[U: 53-47! Bipartisan!] Even As Speaker Pelosi Tests Positive For Covid, Today Is A Historic Day: “KBJ”!

UPDATED — “Still, like air… she’ll rise…” The vote was 53-47. Meet the next Justice, America! End updated portion.

To be clear, the Speaker has no symptoms at present — even so, we wish her all the best, and continued robust good health.

But this moment I take, is to celebrate… KBJ Day 2022. She will be confirmed later today. She will be another first for people of color.

[But of nearly equal importance, she will prove that those shameless, hateful Senators who lied about her, her record, and her qualifications… are wholly-unfit to serve in the Senate, any longer. It is time to end the careers of the lying QAnon charlatans Blackburn, Cruz and Hawley… among others.]

Here are some of the positives, though — from the overall narrative arc of the story, this morning:

…All 50 Senate Democrats, including the two independents who caucus with them, are expected to vote for Jackson’s confirmation. They will be joined by at least three Republicans: Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee reached an 11-11 tie along party lines on the question of whether to advance Jackson’s nomination to a vote before the full Senate. Democrats, expecting the deadlock, immediately moved ahead with a procedural step to discharge the nomination to a vote before the full Senate.

During her hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee, Republicans attacked Jackson as a partisan and leaned heavily on culture war fights rather than inquiries concerning the nominee’s qualifications….

History will sternly rebuke the vast majority of today’s GOP… rightly, as it has, the supporters of then Alabama Governor George Wallace… in 1963.

Let them be eviscerated in prose, for all eternity, indeed. They now so-richly deserve it.

Onward, to a grand celebration evening, tonight!

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