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“I’ve long said that eliminating the legislative filibuster would be a mistake. It’s what’s prevented our country for decades from sliding toward liberalism. It’s inconvenient sometimes, but requiring compromise is in the interest of both parties in the long term.”
Hatch in 2017: “without the filibuster this country would've been gone a long time ago.”
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Hatch in 2016: “I’m one of the biggest advocates for the filibuster. It’s the only way to protect the minority, and we’ve been in the minority a lot more than we’ve been in the majority. It’s just a great, great protection for the minority.”
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1978– Hatch leads successful filibuster of liberal labor reforms that would have “taken the country straight to socialism.”

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“You may not know this, but I was actually one of the original Federalists. Truth be told, I was a bit skeptical of the organization at first. A bunch of stuffy white guys getting together to talk about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Who has time for that?” #FedSoc2018
“..And the 1790s were a busy time for me. I had candles to make, wigs to powder, wooden hoops to roll with a stick.” OGH at #FedSoc2018
“But when Alexander Hamilton pulled me aside and said, in that way that only he could, the Constitution is great, yo, don’t procrastinate, a strong central government is our nation’s fate—well, he had me.

I really miss those 18th-century rap battles.”

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Senate Democrats have sent a letter complaining that they were "not consulted" about a hearing that not only had the ranking member agreed to.. but they had specifically agreed to "not to object to the timing of hearings scheduled."

You can bet Chairman @ChuckGrassley keeps RECEIPTS.

Consulting with Judiciary Democrats about hearings over recess—>

judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
On Democrats request for a another delay for hearings:

“It's unfair to the nominees, who have already flown to Washington, D.C. and made travel arrangements for their families, to further delay this hearing. And it's unfair to the American people.”

judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
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Last month Democrats tried to prevent hearings from starting, threw out baseless innuendo, Spartacus, and even edited videos to misrepresent Kavanaugh’s answers.

And that was BEFORE they held allegations 6 weeks then leaked them to destroy a man’s life

This less than 2 years after they mounted the first successful partisan filibuster in history stop the confirmation of Justice Gorsuch.

As @NoahCRothman notes, Democrats tried to paint him as a racist, sexist, and a “threat to voting rights.”

commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas…
“Borking” included everything from innuendo to leaking the nominee’s video rental history.

Was “In Robert Bork’s America,” gratuitously prophesying a return to segregation a part of “bipartisan cooperation?”

That ship sailed decades ago and Democrats were at the helm.
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So, the People’s Palace on Glasgow Green is again being bandied about like a heritage bladder on the proverbial stick used to beat the SNP with.

The politics aside, lets take a look at the history and condition of the People’s Palace Winter Garden.

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The building has an interesting history (of course I’d say that :P ) which the old Glasgow Green Heritage Trail does a good job of covering, though I’ll probably visit it in another thread later as part of a larger history.

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The Suffocation of Democracy

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Inspired by @sallykuchar , I'm gonna keep a thread of books that I read in 2018, w very brief comments on each one
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