That's what my favorite Senator said about the Republicans after last night's debate, The Republican Party 'has gone batshit.' Always did like Lindsey Graham (R, SC), my image of him cemented by a stray tv shot during Jon Roberts' confirmation hearings showing him standing in the back of the room, saluting with a glass of scotch as Roberts declared he would merely be calling balls and strikes   Now I can't swear it was scotch, it did look like a crystal snifter unlikely to hold anything but and he was toasting with it.

I do worry. Trump has been counted out from the beginning by all the pundits and political mavens.  But there he is, gathering steam from the cheers of this followers  while inflating his insatiable ego.

Donald Trump Retweets Post With Quote From Mussolini http://nyti.ms/1phAW8M

“It’s a very good quote,” said Mr. Trump. “I didn’t know who said it, but what difference does it make if it was Mussolini or somebody else — it’s a very good quote.”

right as usual ...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott gets run out of Starbucks by an enraged customer, called an asshole and embarrassment.

NY Daily News

Florida Gov. Rick Scott yelled at by Starbucks customer

Trump-loving Florida Gov. Rick Scott received a scalding order at a Starbucks in Gainesville Tuesday - and it definitely wasn't a coffee. An enraged customer was caught on camera chewing out the Sunshine State's bumbling leader, calling him an "a--hole" and an "embarrassment" and running him out of the cafe empty-handed.

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Obama with a bit of humor in Chicago ...

"When I look at Merrick Garland, yeah, he's a white guy but he's a really outstanding jurist. Sorry."

"At no point did I say: 'I need a black lesbian from Skokie in that slot. Can you find me one?'" Mr. Obama said. "That’s not how I approached it."

Nytimes

Obama Revisits Law School to Give a Supreme Court Lecture

CHICAGO - For a dozen years at the University of Chicago Law School, President Obama taught students the finer points of constitutional jurisprudence, preaching what he would later try to put into practice in the Oval Office.

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Illma Gore's Artwork

and of course those tweets:

it seems the insidious creep of fundamentalism works well with texting. Text  talaq talaq talaq  and you're wife is divorced, I suppose it does save on lawyer fees and such, so that's one plus. Nowhere in the article is any mention of the wife having the same option, I guess the thought just wouldn't even occur to anyone.

The Independent

Muslim men can divorce women with three words in India. Now women's groups are tying to change that

Muslim women in India are petitioning the country's Supreme Court to ban 'triple talaq' as a means of instant divorce, arguing it is unconstitutional, discriminatory and contrary to Islamic law. A 'triple talaq' allows a husband to instantly divorce his wife, either orally or in writing, simply by repeating the term 'talaq' - or divorce - three times.

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Given the Senate he might just as well have nominated a Black Lesbian from Skokie, preferably one who votes a strait communist party ticket.

Well that would have given them a solid reason to deny confirmation instead of floundering about and coming up with no excuse for the lack of action. 

I can understand why the Republicans don't want to confirm another Justice, but the refusal to even talk to the man and perhaps go through the motions before denying, is another manifestation of their lack of respect and total rejection of the President, from immediately after the first election and here the NO! just a couple of hours after the death of Scalia.