Posted on 03/21/2016 3:21:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
An effort by liberal groups to pressure Republicans to allow Senate consideration of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee got off to a modest start Monday as small groups of demonstraters rallied outside lawmakers’ offices around the country. A bigger election-year battle ramped up as both sides brought their viewpoints to television, social media and supporters’ email inboxes.
Five days after Obama tabbed federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland for the vacant seat, about 25 people appeared outside the Columbus, Ohio, office of GOP Sen. Rob Portman, who is backing Republican leaders’ insistence on awaiting the pick of whoever is elected president in November. Some carried signs saying “#DoYourJob,” a battle cry of Senate Democrats aimed at their GOP colleagues, and “#FillTheSeat.”
“The idea that they need to wait until the people have spoken, well, the people already did speak,” said Barbara Eakins, 70, an Ohio State University retiree. “They spoke when they elected Obama to office twice.”
Similar-sized crowds were observed at rallies in Austin, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Des Moines, Iowa, respectively targeting GOP Sens. John Cornyn, Ron Johnson, Pat Toomey and Charles Grassley. …
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The Brown Shirts are getting restless.
WOW .... 25 whole people!!!!!! Thats newsworthy!!!. If there was 25000 people in favor for waiting for the next potus, to pick the nominee, there would be NO news coverage.
Most of the rent-a-mobs are tied up harassing Trump and his followers.
The adults are about to show up.
These “rallies” will turn into riots in the next few months if the moral position doesn’t relent. Watch and see.
Violence isn’t restricted to the Black Lies Matter anarchists. Marxists all act alike.
And people were lulled into a false sense of security with the USSR’s fall, calling communism “dead” when it was becoming more lively than ever.
Someone needs to keep replaying the tape of Sen Joe Biden in the summer of 1996 on the Senate floor telling the world that the INCOMING President should choose a Supreme Court replacement.
Funny how the Dems can be on ALL sides of an issue & do it with a straight face.
And the Asspress is among the ones urging them to do it. It actually took two hacks to write this drivel.
Grassley and his Senate Judiciary Cmte. SHOULD have a hearing for O’s nominee. Show how the guy has the same hatred for the Constitution as O. Then, reject him. Easy, peasy. It should take an hour or two at most.
But, no. As usual, the GOP screws up.
If the GOP ever again has the White House, this will come back to bite them in the arse. It’s another GOP gift for present and future Democrats.
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