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I'm rather tired of folks who say that the Senate should usually defer to the President on Supreme Court appointments.

And yes, I suppose what's good for the goose is good for the gander. The same should apply when a GOP President sends a nominee to a Democrat Senate.

Would this sometimes lead to gridlock? Sure, but that's to be expected, as we are a seperation-of-powers nation.

1 posted on 02/14/2016 5:50:45 AM PST by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

These clowns allowed The Wise Latina to desecrate the SCOTUS, they will roll over faster then Reggie Love.


2 posted on 02/14/2016 5:56:32 AM PST by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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The president and the Dems buy off the Republicrats and other holdouts with bennies. LBJ invited the leading Republican senator (whose name escapes me) to the Whitehouse and asked him what it would take to get his support for the Great Society program. The senator pulled out a list and handed it to LBJ. It contained a list of committee chairmanships and other items. LBJ looked at it and said, done. That was how we got one of the most expensive and damaging programs in US history. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, -politics is all about who gets how much and when.-


3 posted on 02/14/2016 5:58:19 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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re: The word Consent implies that the Senate is not supposed to just roll over here.

THAT certainly explains Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen does it not.


4 posted on 02/14/2016 6:01:17 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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We will know when the Senate convenes if they move forward on Obama nominee, if there is any hope for the country...

Right now we are on a precipice of going into the thousands years of darkness Reagan spoke of...

5 posted on 02/14/2016 6:01:23 AM PST by Popman
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This senate will bend over and take whatever Justice zer0 shoves into the capital building


6 posted on 02/14/2016 6:05:03 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I certainly hope all those ‘real conservatives’ who were to proud to vote for Romney enjoy a 5-4 liberal supreme court. This is what comes from being too conservative to vote for the Republican nominee.


7 posted on 02/14/2016 6:14:25 AM PST by DugwayDuke
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Senate Republicans, are you listening?

Do you know how many Senate Republicans voted against Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

9 posted on 02/14/2016 6:30:28 AM PST by Jim Noble (I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone, and I won't question what or when or why when I'm gon)
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What we have most to fear is RINOs.

If the RINOs give their usual carte blanch to Obama--it will galvanize support for Trump.

The Trump Revolution is GUT-LEVEL RAGE against the destruction of America.

The decision facing Americans who love America is whether to rally behind Trump and FIGHT! or to submit to those who intend to destroy the U.S.A., watch America sink into decay, and hope that the fall of America will not be too bad...

In other words: We can Fight for America or watch America fall.

11 posted on 02/14/2016 7:07:08 AM PST by Savage Beast (We see an ocean of crashing waves, as black holes create a violent storm in the fabric of space-time)
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We know who’s in the senate. And you expect them to fight?


13 posted on 02/14/2016 8:04:32 AM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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