Trump-GOP Big Win With Kavanaugh: Six Cases Argued and 37 Pending this 2018-2019 Term

Which State Will be First to Introduce Roe v. Wade Challenge

(Biggest case conservatives long to overturn)

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): The double-dealing hypocrite “leading” this GOP Majority Senate – his latest BS from TPM

McConnell Won't Commit to Holding SCOTUS Vacancy

Open During Election Year

Background on McConnell:

McConnell would not commit to holding open any Supreme Court vacancy under Trump created in a presidential election year, the way he blocked Obama’s nominee Judge Merrick Garland even without a committee hearing for nearly a whole year – ostensibly because the seat had opened after the presidential primaries had started – or so he said.

Look back in time to this speech by McConnell at a rally in KY (August 6, 2016) – something we must beat this jerk up with at every opportunity:

My 2 cents: One thing I will say about McConnell and not with pride or affection, either. He is clever, shrewd, conniving con-man just like Trump with only one purpose despite his floor speeches otherwise: Keep things on his side at all costs all the while blaming others for his failures without ever blaming his side. 

– And yes, sometimes the DEMS play this silly-ass game, too – ergo: Both sides are hypocrites while professing to “serve the American people.”

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* FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY THIS DATE (October 7, 2018):

1.  U.S. in the longest war ever: Now 17 years in Afghanistan.

2.  U.S. KIA to date: 2,327 - U.S. wounded in the thousands.

3.  Unknown Taliban and Afghan civilian deaths due to poor data.

4.  U.S. cost now: $1 billion a week and over $1 trillion to date & counting.

5.  Trump despite his words has increased U.S. troop strength by some 40% (4,000 more troops added by him). Total now there: 14,000.

6.  Factoid: Obama dropped 1,377 bombs in 2016 – Trump dropped 4,361 in his first 7 months in office all the while claiming “victory.”

7.  B/L: There is no end in sight – the Taliban will not give up.

Another Tidbit: This story is still developing – if the business angle sticks with Trump, then that’s very bad news. Cite: This story from the Washington Post.

Erik Prince as you may recall is best known for founding Blackwater USA, then called Xe, and later renamed to Academi. He served as the CEO until 2009 and later as chairman, until he sold Blackwater Worldwide in 2010 to a group of investors.

Prince now heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and he is chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group Ltd.  He also is the younger brother of Edu. Secy. Betsy DeVos.

His complete rundown is here.