This makes no sense to me. If this is White House strategy, they would have been smart enough to avoid the bad Trump comments in 1st place.https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/829693728923086848 …
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if this is all some genius strategy OK’d with Trump, why not just ask Trump to refrain from judicial criticism in 1st place
there's a difference between what WH Team will do to get J Gorsuch confirmed and amount of control over Trump himself
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Right. But my point has always been that this strategy is a risky one because real chance of bad reaction by Trump.
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this is why I think Gorsuch offered the mildest criticism of zTrump possible
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perhaps, but if strategic it strikes me as a strategy with a real risk of backfiring. And it sure looks like DT isn’t happy.
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smartest course would have been to demur. He was going to be confirmed; didn’t need to do this. Little to gain, lots to lose.
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strongly disagree for reasons in my post
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what doesn’t make sense to me: w/ this strategy, all risks borne by NMG but all benefits redound to Senate Rs, not him
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what does he have to gain personally from going along with this, even if Rs see benefit in more votes in favor?
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how can any self-respecting judge who must make public statements (as he now must at confirmation) say NOTHING about Trump?
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