Bossie to Senate Republicans: Do Not Budge

In light of the discussion of whether or not President Obama should nominate someone for the Supreme Court in 2016, I share with you these words of wisdom from a former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

[snip] The last thing the American people need right now is a bloody, drawn out political battle over the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s successor. Citizens United and our 500,000 members nationwide believe this process should begin in 2017 and not a minute before.

[snip] President Obama has already poisoned the process by telling the mainstream media to ignore precedent and shame Republicans in the Senate into moving forward. [snip]

There are very few trophies that conservatives can point to when they look at the past seven years. Taking back the House and the Senate are two, but to what end? [snip] If the GOP Congress does not hold strong on this all-important issue, they should expect the voter revolt to continue. It could very well spell the end of the modern Republican Party as we know it.

The lines have been drawn. Sens. McConnell and Grassley and the rest of the Senate GOP caucus must stand resolute – because the heat in the kitchen is about to get turned up by Obama-Clinton-Reid and their band of Alinskyites.

This could well be a turning point.

If the Republican party caves on this, what reason do any of us have to support the Republican party any longer?

The Republicans should be allowed to dissolve, as the Whig Party dissolved in the 1850s.

While there have been two major political parties for most of our history, the two parties have not always been today’s Democrat and Republican parties.

There’s no reason why the two parties have to be Republicans and Democrats. There’s no reason why we can’t have more than two major parties.

If the Republicans cave, what is the reason for being, the reason for the existence of the Republican party?

I certainly would be open to joining a new party which believed in conservative values/limited government/individual liberty.

History tells us the Republican party formed in the 1850s at the same time as the Whig Party was falling apart. A number of early Republicans were Whigs.

So why can’t we have a new conservative movement or party form, from disaffected Republicans and conservatives today?

And not saying I want to see a conservative 3rd party. I really want a conservative 2nd party which would challenge the Democrats. Not really wanting to see a 3rd party conservative party which simply weakens the Republicans and leaves the Democrats entrenched.

Then let’s keep the pressure on.

Otherwise, we will have 5 solid liberals out of 9 on the Supreme Court. If the liberals get 5 votes, then the liberal view of any issue in our federal courts will be imposed on all of us. Every single issue will be decided according to liberal theology.

I’m happy to leave Scalia’s seat vacant, and risk 4-4 tie votes on the court. Why are liberals decrying that there could be 4-4 votes?? Because they don’t get a 5-4 liberal majority vote???

Would the liberals be trying to scare us about how 4-4 votes on the Supreme Court don’t set legal precedent, if the shoe were on the other foot, and they were facing a conservative president who wanted to appoint a 5th conservative justice????

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