Violating every pretense that the attorney general of the United States is an independent non-partisan law-enforcement officer, Jeff Sessions gave a speech before a group of young conservatives where he joined a chant about Hillary Clinton concerning her emails: “lock her up.”
Lock Up His Mouth
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
9 Comments. Leave new
We lost the supreme court nearly twenty years ago. The GOP gave up all pretense early in the Clinton admin.
The good news is that the more time they spend fighting each other, the less time they have to screw over We duh People.
The Supreme Court served as an exceptional example of how the Democratic Party possesses not even a dollop of common sense. Dubya finishes eight years. Barack Obama gets elected. What do the Dems do? Sit on their asses as the clock runs out. Obama’s second term starts. What do they do? Sit on their asses some more. Ginsberg and Breyer don’t retire.
Now, Breyer and Ginsberg are 79 and 85, respectively. If Trump wins re-election, Ginsberg would have to make it to her mid-90s, Breyer to his late 80s. And they BOTH have to live. Once Kavanaugh (a youthful 53) gets on the court, it’s be a 5-4 conservative split. If either Breyer or Ginsberg leaves, that’s it. Game over. It’ll be a 6-3 or even a 7-2 court for at least 10 years.
But don’t worry. The conserative side has Alito and Thomas (68 and 70). If Trump wins re-election in 2020, they’ll bother retire in 2022 so that two conservatives in their late 40s/early 50s can be appointed. That’ll ensure a conservative leaning for at least 25 more years.
If only Hillary had been able to rig the elections properly. She might be a corporate tool and a warhawk (she has the two essential qualifications: she never served and her children never did either, just like her husband, and Dubya and Reagan) but I suspect she would have at least appointed justices at least a little to the left of center.
If Sanders wins in 2020, I hope he appoints only vegan triathletes who are in their 20s and whose grandparents all died in their late 90s.
Damn you, Mr. Tired!
You went and made me depressed, mostly ‘cuz I think you’re right.
🙁 🙂 😀 🙂 🙁
We made great progress in civil rights over the last two-anna-half centuries. I’m afraid that 2016 might have been the high-water mark, and it’s all downhill from here.
(“Downstream“? – damn but I mix a mean metaphor)
So, when the going gets tough, the tough pout and give up? You must be one of these Millennials I keep hearing about.
Huh? You lost me there, Fleming. I’m neither a millennial nor giving up.
Agree with respect to Mr Sessions, Ted, but when it comes to the US and hostage taking, may I suggest that the best policy would be to end US support for just the sort of group pictured in your cartoon above, which has been a feature of US policy at least since 3 July 1979 ?…
Henri
Was Holder less partisan?
Do you have examples?
I see, so you don’t have an examples. I guess that answers your question, doesn’t it?