Posted on 03/20/2016 7:52:12 AM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON • The Republican Party's incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle. The multiplicity of Republican rationalizations for their refusal to even consider Merrick Garland radiates insincerity.
Republicans instantly responded to Antonin Scalia's death by proclaiming that no nominee, however admirable in temperament, intellect and experience, would be accorded a hearing. They say their obduracy is right because:
Because they have a right to be obdurate, there being no explicit constitutional proscription against this.
Or because President Obama's demonstrated contempt for the Constitution's explicit text and for implicit constitutional manners justifies Republicans reciprocating with contempt for his Supreme Court choice, regardless of its merits.
Or because, 24 years ago, then-Sen. Joe Biden — he is not often cited by Republicans seeking validation — suggested that a president's right to nominate judges somehow expires, or becomes attenuated, in a "political season," sometime after the midterm elections during a second presidential term.
Or because if a Republican president tried to fill a court vacancy during his eighth year, Democrats would behave the way Republicans are behaving.
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George, when Martin Luther used the phrase
“foul bag of maggots,” he was surely referring
to Gracchites like you.
THIS is an example of what the word “conservative” has become. It means “back stabbing weasel and lying promise breaker.” THIS is why I do not call myself a conservative - I have too much integrity.
George Will, the media’s favorite ‘conservative’.
But were he to shut up we’d be deprived of such gems as radiating multiplicities. That’s comedy gold right there.
yeah sure, pointing out the truth is always non productive- whatever- not sure how it makes him a ‘non person’ to state the FACT that he is anti-second amendment and not worthy of holding hte highest legal position i nthe land-
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