Please forward this to all the 'LeBron's' out there

 

Please forward this to all the 'LeBron's' out there

Joe Biden mistakenly says 200 million people have died from COVID-19 in US

If that's the case you probably wouldn't be reading this.

This is the 'cream of the crop'...the best they could come up with... an old man with Dementia?

 Let's do the math. How many gaffes does it take 25, 50, 75, to = Dementia?

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Joe Biden said during a campaign speech in Philadelphia that about 200 million people have died of the coronavirus in the US — or nearly two-thirds of the population – though the number is just shy of 200,000.

“If Donald Trump has his way, the complications from COVID-19, which are well beyond what they should be — it’s estimated that 200 million people have died — probably by the time I finish this talk,” the Democratic presidential nominee said Sunday, according to Fox News.

The self-proclaimed “gaffe machine” made a similar comment when he added several extra zeroes to the nation’s coronavirus death toll during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania in June.

“Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID,” the former veep said at the time before correcting himself to say “120,000,” which was not captured by the pool cameraman.

On Sunday, Biden took longer to correct his error when he said more than three minutes later: “Like I said, as I speak we’re probably passing 200,000 deaths lost to this virus.”

President Trump’s reelection campaign has called Biden “very confused,” and that “he’s not playing with a full deck, folks.”

“This is after he previously claimed 150 million Americans died from guns,” the Trump War Room said recently, referring to Biden’s bungling of statistics about how many Americans had been killed by gun violence since 2007 during a February debate with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

As of early Monday, the US death toll from the coronavirus stands at 199,512. The total number of reported cases in the country is about 6.8 million, according to the latest figures.

Joe Biden mistakenly says 200 million people have died from COVID-19 in US

Nancy Pelosi won't rule out impeachment to block a Trump Supreme Court nominee

So how does this work...

"Elections have consequences...". Sound familiar? I remember hearing that somewhere...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't rule out impeachment proceedings to block a Trump Supreme Court nominee from replacing the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

On Sunday, Pelosi appeared on ABC's "This Week," to speak with George Stephanopoulos about Ginsburg and the Supreme Court nomination process.

When asked what tools Pelosi and House Democrats would employ to stop a Supreme Court nomination, she said "we have our options."

Though she doesn't have a vote in the Senate process for confirming Supreme Court nominations, Pelosi's comments represent an escalation of the judicial wars that will only intensify on Capitol Hill going forward.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday wouldn't rule out impeachment proceedings to prevent President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee from being confirmed to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

On ABC's "This Week," George Stephanopoulos described a possible scenario in which a Trump nominee could be pushed through a lame-duck session after the November 3 election even if Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the presidency and Democrats captured control of the US Senate. He then asked Pelosi if she would move to impeach Trump or Attorney General William Barr to halt the nomination process.

"Well, we have our options," she said. "We have arrows in our quiver that I'm not about to discuss right now, but the fact is we have a big challenge in our country. This president has threatened to not even accept the results of the election with statements that he and his henchmen have made."

Stephanopoulos pressed Pelosi, asking again if she still wasn't ruling anything out.

"We have a responsibility," she said. "We've taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. We have a responsibility to meet the needs of the American people."

As speaker of the House of Representatives, Pelosi doesn't have a vote on the Senate process for confirming Supreme Court nominations, but her comments represent an escalation of the judicial wars that will only intensify on Capitol Hill.

Ginsburg, who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court for 27 years, died on Friday at the age of 87 due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. On the same day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky released a statement saying that the Senate would hold a vote on a Trump's pick to replace Ginsburg. McConnell's swift announcement infuriated Democrats who are still incensed about him blocking then-President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, from receiving hearings or a confirmation vote in 2016.

Nancy Pelosi won't rule out impeachment to block a Trump Supreme Court nominee

Sen. Collins announces Republicans should wait to vote on Supreme Court nominee

Elections have consequences. 

Many people, including me, voted for Trump for this very reason to appoint conservative judges. If the Dems owned the senate wouldn't they do say the same thing? 

This is what a ‘Supreme’ a$$hole she is… and always has been. God forbid Biden wins. These are his likely picks and the reason he refuses to admit it. She has the chance to stop this and can't fathom the long term effect. If McCain had a twin sister in the senate it would be her.

BTW...Joe 2016:

"It is the 'constitutional duty' of a president to name a SCOTUS nominee even if it is an election year"

Joe Biden in 2016: "I would go forward with a confirmation process as chairman, *even a few months before a presidential election,* if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires.pic.twitter.com/eAdrDigc8S

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 19, 2020

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A Washington Free Beacon analysis found the most likely candidates are U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 

(appointed by Barack Obama)

California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger,

(appointed by Jerry Brown)

and U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, 

(appointed by Barack Obama)

with Stacey Abrams as a possible wildcard pick.

(appointed by Popeyes)

Sen. Collins announces Republicans should wait to vote on Supreme Court nominee

Ginsburg jumps off

McConnell vows Trump's nominee to replace Ginsburg will get Senate vote, setting up historic fight

Don’t wish pancreatic cancer on anyone. That said I guess I’m one of the few who will admit if I didn’t care for you when your alive I’m not going to pretend to admire you now that your dead.

How this is going to shake out I don't really know. But you can always count on Murkowski, Collins. and McRomney to f--k things up. This is a golden opportunity for Trump. With a new seat on the court vacant so close to the election he can make the case its even more imperative he gets re-elected. This is his legacy and he fulfilled his promises by appointing conservative judges. Who knows, he may get another one if when re-elected. One thing for sure Pelosi’s pulling out her new hairdo.

PS:

What a bunch of crap they were feeding us about her health. She must have been hospitalized 10 to 15 times in the last 14 months. Each time they tried to minimize  her condition by explaining it away with words like 'routine observation' when in fact they were propping her up like El Cid trying to ride her past November 3rd. 

In essence she knew and the Dems knew she couldn't fulfill the duties of a SC justice and should have been replaced a long time ago. Now the Dems are crying foul because they couldn’t carry her over the finish line although the Dems have a point when you consider the case with Garland. But if the shoe was on the other foot wouldn’t they be doing the same thing since they have been screwing Trump 7 ways from Sunday even prior to the election.

Remember when Ginsburg (the fair and impartial judge) was asked what if Republican Donald Trump won she said, “I don’t want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs.” She didn’t want to think about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House, and she predicted the next president — “whoever she will be will have a few appointments to make to the Supreme Court”. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen... except the ‘she’ is a ‘he’’. 

The bottom line. The Febreze ran out 44 days before the election.

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Washington (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed on Friday that whomever President Donald Trump nominates to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get a vote on the Senate floor, signaling a historic fight in Congress over one of the most polarizing issues in American politics.

"President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate," McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in a statement Friday evening that sets GOP lawmakers on a collision path with Democrats, though the exact timing of such a fight -- in particular how much of it would happen ahead of or after Election Day -- was not immediately clear.

Senate Majority Whip John Thune, the number two GOP senator, backed McConnell, saying in a statement of his own, "I believe Americans sent a Republican president and a Republican Senate to Washington to ensure we have an impartial judiciary that upholds the Constitution and the rule of law. We will fulfill our obligation to them. As Leader McConnell has said, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate."

GOP aides are skeptical that there is enough time to confirm a nominee before November 3, given that Supreme Court nominees typically take two to three months to process, according to a review of recent confirmation proceedings. 

But that process could be sped up if McConnell, who controls the majority of the chamber, has the votes to confirm a replacement, and there is enough time to confirm someone in a lame-duck session of Congress after the November elections.

That calculation is further complicated if Republicans lose control of the Senate and the White House after the election -- and whether enough GOP senators would break ranks and oppose any nominee by a President who had just lost his election and a GOP Senate that just lost its majority.

Senate Republicans, who hold the majority in the upper chamber, only need 51 votes to confirm a new justice once one is formally nominated. Currently, there are 53 GOP senators -- meaning they can only lose three Republicans. In the event of a 50-50 split, Vice President Mike Pence could cast a tie-breaking vote.

Already, Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine have said that there is not enough time to confirm someone before November.

Collins told The New York Times earlier this month that she'd oppose seating a nominee in a lame-duck session if Joe Biden wins the White House.

It's unclear if more Republicans would break ranks.

CNN has reached out to Collins, Murkowski and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah -- among others -- to seek their position on the matter.

In a message to GOP senators on Friday, McConnell urged his colleagues not to lock themselves into a position that they may regret later and counseled them to be cautious about what they are telling the media about their views on how to process the nomination, according to a person who saw the note. He urged them to "keep your powder dry."

McConnell did not indicate a timeframe for considering the nomination but made clear he believes there's enough time to take up the nominee this year.

While GOP Senate sources believe action on a nominee will likely wait until a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress, it's possible it could be moved up for this reason: The possibility of court fights over the election results and the need for nine justices on the court to resolve any disputes.

A GOP Senate source said that this topic will be under discussion with senators as they decide whether to fast-track a nominee before November.

In July, Republican leaders signaled they would confirm a nominee this year. 

"We will," said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the second-ranking Republican leader, when asked if the Senate would fill a vacancy, even during the lame-duck session after the presidential election. "That would be part of this year. We would move on it."

But Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham wasn't sure if he would agree to that.

"I'd like to fill a vacancy. But we'd have to see. I don't know how practical that would be," Graham told CNN in July. "Let's see what the market would bear."

McConnell's vow that a nominee would get a vote set up a clash with the top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New York, who said earlier Friday that a Supreme Court vacancy "should not be filled until we have a new president."

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president," the top Senate Democrat tweeted in a reference to a statement made by McConnell in 2016 after the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. 

Ginsburg died on Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, the court announced. She was 87.

Earlier this year, McConnell reiterated his position that the GOP-led Senate would confirm a nominee to any Supreme Court vacancy that occurred this election year, despite leaving a seat vacant in 2016 and preventing President Barack Obama's nominee from consideration.

Graham expressed his condolences over Ginsburg's passing Friday evening. 

"It was with great sadness that I learned of the passing of Justice Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer who possessed tremendous passion for her causes. She served with honor and distinction as a member of the Supreme Court," the Republican South Carolina senator tweeted.

He went on to say, "While I had many differences with her on legal philosophy, I appreciate her service to our nation. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends. May she Rest In Peace." 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday evening that flags over the US Capitol building are flying at half staff in honor of the late justice. 

In a statement, Pelosi said, "We must honor Justice Ginsburg's trailblazing career and safeguard her powerful legacy by ensuring that the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court upholds her commitment to equality, opportunity and justice for all. "

Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court's liberal wing, consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, including abortion rights, same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, health care and affirmative action.

One additional element that might impact the looming nomination fight is the Arizona special election. 

The Arizona Republic is reporting that if Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly wins a November 3 special election against GOP Sen. Martha McSally, he could be sworn-in as soon as November 30, meaning the balance of power in the Senate would shift from the current 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats to 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats.

That difference could impact the ability of McConnell to confirm a replacement for Ginsburg given that some GOP senators have expressed reluctance to filling a Supreme Court vacancy during a presidential election year.

The newspaper makes clear, however, that getting Kelly sworn in then is not a done deal and may be contested, saying, "Two Republican and Democratic election attorneys agree that state law and Senate practice would make Kelly eligible to take over the seat once held by Sen. John McCain as soon as Nov. 30, when the state election results are expected to be canvassed."

Ginsburg jumps off