Posted on 02/16/2016 3:08:10 PM PST by Kaslin
Supreme Court: Senate Democrats demanding that Republicans let President Obama pick a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia appear to be counting on the public's short attention span. But there's no statute of limitations on rank hypocrisy.
"The Senate's constitutional duty to give a fair and timely hearing and a floor vote to the president's Supreme Court nominees has remained inviolable." That was Sen. Harry Reid in a Washington Post op-ed this week condemning any effort by the GOP to block President Obama from naming a successor to conservative stalwart Scalia.
He went on to write that "the consequences of blocking any nominee, regardless of merits, would hang over their heads for the rest of their careers."
Reid has apparently forgotten his own role in trying to do just that a decade ago, when he joined a 2006 filibuster attempt by Senate Democrats to block Samuel Alito, President George W. Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, saying it was "an opportunity for people to express their opinion as to what a bad choice it was."
Alito had the votes to win confirmation, but 24 Democrats - including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and then-freshman Sen. Barack Obama - nevertheless tried to keep him off the bench. The filibuster attempt failed, but the fact that Democrats tried it all calls the lie to Reid's claim.
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Rank hypocrisy is standard procedure for democrats and their mediaPAC.
IF the shoe was on the other foot, WWDD?
(Hint: They would do what they’ve always done.)
When don’t they?
Democrat hypocrisy is an unknown phenomenon to the American people.
We are counting on McConnell to thwart Zer0 from ramming through a SC nominee.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Democrats display supreme hypocrisy on a lot of issues, matters not to them as long as it keeps their base in their camp.
Democrats don’t play by the rules
The Stupid party always play by the rules while letting the other side ignore the rules
I remember watching the Clarence Thomas hearings and Anita Hill and her “pubic hair on my Coke” BS.
Anita Hill ended up with a cushy job, after her “testimony”
Yeah, I remember that too.
The rats sure are masters in hypocrisy
That’s who they are.. dirty low down ugly vicious varmints.
I watched them too and read Justice Thomas’ book. Who here thinks the libs won’t take full advantage of the new movie coming out about Anita Hill?
No
Do they care? All they know is what they want, and they're absolute masters at getting it.
So sad.
The Dems have a long history with Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush, of being on the record that the Republican President cannot exercise a federal bench power of appointment, in one case with 13 months left in his term.
The R's need to keep that out front in the PR dispute that is forthcoming.
Further, I can think of no reason why Barry in the White House would not step up with a recess appointment of Eric Holder tomorrow morning.
The R's need to make conciliatory statements about considering and voting on the appointment every day until next Tuesday.
McConnell needs to step up and get a technical session in process tomorrow morning and end the recess agreement. If Barry steps up with his recess appointment while the R's are sitting on their thumbs, we should never forget it.
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