Expanding The Supreme Court

[Anomalocaris]

Yes, the precedence is exactly the point.   Precedence for our side to always use the greatest Conceivable ruthlessness to a ruin and destroy the works of the forces that animates the Republican Party, and ruin their operatives and supporters 

The republicans are setting the  precedence for winner taking all.   So taking all, not just that to which we seem entitled, from the republicans must be our overriding goal in dealing with them if we are to have anything Left in the end.

The republicans brought guns and knives to every negotiating table.  You better not rely on preaching negotiating etiquette to them If you want to emerge alive from the “negotiation”.

If you don’t want a single party state, then the Republican Party must be destroyed.    You don’t let a malignant and aggressive cancer stay in you and hope to coach it to play nice for good health.

As Scipio Africanus would say "Factio Reublicanus delenda est!"

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Democrats like Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema wouldn't support it.

Kick them out of the party.  Tell them they'll never get a penny in funding ever again and that the party will run hard against them every time they poke their heads out of the gutter for even one freaking second.

In other words, create a party whip and start using it.  It's inconceivable that backsliding idiots like Manchin or Sinema would last even a wet week within Irish party politics without getting a short, sharp and severe lesson in what being a party member is all about.

I believe that was Cato The elder,  not Scipio Africanus.    Scipio was an erudite, moderate and agreeable person who was also a military genius, and savior of his country.  Cato’s talent lies primarily in exhorting people to abuse their slaves. 

And the Republican Party today is far more like the overbearing Rome of Cato, determined to bring extinction to a long subdued and conciliatory Carthage, not the subdued Carthage that was almost limitlessly yielding except to the final exterminatory demand, but whose history still causes paranoid existential angst in the mind of the much more powerful Rome.

How much Carthage yielded to Rome and its cronies before the third Punic war, before it was still utterly destroyed and literally plowed into the ground and sown with salt By Rome,   should provide some illustrative example of what happens if one does not confront the likes of the american right wing of today.

Scipio Amilianus, the adoptive grandson of the afore mentioned Scipio Africanus and the actual executioner of Carthage in the war Cato instigated, reflected upon how Carthage fell and wept copiously for the day when  Rome will pay the price for her perfidy.   It seems difficult to imagine the henchmen of trump will be so introspective or humane.