Posted on 03/31/2017 7:46:08 AM PDT by kevcol
Former Vice President Joe Biden said as the Republicans were blocking President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, nine GOP senators told him they knew they were doing the wrong thing.
“I call 17 Republicans and say, ‘You know better,’” Biden said Thursday. “Nine of them said to me, ‘You’re right Joe, but I can’t do anything about it because if I do the Koch brothers or somebody is going to drop $5 million into my race and I’ll lose my primary.’”
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Bork and Thomas.
+1
Yeah.. sure, Joe.
You’re to be believed, because... why?
Sure thing, Plugs.
Name them or go skinny dipping in front of the Secret Service for the millionth time.
You sure do have an inflated self-peception.
*waves*
I’d ask you to name them Dopey Joe but that would be an unfair making fun of the mentally challenged. I’ll just laugh at you instead.
colins, snow, mccain, graham, and five others I bet :)
stupid RINO’s
that’s the key point.
It’s CALLED the BIDEN RULE for frick’s sake.
Next month Biden will have corrected it to say the Republicans were afraid of Putin leaking dirt on them. Joe's a bit slow sometimes, so we'll have to give him a pass on the fact that the Koch boys are no longer the current boogyman.
Another lying a$$hole. He can’t even count to 19.
Let's see, McCain, Graham, Collins, Murkowski, Snow, and so forth.
He would if someone else wrote the words for him. ;-)
Joseph R. Biden, while a senator in 1992, said that if a Supreme Court vacancy occurred, President George Bush should not appoint a nominee until after the election, or should compromise on a nominee with the Senate. By C-SPAN on Publish Date February 22, 2016. . Watch in Times Video »
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WASHINGTON — As a senator more than two decades ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. argued that President George Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, should one arise, until the presidential election was over, and that it was “essential” that the Senate refuse to confirm a nominee to the court until then.
Mr. Biden’s words, though uttered long ago, are a direct contradiction to President Obama’s position in the battle over naming a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia.
Mr. Obama has said it is his constitutional responsibility to name a successor to Justice Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at the age of 79. The president has reacted with incredulity to the suggestion by several Republican presidential candidates and senators, including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, that the decision should wait until after Mr. Obama has left office.
“Historically, this has not been viewed as a question,” Mr. Obama said last week. “There’s no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off years — that’s not in the constitutional text.”
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Would not surprise me.
Libs have no problem fabricating events that never happened if it pushes an agenda. They constantly invert cause and effect.
Turns out there was no custom. The Bushes were just waiting for a non globalist to criticize.
I’m so glad I did not vote for Kelly Ayotte.
Given the low odds they were giving Trump on a victory it seems Dems were pretty much given the seat, all they had to do was win.
Not our fault they blew it.
Campaign outside of CA and NY next time,.
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