I am experiencing gut-wrenching terror. This is so bad.
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm sick to my stomach. DH was out picking up takeout, when the news broke. I can't eat.
Let's hear it for a brand new Klonopin prescription.
Oh dear God.
The good news is that the Senate would never appoint a new justice until after the election, right? Let the people decide????
Well, damn.
I saw on Twitter that Murkowski won't support voting for a new justice, but I'm afraid to look anywhere to confirm that, since I only just managed to stop crying.
What are the odds of 4 Republicans flipping their vote to stop a SCOTUS candidate from getting pushed through? Collins, maybe. Maybe Romney? Murkowski? And Graham's polling is terrible right now.
I am so sad and worried and scared.
I had only gotten as far as the wine and bread portion of the evening when I saw the news. I may not get any further. Wanted to be here with y'all, though.
Again from Twitter, Claire McCaskill said that McConnell knows pushing through a new justice before the election would lose them the Senate, and doing it in the lame duck session would hurt them in 2022.
I'm trying to figure out how best to yell at Cornyn and Cruz. It's not like I can appeal to their sense of decency.