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What would you think if the senate voted against confirming Obama's Supreme court pick?

It’s important to point out that it’s one thing if the Senate holds hearing and calls a vote on the confirmation of Judge Garland, but it is a completely different thing if the Senate refuses to hold hearings or call a vote.

If the Senate holds hearings and calls a vote and they choose not to confirm Merrick Garland, that is absolutely their prerogative. They will have fulfilled their Constitutional duty, and while I would disagree with their decision (and, in fact, think it would be downright stupid), I would be happy that they did their duty. And that’s all that President Obama is asking. He’s fulfilled his Constitutional duty by nominating someone to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and now the Senate is obligated to either confirm or reject that nomination.

Refusing to hold hearings and call a vote is obstructionist politics at its ugliest. When Senator McConnell says that the people should have a voice in the process and we should wait until after the next election to decide on a nominee is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard from a leader in the American government. First of all, it’s wrong no matter how you look at it. The American people had a voice in the process when they elected Barack Obama to serve as President until January 20, 2017. The President shouldn’t stop fulfilling his Constitutional responsibilities just because there is an election to replace him in eight months. If we’re using that logic, then 1/3rd of the Senate should refrain from casting votes from this point forward since their seats are up-for-grabs in November, too!

So, from a governance point-of-view, McConnell’s argument is ridiculous. And it’s an even worse argument from a political point-of-view. The Republican Presidential nominee is probably going to be Donald Trump, and if that is the case, the Democratic nominee – almost certainly Hillary Clinton – will coast to a victory in November. If the Senate waits until the next President is inaugurated in order to confirm a Supreme Court nominee, they will most likely not have a chance to confirm Judge Garland. Instead, the new President – who will probably have a significant mandate if Trump was their opponent – can pull Judge Garland’s nomination and instead nominate a much less moderate choice than Merrick Garland. Judge Garland is universally respected and – even more amazingly – genuinely well-liked by basically everyone, on both sides of the political spectrum, in the government. 

Merrick Garland is undoubtedly the best choice that the Republicans can hope for from a Democratic President. And, quite frankly, the fact that a public servant who has, by all accounts, done everything the right way throughout his life and career, worked his ass off to get where he is today, has a tremendous resume with exactly the right type of experience anyone would want out of a Supreme Court Justice, is about as apolitical as person who has spent more than five minutes in the District of Columbia, and somehow is also super nice and good – even that public servant can’t get a fair shake in this political climate. Actual leaders of one of our branches of government are actively ignoring their Constitutional responsibilities by working to prevent that type of person from even having a hearing. If you ever wonder why the best of the best don’t go into politics anymore or why so many political leaders can’t seem to do the right thing, look no further than how Merrick Garland is being treated despite doing EVERYTHING right throughout his career and personal life. What incentive is there for doing actual, genuine good and devoting your life to public service when politicians who aren’t half as accomplished, qualified, or honorable can stop you by simply not doing the job that they were elected to and, by the way, are Constitutionally required to do.  

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No... that's the life of a parent with a toddler.

The life of a pet owner: “What are you eating? OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU EATING???”

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Cokie Roberts, while insanely insightful, is one of the most passive reporters out there. When she calls your ass out? Ooh, boy.

Watch: Somehow Trump brings it back to the “big beautiful door.”

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Omg, yes.

@Bernie supporters what y'all gonna do when Bernie runs out of other people’s money??

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TL;DR Reused to mentor a younger person to help them mature, suggested her job was irrelevant, then delighted in the fact that finding gainful employment is fucking impossible.

Ignore me? I'll make you redundant.

I work in a very small office with only a handful of employees. There is a high volume of turnover due to the stressful environment and type of work we handle.

Enter my two younger, very green, fresh out of college coworkers. They happen to be best friends since birth. Colleague A is my work equal. We share similar tasks and colleague B’s job description is to literally be our assistant. B is still in school, immature, and some poor fool has agreed to marry her. B decided many months ago that she didn’t care for me. So what? Not everyone likes everybody else. She made it abundantly clear that she did not want to assist me in my day to day tasks. She would spend hours at the desk of colleague A chit chatting and making catty comments just out of my range of hearing. So I handled my workload myself. Without assistance.

Two weeks ago, colleague A quit. She left for another job and I absorbed her workload for the time being. I’m good at what I do and can complete my job without any help whatsoever. Colleague B has been scrambling to find work to keep her employed, but since she refused to help me from day one, I refuse to throw any assignments her way.

Today she approached me for the first time since she started asking “kittens, do you have anything for me to do?” I took enormous pleasure in saying “No, B, I have absolutely nothing I need your help with.”

With no work available for her, I have suggested to those higher up, who value my opinion, that perhaps our company no longer requires the employment of B.

Enjoy the job hunt sweetie.

Petty Revenge: Internet`s best petty revenge stories are here. | source

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Jesus anon, you can't even tamp down the misogyny for one damn day?

you pick some weird things to publicly call people out on. Are you against men having a view on women's day specifically or are men supposed to keep opinions strictly related to only things with dick and balls in the title?

Hahahah I’m not even gonna start on this one

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hey look, campus carry is working exactly as intended, it’s a feature not a bug, etc etc etc

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Yet, when you point that out to people and they lose their dammed minds.

I've never witnessed self-delusion on this scale before.

You might not really be a conservative if ...

Your party’s presidential nominee is:

Twice divorced. (Reagan is still the only divorced US president.) Openly imagines dating his daughter. Favors abortion rights. Favors national healthcare. Wants the government to spend billions building and staffing a wall, and arresting and deporting people. Profoundly disrespectful of women. Openly encouraging violent lawbreaking during his speeches. Openly admitting to hiring illegal workers at various projects.

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I have more than enough of my income taken away by the current taxes as is, fuck Bernie Sanders and his shit tax plan. Fuck your “free” college, fuck your “free” healthcare, fuck you if you support this old fart’s shameless burglary.

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----- Meaning that even though he’s absent, Trump is still going to be the winner of the debate. Trump has found a way to attack Cruz without doing the actual work of it or facing any comebacks. Tomorrow he’ll call them all low energy or jerks and move on. Meanwhile, Cruz will limp into, and out of, Iowa.

With Trump sitting this one out, Ted Cruz should have recognized that he’d be the target tonight. He’s not handling this as well as I expected him to.

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Sanders calls himself a Socialist, but I think what that means is New Deal Democrat basically. A New Deal Democrat in today’s political spectrum is way off to the left. President Eisenhower, who said that anyone who doesn’t accept New Deal measures is out of the political system, would be regarded as a dangerous leftist today. Everything has moved so far to the right. I don’t agree with Sanders on everything, not surprisingly, but I think he’s a respectable New Deal Democrat whose proposals would help the country considerably.

Noam Chomsky (via azspot)

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Despite the hilarity of this joke, there's probably an alarming amount of truth to this.

Why did America join the Second World War?

because they felt left out

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Oh, geez... took me a sec, but when I finally saw it...

HAPPY FRIDAY

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Holy shit

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http://www.themarysue.com/ingruber-for-han-solo/

Okay, fair enough, but have you seen this kid?

better options for the role of young han solo than literally any of the actors on the shortlist:

two short people in a coat

a mop with a wig

harrison ford with age-defying makeup

harrison ford with a picture of his younger self taped to his face

an empty space

1 million bees

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The USA is my problematic fav

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Wouldn't that be a HIPPA violation though?

North Carolina's Abortion Law Just Got Crazier

The battle over abortion rights continues in North Carolina, where state law now requires doctors to send the ultrasounds of women seeking abortions to state officials. Depending on whom you talk to, this is either a gross intimidation tactic by the state or a necessary practice to verify that clinics are complying with a previously enacted state law that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Per The New York Times, doctors who perform abortions at or after the 16-week mark must send North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services “the method used to determine the ‘probable gestational age’ of the fetus, the measurements used to support the assertion and, most controversially, an ultrasound showing the measurements.” The law states that this information is being collected for “statistical purposes only,” and that patients’ and doctors’ names will remain confidential.

http://gawker.com/north-carolinas-abortion-law-just-got-crazier-1752214904?utm_source=nar.al&utm_medium=urlshortener&utm_campaign=FB