Why we have weekends - Robert Reich (2:26): https://youtu.be/Z8y3Y6w-b4w?si=SCvt80onlNHzmpjq We got yet another good jobs report from the Biden Administration Friday. Remember how the previous administration had been one of only two administrations to preside over job losses during their term. The other loser was Herbert Hoover, also a Republican. The formula for successful job…
upped this travel ban. but that s an important one as well. i want to point out, i think, joe, that this decision yesterday for a lot of people who voted for donald trump who had to hold their noses, it was about a supreme court ice, but gorsuch, yeah, but we got gorsuch, yesterday is a validation for them. that the vote that they put in, that mitch mcconnell helped to hold u merritt garland. they got gorsuch and they expect others to benefit for that for that they can justify their vote for donald trump and continue to support him. unfortunately, mika, the ends justify the means, i guess if you re mitch mcconnell and not only that. but he rubs, he rubs half of america s noses in mud. by trolling them after supreme court decision which admiral stavridis said is going to have terrible consequences globally
migrant children crying after being taken from their parents, asking mcconnell, why are you separating the families? secretary chao can be seen shouting back for the protesters to leave her husband alone. so jon meacham, we ll put that video to the side for just a moment. back to the merrick garland point, we don t know exactly how he would have voted. but obviously, mitch mcconnell and the people who supported the move by mitch mcconnell to kill that nomination are happy this morning, because they got judge gorsuch and perhaps this decision out of it. it was a generational victory. gorsuch is a young man. i suspect he might be looking at 40 years or so. and mcconnell and really an unprecedented not a word we use much power play. a raw move pre-trump. let s be clear, decides that he s going to hold obama hostage, basically. and in many ways, overturn 230 years of presidential persistent in terms of supreme court appointments. in and it was shocking then and
it proved shockingly effective. and the real question is going to be, ultimately, when the shoe is on the other foot, war that the democrats going to do? and you know, it wouldn t stun me to see i m sure i don t know this, but i suspect people in the party are arguing, well, if i were a democratic strategist, i would say, well, you know what, trump didn t win the popular vote. why don t we just filibuster any appointment and just rock n roll? you know, and rock along. i think we ve the supreme court has always been just, you know, obviously, clearly a political body. the supreme court nominations now have been wednesdaponized is war that i don t think we ve seen the end of it. joe? yeah, and i think, mike barnicle, that will be we talked about it last hour, the legacy of mitch mcconnell. one of the great legacies is making dysfunctional one of the
senate, as it was for president p. mitch mcconnell played the long game. he said i m going to wait and see if we can get a republican in the white house, even as president trump was running it and republicans were nervous about whether or not he was going to be able to get that seat. mitch mcconnell stood his ground and they got neil gorsuch and mitch mcconnell tweeted out a picture yesterday of him shaking hands with neil gorsuch. it was because mitch mcconnell feels like if there s anything that the republicans did, we insured that the supreme court is going to have our back here. and the supreme court, the other panelists can talk about how legal this is if a political point of view. the dissent said we re worried about this because of what the president said on the campaign trail. because of the fact he s been talking about muslims in the derogatory way and the supreme court said hey, the president has these powers and that s it there s a lot of talk about president trump s rhetori