Posted on 02/22/2016 11:37:55 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Vice President Joe Biden argued that the president should not name a Supreme Court nominee to fill any vacancy during an election year until after the election is completed and that if the president did name a pick during an election year, the Judiciary Committee should "seriously consider" not having hearings until after the campaign is over and that this was "fair to the nominee and essential to the process" in a speech on the Senate floor on June 25, 1992 that was flagged by C-SPAN user jeremyart and tweeted by C-SPAN.
Biden said, "[I]t is my view that if a Supreme Court justice resigns tomorrow, or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer, President Bush should consider following the practice of the majority of his predecessors and not name a nominee until the November election is completed."
He added that if the president did push an election-year nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee should "seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until ever -- until after the political campaign season is over."
He further stated that delaying action on a Supreme Court nomination until after the election was "fair to the nominee and essential to the process. Otherwise...we will be in deep trouble as an institution."
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That is one funny pic, lol!!!
Uncle Joe, the gift that keeps on giving. Or is that fruitcake? Anyway what is the difference?
Well I am sure that Biden's views have evolved since then. After all that was almost 14 years ago. He has accumulated a wealth of experience since then.
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If Biden had two brain cells to call his own he wouldn't be a Democrat he would be a much more appealing tree sloth.
Senate Republicans need to start making speeches on the Senate floor and elsewhere paraphrasing Democrats. Don’t say you are paraphrasing them, just use the same words they used when blocking Republican nominees and substitute the new names and parties.
Three good first choices are Ted Kennedy’s “Bork’s America” speech and Chuckie Schumer’s and Plugs Biden’s “Senate should block any Bush nominees” speeches.
Looks like Joe is waiting for his happy ending.
This video deserve 1000 BUMPS !!! Every talk show in America needs to play that audio this week !!!
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