought captured the delusional aspect of the progressive viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Supreme Court recognizing that the Constitution doesn\u2019t bless abortion and leaving it to the voters of each state to decide if they\u2019ll sanction it, is madness.\u00a0 So, actual democracy is beyond the pale.\u00a0 Alito wanting to allowing the voters and their representatives to decide on abortion is equivalent to Robespierre unleashing Madame Guillotine on the unsuspecting populace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve selected some of my favorite quotes from this masterpiece:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSimilarly, when asked on a conference call with reporters this week what Biden could be doing differently to respond to the ruling, Sarah Lipton-Lubet, the executive director of the Take Back the Court Action Fund, a group advocating for expanding the Supreme Court, told me he should <strong>\u201cstop treating the Supreme Court like it\u2019s some untouchable panel of demigods. This Court is brazenly political, and we have to stop pretending otherwise.\u201d<\/strong> That sentiment among Democrats escalated further today, when the Court capped its term by hobbling the federal government\u2019s ability to regulate the carbon emissions that cause climate change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs concerned as many Democrats are about Biden\u2019s advanced age and his diminished approval ratings, the persistent chatter among them about whether he should run again in 2024 centers as much on the fear that he\u2019s a man out of time. Many activists express a similar frustration with the party\u2019s politburo of aging congressional leaders. <strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily only an age thing, but I do think the younger crop of leaders have cut their teeth during times when they never really believed our institutions were legitimate,\u201d Adam Jentleson, a former Democratic Senate leadership aide and a co-founder of Battle Born Collective, a liberal advocacy group, told me. \u201cThey don\u2019t have this nostalgia for a [prior] set of norms and principles, because they never experienced them.\u201d\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThey feel the system is fundamentally corrupted; they are experiencing a crisis of legitimacy in our institutions,\u201d he said\u2014and they want the party to \u201ccraft a message around that. The failure to do that explains where we are right now.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><em> Indeed, polling released this week by a coalition of liberal groups led by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee found strong agreement among Democrats, and even many swing voters, for the argument that the Supreme Court is \u201cbroken\u201d and \u201cfacing a legitimacy crisis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, you see, if the government is doing what they want, then the progressives have the highest respect for institutions.\u00a0 But if our system disagrees with their priorities then burn it down!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was also a bunch of screeching interlaced with their call to action.\u00a0 I really liked these so I\u2019ll share a few:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cCompounding those anxieties, Undem said, is \u201calmost despair\u201d among left-leaning voters that Democratic leaders seemingly have no plan for how to respond to this multipronged offensive<\/em><\/strong><em>. Jentleson likewise said that Biden has created an \u201cenormous disconnect\u201d and <strong>\u201cfeeling of powerlessness\u201d among Democrats by failing to make a broader case against structural problems such as the Senate\u2019s small-state bias or the skewing of the Supreme Court bench that the GOP may exploit for sustained minority rule.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cBiden\u2019s Democratic critics express more fear of demoralizing their own voters.<\/em><\/strong><em> For them, last week\u2019s Supreme Court decision put an exclamation point on the feeling that Republicans are driving the national agenda even though Democrats nominally hold unified control of the White House, the House, and the Senate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, there we have it.\u00a0 The progs want to nuke the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that special!\u00a0 They forgot what happened when they nuked the lower court filibuster.\u00a0 It blew up in their faces.\u00a0 Now what happens when the Republicans remember their words and decide to nuke the filibuster altogether and really go to town when we control the trifecta in 2024.\u00a0 Well, bring it on, bring it on, bring it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a classic, perfect July day.\u00a0 Sunny, high 80\u2019s, 5-10 mph breeze, wonderful.\u00a0 We had the younger grandchildren over to swim in the pool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[439,183],"class_list":["post-19572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-hypocrisy","tag-leftist-nitwits"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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