[TheRealThing]

Judge Gorsuch is imminently qualified to replace Justice Scalia. Before the SCOTUS became the decisive battleground in the Culture War, he would have been a near unanimous confirmee. Not any more. Nowadays, a vacancy remains for a year, and decent jurists (not perfect ones) become by turn Satan or Hitler in the now endless and cyclical sights of the Culture Warrior Crusaders.

Not sure who or what group is the object of your consternation here, I know "The Washington Post" used the term Hitlarian to describe Trump. But the fight isn't about decent jurists, it is about the attempt by the left to give lifetime appointments to activist jurists, and deny same to non-activist jurists. The past administration's intent to seed the courts with activist judges, was the main reason Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option. He stopped short of SCOTUS because despite their having publicly signed the Republican Party's death certificate, there must have remained a nagging shred of doubt.

Nancy Pelosi envisions herself to be the lead majorette of identity politics. That would be the same Pelosi shamed and then laughed to scorn by Yasser Arafat, the same Pelosi recently reconfirmed by the rank and file as House Minority Leader, and the same Pelosi who thinks ObamaCare is affordable.

Question from Press: Is Obamacare a winner or loser politically?

Pelosi: "Well, you have to ask every member, but I believe that it's a winner. And, by the way, it called the 'Affordable Care Act.' It's called the 'Affordable Care Act.' I know you didn't intend any compliment or derogatory... it's called the 'Affordable Care Act.' And the Affordable Care Act... when people know what it is and see what it means to them. And that's a case we have to make. We're grownups. When Franklin Roosevelt moved forward with social security, he said, 'I'm so convinced about this, now make me do it. Everybody has to spread the word as to what this is. As the President said yesterday, 'Change is hard. It always is.'

Affordable. Affordable. There's a reason. Affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable, affordable. The reason they changed the name of it is because opponents want to get away from the word "affordable." And that's why I'm patient with some of these comments. Whatever it is, it's infinitely more affordable than the path we're on without the Affordable Care Act."

AND, the same Pelosi who was caught recently prodding Rep Andre Carson (D) IN, to say he is Muslim; http://invesbrain.com/item/nancy-pelosi-...slim-74819
So much for any hope of objectivity from House Democrats, and yet in this we see clearly how shallow and gullible Dems continue to view the mental awareness of their base.

On the Senate side Dems fare no better as we have Minority Leader Chuck Schumer who, as his inaugural address revealed, is similarly infected with the same illness of the former Speaker, and can't quite manage to rise past the level of curmudgeon status. Boycotts, bruised egos and paid civil disobedience are the true face of identity politics, and hardly a fitting political platform worthy of our noble heritage.