More Democrat Hypocrisy

We’ve already heard from Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) about how there should be no end-of-term nominations to fill Supreme Court vacancies, unless it’s a Democrat President making the nomination.

Then, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) claimed with her usual polemics that not proceeding with a nomination and confirmation process

would threaten both the Constitution and our democracy itself.

It is, after all, a Democrat President whose nomination needs the confirmation, else the Republic will fall.

The Democratic Party’s Progressive Presidential candidate and Socialist Presidential candidate both have demanded that the present Democrat President, in his last year, should nominate and have favorably considered a Supreme Court Justice.

Now we get Vice President Joe Biden (D), when he was the Democratic Party Senator from Delaware and the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, saying in all seriousness (during the last year of a Republican President’s term)

should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over.

now insisting that a Democrat President should make his nomination in the current political season and

the current Senate has a constitutional duty to [consider Obama’s choices].

Forthwith.

More Foolishness

The motorboat skipper who sits in our Secretary of State’s chair and his Russian counterpart, and some carefully selected “opposition and rebel groups,” have agreed to a cease-fire in Syria that is alleged to be effective Saturday next.

However.

The truce will not cover IS, the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, and any other militias designated as terrorist organizations by the UN Security Council. But where in Syria the fighting must stop and where counterterrorism operations can continue must still be addressed. And the five-page plan released by the US State Department leaves open how breaches of the cease-fire will be identified or punished.

In other words, there is no cease-fire. Only pretty words for the last months of a lame duck year in a lamed duck administration.