Take the bait. Tell Jugears we’d be delighted to advise and perhaps consent on your nominee. Start the process of hearings. Make the process an endless referendum on every conceivable topic imaginable that would bear on the campaign. Daily headlines and discussions...quotes about the importance of the constitution, reminders of the treatment of Bork and Thomas.... A show trial that would make the old Russians blush. Make it last from now until past November. If there is any merit whatsoever to the man and (god forbid) a leftist gets elected...put him through!
If he is the center right possibility I have heard he might be. We have, after all, had some disasters with so-called “iron clad conservative” appointments and even a center right or moderate would beat whoever the left jams in there, should we lose the WH and/or enough of the down ticket house or senate seats to be weakened. We get a much older than usual nominee, and the possibility that he comes down at least center.
I say do it.
“Why Mr. Obama, we think it was uncommonly even handed, given your history of leftist trickery, to make this nomination!” OK, we don’t come right out and say it in so many words, but we do say it in deed.
If we win the election and maintain control ... hey! Thanks for your time and trouble, but we’ll have to consider this until February. Then we can take the measure of the new President’s alternate proposal, in the event it is a lefty and we all KNOW what that will look like.
We win in either event or at worse, come out better than we might if we roll the dice. Why not advise and consent on our own terms? Then the lib press can STFU about how unfair we are. Well, we know they will find fault about “dragging it out, but they gotta earn their payoffs somehow.
We have the ball with plenty of time on the clock. Why not use it?
No, do not take any action, be the party of No for once and stand by it.
Cooke on Scalia Replacement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FiMW4oVW8
GOP needs to stand their ground and they have every right to do it
No way! If this EVER gets out of committee all the pressure will be on the squishy Republicans, you know, the usual suspects, and they WILL cave to the god of bipartisan cooperation. If this ever gets out of committee then you will know for certain it’s game over.
Agreed.
They totally should do the dog and pony show and then reject him because he is anti-2nd amendment.
Right now, it’s hubris and won’t go over well with independents - you know, the voters that support Trump.
Outstanding!
Garland is the perfect candidate for the actions you describe. He was confirmed 19 years ago, so there’s no doubt he has “evolved” on many important constitutional issues. A reasonable review of his positions, and answers to questions posed by Senators, could easily take a year and a half.
Are you nuts. Why even give this Marxist the time of day?
Trouble is, once McConnell caves and DOES allow a hearing, the RINOs in the Senate will melt like snow in the rain and whatever cockamamie bat-guano crazy liberal fruit loop is sent up by the Current Occupant will be confirmed with only a few dissenting votes by the full Senate.
Remember the ringing words of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), “We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, except in extraordinary circumstances. They must prove by actions, not words, that they are in the mainstream rather than we have to prove that they are not.”
I have a little trouble with Senator Schumer’s definition of the “mainstream”, as well.
Nah, just spike him. It’s more humiliating to a personality like Obama and infuriates the Progressives.