Did you ever wonder what a dancing turtle looks like? Anyone in the vicinity of Moscow Mitch last Friday night could tell you.
Yertle has been dancing since the news of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's passing. He wasted no time in letting the world know he'd stand by his sacred hypocrite's oath to do exactly the opposite of the last thing he did if it brings him what he wants.
So, of course, in filling Supreme Court seats, a president who is a Democrat loses his pick if one opens up in the year of an election but a president who is a Republican keeps his pick when one opens less than two months out.
This is Mitch's time. His gray ash grin beams from his deep dank murky place in swampland. Soon, he'll have a solid conservative leaning Supreme Court to go with the lower court benches he's been stacking the last 4 years.
The rest of his Death Cultists will follow along to rush one of their own to the high court because they live by the same principle: control by any means necessary. Not one of them, no matter what their press agent says, stands for anything of benefit to the majority of Americans.
Ginsberg's untimely passing brought hope to Yertle who was seeing dark skies above his mucky bog. While he'll likely cruise to another term in November, things have been looking iffy for Republicans holding on to the Senate and the White House. The only pleasure he's gotten lately is watching those unfortunate Americans hanging by a thread in circumstances brought on by pandemic hang by a thread. He might as well enjoy something before the D takeover.
A takeover means his court stacking days would likely be over. Falling short would mean those promises he's made of a conservative supreme court wouldn't be kept. I'm not talking about the promise of overturning Roe vs Wade, either. He couldn't care less about that one.
The promises he wants to keep are to his bankrollers, you know, the handful of billionaires he works for. That's the promise to equate money to speech so there's no limit to the oligarchy's control of the government. That's the promise to roll back environmental laws. It's the promise to keep money rolling into big pharma and health insurance by overturning healthcare laws.
It's the promise to favor corporations over individuals, to empower businesses to profit from government, and to support monopolies at all times.
It's the promise to limit the rights of individual Americans to vote while putting no limits on the corporation's ability to effect votes.
These are the promises of a conservative court the majority of Repbublican's political class are trying to keep. Justice for anyone not in the club will not be considered.
So as soon as the Donald announces his "pick" from McConnell's short list of Federalist Society approved choices, the swamp master will pull his oozing majority together to put what may or may not be the last stamp on the Trump era.
The Notorious RBG has left the building. Yertle from Kentucky will be dancing on her grave.