point in the economic cycle where you wouldn t do that. the economy is strong. if it heats, you get investment bubbles, people think that happened in the 90s. so the fed is naturally going to respond to that by raising interest rates to try to kind of pull back. and so powell, who is a consensus choice, respected on both sides of the aisle, run the fed for 40 years. the alternative for trump is he could have picked a name like a lot of conservative republicans would have wanted. that would be a person more inclined to raise interest rates. trump auto wouwould be less hap that pole is i. he would need a crony of his who would only base rates on the president s short-term political needs. if he was hopping for the fed not to raise rates, someone like that would be unlikely to get confirmed. republicans who view inflation rates differently from how the
republicans love ronald reagan and they love talking about how they love ronald reagan. donald trump last night invited ed meece, reagan s attorney general to be there. he paid tribute to justice scalia s widow, who he has consulted in some of these supreme court decisions. so he talked about reagan, he talked about keeping up president reagan s tradition of not asking candidates about their specific views on policies. so this was an effort to unify republicans and by the way, if there had been a president jeb bush or marco rubio or ted cruz he might well have nominated brett kavanaugh. he is clearly very, very qualified and a consensus choice. bill: who has the heartburn today on the democratic side? heitkamp, manchin, donnelly?
too, because i think the conventional wisdom, if you will, is that if the president chooses judge barrett, then he s angling for a fight during the midterm election year because it would create a lot of controversy, a lot of democratic wringing of hands. but who s the judge he would choose if he was trying to get a couple democrats to select someone as a consensus choice? that s exactly the great question, right, because judge barrett, she s had a lot of writing on religion. so maybe some of the republicans who are believe in abortion rights might think, wait, what are we going to do here? whereas you ve got kavanaugh, for instance, because he worked for the george w. bush administration, there are thousands of documents that are being held in the george w. bush library. so if he were to get the nod, that might change the time frame. keep in mind, there s a lot of people in the senate that want to move quickly and get this
law students their legal career should be viewed as a means to an end in building the kingdom to god. and another person being interviewed has never been a judge at all. today a spokesperson for republican senator mike lee of utah confirmed the president spoke with lee about that job on monday. but no matter who gets picked from the president s short list of conservatives, they most assuredly will not be a consensus choice. according to a new poll from nbc news and survey monkey, 44% say it should be a moderate. democratic leadership has tried calling on republicans to wait until after the midterms before a confirmation vote. not only are there no signs that mcconnell wants to do that, there s new evidence the public doesn t want to delay this confirmation battle either. a majority of the country, 62%, says the senate should vote on this pick before the midterms. which leads democrats fighting a
happen. we re not going to see a nominee confirmed before the election. the president is bringing in moderates like a joe manchin state like west virginia where the president carried by double digits. they re going to be under pressure to support this nominee. sure. but you don t need democrats anymore to get a supreme court nominee confirmed. this is the process now, the senate is now a broken institution. it used to be you needed a consensus choice, you needed 60 votes. you don t need it anymore. he might get a few democratic votes. it s possible. it s a luxury. he doesn t need it. what it means to me is the courts are going to be as broken as the other branches of the government. it s sad. ed: hang on. if it s broken in the senate, wasn t the democratic leader, harry reid, that in 2013 yeah. ed: so you blame your own party for leading us down this road with lower court nominees