How's the Court, Ruthie? Eh, it's like Death Around Here

After having a pair of cancerous nodules removed from her lung, Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg has missed her third strait day of oral arguments before the court.

We here at William Stroock dot blogspot dot com demand proof of life. 

Thanks, folks. Don't miss our Saturday matinee.*

It's hard, nay, impossible not to laugh at the left' predicament. Just the other week a congregant at our temple offered a prayer for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Dems are effed and they know it.

Via the Kavanaugh fiasco, Schumer completely disincentivized any kind of bipartisan cooperation from Republicans like, we dunno, Lindsay Graham. Why last year Graham would have urged the president to appoint some sort of centrist leaning squish to the court, an Alberto Gonzales, and would have worked hard to build a GOP coalition for said centrist leaning squish.

No longer.

Schumer should have let Gorsuch through and then filibustered Kavanaugh.

Not only is Amy Schumer's uncle the worst Jew in America, he's the worst senate leader of our lifetime and we lived through Bill Frist.**

Do we wish the woman dead?

No of course not.

But we remember leftist celebration when Scalia died, sooooo….

[Hey, Will, not funny-Ed]

Quite right, Ed it's serious. Deadly serious. 

Ha! Don't forget to tip your waitresses, folks.

Mom?...Grandma's not moving.

*We stole that from an FBF

**With respects to the Tennessee contingent amongst our readers

Filibustering Maverick

So John McCain, author of the original Gang of 14 deal in 2005 that saved the judicial filibuster now says he will vote to nuke the filibuster this week.

I'm biased of course, but I've been less hostile to Senator McCain than a lot of other Conservatives. Sure he works hardest against other Republicans, he loves the media and he loves to Maverick.

So stipulated.

McCain was Goldwater's protegee. He has a sense of humor and used to go on the Imus show a lot. He would have whupped Algore in 2000. And on the big issues of the last 15 years he's been right. He went all out for W in 2004, something I was not sure he would do.The press loved him right up until he refused to follow their narrative on Iraq. Rather than make serious, stentorian speech about the need to withdraw, he stuck to his guns and supported the Surge. So did I. Here's his 2004 RNC speech. Michael more got it hard and dry:

No I am not a sycophant. I've long thought he is a walking case for term limits and indeed its time to go.

That said, I'm glad he's around to be right on Neil Gorsuch.