I Wonder

A very, very, very short post to the blog tonight, shortest from me you’ve ever read.

Didn’t know I could write briefs? Hey in the bad old days working the night and overnight desk for the AP in Newark once an hour we had to do what were calls “splits”, splitting off from the state news wire to serve the member radio stations with “rip and read copy”; you know, like:

“Gov. Smith (no such person) said today he favored taxing chocolate, bringing a ringing endorsement from his side of the aisle but a vow from Senate President No Name Jones that the opposition will, in his words, “will never let them tax your candy.”

Or, “A Marlton man died tonight in a two car collision on Route 38 in Cherry Hill. Police said the dead man, xxx xxxxx, was a father of two and on his home from work when a car driven by xxxx xxxxx crossed the median divide ad hit xxxxx’s car.

“And that’s New Jersey news, stay tuned in an hour for another report.”

So, you know, the 1 minute news report with stuff like that, written by moi, ripped from the wire and read by a DJ and then back to Rock ‘N Roll.

So in brief I wonder:

I wonder how many pregnancies that owe to Donald Trump’s sexual appetites have been terminated, with the terminations arranged by Michael Cohen and his predecessors as fixer?

Don’t you think there have been? But a year from the week with his next SCOTUS nominee, the U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly, definitely, absolutely, nullify Roe v. Wade. Do I have a crystal ball? No. Do I have good instincts about this stuff? Oh, yes I do.

Two years ago about right now a young woman editor at Politico turned down a piece I’d sent her about how the most consequential issue in the election, yhea, that election, the one two years ago — the most consequential issue for any female in this county between the ages of 14 and 44, and for their mothers and grandmothers, was choice.

The then 28-year-old woman editor at Politico turned it down, not germane or some such she said. It is now. Not just as a general proposition but as a fact in her own life, huh?

Ok, this could have been briefer, so I’ll stop here now.

Except for this. Short of Sen. Jezebel, R-Maine (I leave her messages calling Susan Collins that), short of her changing parties (which would be smart because if she don’t she becomes the NUMBER 1 Democratic Party target in 2022 and she wants at least one more term). But short of that, there is no way to stop his nominee from being confirmed.

The only way to stop that is if Collins and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska, R) vote no. Don’t hold your breath on that. Collins is a sniveling, wheedling coward who believes McConnell even though she knows every time his promises to her are lies. Murkowski? Like all Alaskans in Congress representing that weird state where almost no one lives, she’s a shopper — she will have a list of things she wants, she will give it to McConell and he will fill her shopping bag and get her vote.

And then there will go Roe v. Wade, maybe the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Great Society, maybe even all the way back to the New Deal. They want to repeal the 20th Century.  The Federalist Society has laid it all out and they’ll use the high court to do it.

They have been planning this for 60 years. By Oct. 1 they will have the 5 votes on the SCOTUS to do it. So, why would they not do what they now can after lusting after it for 60 years or more. Of course they will.