Let’s Hear It For Punctiliousness

from Tansy RoakeMicropoetry

New Word Poem no. 16 – Punctilious

If ever I’m punctilious,
Please bring me up to task,
People are annoying,
When they’re talking out their arse.

mitch’s real pitch:

Supreme Court justices are nominated by the president and appointed with the advice and consent of the National Rifle Association, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

McConnell offered this unusual view of the confirmation process during an interview with Fox News Sunday. In response to a question from host Chris Wallace, who asked if Senate Republicans would consider the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court after the election if Hillary Clinton prevails, McConnell responded that he “can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association [and] the National Federation of Independent Businesses.”

tony, you’ll like this  from jay parini, poet and bernie voter, writing about ‘Why do they hate Hillary Clinton so much?’
[one of his examples:]
Truth-telling
She does shade the truth at times, as do all politicians, including Sanders. Politifact, an excellent website, measures the truth-quality of statements by everyone running for president on both sides of the aisle, and Clinton comes out as perhaps the most truthful of the pack, even more so than Sanders — although the two are more or less even, telling the whole truth or something like the truth about half the time. (By contrast, only 9% of the statements made by Donald Trump and reviewed by Politifact were rated “true” or “mostly true.” More than three quarters of Trump’s statements were rated “mostly false,” “false” or “pants on fire.”).

[his conclusion]
The abuse of Hillary Clinton must stop. She’s not perfect. But she’s smart, experienced and compassionate, and she will step into the Oval Office better prepared to take on an exacting job in difficult times than almost anyone in recent memory.

pogo, it may have been a case of neither one wanted the every day-ly slog .  much more fun to concentrate on producing a weekly show.  they both are good and all three fill a niche.

letter from george per cnn:

“If you listen to the loudest voices out there today, you’d think we’re a country that hates Mexicans, hates Muslims, and thinks that committing war crimes is the best way to make America great again,” Clooney writes in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by CNN.

“The truth is that the only thing that would prevent America from being great would be to empower these voices,” he writes. “In all of this clutter, there’s been one consistent voice. A voice of tolerance and experience, from a candidate who’s spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of the less fortunate. A candidate who knows firsthand the complexity of our international relationships. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.”

hillary at aipac

Several standing ovations here for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, promising a close partnership with Israel if she’s elected President and warning the 18,000 Jewish and pro-Israel voters here about the need for steady hands.

One of a few not so veiled swipes at the Republican front-runner Donald Trump:

(Clinton) “If you see bigotry oppose it. If you see violence condemn it. If you see a bully, stand up to him.”

thanks a lot, pogo, that picture really really gives me the willies and the conclusion on that article, nightmares of the great white hoax:

For all their blustery threats of third-party campaigns, defections to Hillary, and other acts of rebellion, Republican elites in the political game are more likely to bend to Trump than the other way around, no matter how many conservative op-ed columnists beg them not to do so. They still want to preserve any shred of power they can, and to do that, they must pitch in and try to win. You’ll notice that just about the only Republican politicians or campaign operatives who are vocal in the #NeverTrump claque are either congressmen who are retiring this year, party potentates who have long been out of power (Christine Todd Whitman, Ken Mehlman, J. C. Watts, Mel Martinez), or, as Trump would say, losers (anyone who served in the campaign hierarchies of Romney or Jeb, any neocon who served as a Bush-Cheney architect of the Iraq War). Everyone else will keep on doing what senators and governors like Orrin Hatch and Jeff Sessions and Paul LePage have steadily been doing: They will appease Trump or surrender to him altogether on the most favorable terms they can, for “the good” of the party and the ticket in November. They will make their peace with the art of the deal.