What could possibly be the common thread here?
-- Susan Rice, former UN Ambassador and National Security Advisor and current head of the Domestic Policy Council, withdrew her name from consideration for Secretary of State after Senate Republicans made it known she was "un-confirmable."
-- Neera Tanden was forced to withdraw her nomination to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget following a right- wing smear campaign (with an assist from Maserati Joe Manchin); she's now White House staff secretary, a position not requiring Senate confirmation.
-- Vanita Gupta, barely confirmed as Assistant Attorney General after another smear campaign by Republican groups.
-- Prof. Lisa Cook, President Biden's nominee for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, is under attack by Republicans in another racist smear campaign.
Now we have the prospect of an eminently qualified black woman being nominated to the Supreme Court and, on schedule, Republicans have tuned up their dog whistles bull horns in going after the concept of such an appointment, which Biden had made as a campaign promise back in February 2020. Smarmy hypocrite Republican Sen. "Moscow Mitch" McConnell has already had the gall to "warn" President Biden not to pick a "radical" nominee, by which standard he would likely judge any woman of color "radical" because yada yada BLM, The Squad, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, etc., etc.
Then there's Mississippi Republican redneck Sen. Roger "You Don't Get Thicker Than" Wicker who opened his sexist/ racist hole yesterday:
During an appearance on a Mississippi radio program on Friday, Wicker dismissed Biden’s eventual choice as a “beneficiary” of “affirmative racial discrimination,” lamenting that the court would be saying goodbye to a “nice, stately” justice. [snip]
“The irony is that the Supreme Court is, at the very time, hearing cases about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination while adding someone who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota,” Wicker told SuperTalk Mississippi’s Paul Gallo.
The irony is that Wicker is the beneficiary of "good ol' boy affirmative action" that elevated his wrinkly white ass to the U.S. Senate, regardless of his obvious lack of two brain cells to rub together.
Insurrectionist Sen. Josh "HawHaw" Hawley (Sedition-MO) provided a statement lacking in self- awareness but full of shit, that included the buzz words "woke left," "race-obsessed, gender-obsessed," and the ne plus ultra, "I hope Republicans are ready to stand up for the Constitution," which surprisingly didn't cause him to combust on the spot.
Perpetually concerned hypocrite Sen. Susan Collins (FU- Maine), having gone along with the flash confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett shortly before the 2020 election, now wants to take all the time necessary (possibly hoping one of her octogenarian Senate Democrat colleagues won't make it to 2022, and flip the Senate back to the fascists):
“This time," Collins continued, "there is no need for any rush. We can take our time, have hearings, go through the process — which is a very important one. It is a lifetime appointment, after all.” So true! Now is the time to really sit and deliberate. The past two nominees were, only in the strictest and most literal sense, the deciding votes that could overturn Roe v. Wade; this nominee will be the one who has to sit there collegially dissenting after it happens, a role that requires a great deal more scrutiny.
We'll just mention in passing the now- deleted tweet from far- right libertarian and recent, lesser Georgetown Law hire Ilya Shapiro that has all the blatant sexist racism that others prefer to couch in softer terms.
It's all par for the course for what has become a thoroughly white nationalist party, with all its toxic masculinity in full bloom.
BONUS: The white nationalist scream machine is riling up the knuckle-draggers again.
