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Supreme Court Fight: Quarter of Republican Senators Now Back Meetings for Merrick Garland
NBC News ^ | March 29, 2016 | Ari Melber

Posted on 03/29/2016 9:44:42 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

No doubt and I bet most of them are backing Ted Cruz so that there will be a brokered convention.


21 posted on 03/29/2016 10:02:11 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: C19fan

Who didn’t see this coming?


22 posted on 03/29/2016 10:04:39 AM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: C19fan

and the party elite wonders why trump is so popular....


23 posted on 03/29/2016 10:06:08 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: C19fan
The GOP is once again in the process of allowing a leftist appointment.

The American political class no longer cares about the general welfare. The political class has become totally venal seeking only money, perks and re-election. Indeed, a useful term that is coming into use is "Uniparty." The term should replace the terms Democratic and Republican

The electorate has become degenerate, unable to physiologically and psychologically defend itself. Evidence of degeneration is established by what the electorate put in the White House in 2008 & 2012. It is a distinct possibility that God has abandoned America and left it to the dominate philosophy of eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels and snoring.

24 posted on 03/29/2016 10:06:18 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: EternalVigilance

“How long will conservatives continue to follow and support the treacherous GOP?”

How long will so called “grass roots organizations” like the various Tea Party entities continue to put forward unvetted loony tunes for public office just because they “claim” to be “conservative?”


25 posted on 03/29/2016 10:10:17 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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Yeah, right. "Meetings" with a judicial nominee don't mean much, if anything. The GOP Senators could "meet" with Merrick Garland merely for the purpose of saying to him: "Hey, Judge! We're going to let the next president make this nomination. No offense, pal. Nice suit, by the way."

If they said that 25% of GOP senators were on board with holding full-fledged confirmation hearings, then there might be some cause for concern.
26 posted on 03/29/2016 10:11:57 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: C19fan

revert to type

If someone reverts to type, they return to their usual behaviour after a period of behaving in a different, usually better, way.

“After several weeks without saying a rude word to anyone, he seems to have reverted to type.”


27 posted on 03/29/2016 10:12:35 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: EternalVigilance

Apparently for a long time. There’s scores of “conservatives” on this site that think Cruz is conservative and not a member of the GOPe. So to answer your question, apparently a lot of conservatives are happy to have the GOPe continue to lead them to slaughter.


28 posted on 03/29/2016 10:13:17 AM PDT by usafa92 (Trump 2016 - Destroying the GOPe while Making America Great Again)
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To: C19fan

I did not think that the Senate Republicans would last this long with caving. I thought that the longest that they would have held out would have been thirty seconds.


29 posted on 03/29/2016 10:14:58 AM PDT by sport
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I WISH the Republican Party was as disciplined as the Democrats! You don’t think the Dems would put up with any Dems who defected on any important issues, do you??


30 posted on 03/29/2016 10:15:00 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: EternalVigilance

Probably well into the next millilnumn. They have did it for this long. Why change?


31 posted on 03/29/2016 10:18:16 AM PDT by sport
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To: C19fan

The judiciary committee has made it clear this won’t be taken up before the election. There are some ‘pub senators in moderate states that are saying they will “meet” with the candidate but its for show.


32 posted on 03/29/2016 10:19:48 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: C19fan

SO Cruz with the backing of the GOPe now wants this liberal on the court too?


33 posted on 03/29/2016 10:24:42 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Any senator that gives aid an comfort to this cause must immediately and publicly have their political throats cut.

Any senator that would entertain meetings or hearings of any sort is not worthy to serve as a senator.


34 posted on 03/29/2016 10:25:05 AM PDT by diamond6 ("I'm going to do EXACTLY what I told you I'm going to do!" - Ted Cruz)
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To: 1Old Pro

Nonsense.


35 posted on 03/29/2016 10:25:36 AM PDT by diamond6 ("I'm going to do EXACTLY what I told you I'm going to do!" - Ted Cruz)
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To: C19fan

I would support meetings, very long, long, meetings
and lots of them too...

Yo, we’re working on it, etc, etc, etc.


36 posted on 03/29/2016 10:28:03 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: fwdude

The +25 just have an (R) by their name, that’s all.


37 posted on 03/29/2016 10:30:20 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: C19fan

it’s not if they cave, it’s when. Someone close to DC needs to start marketing tar, feathers and pitchforks.


38 posted on 03/29/2016 10:31:37 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Parley Baer

You are full o it with an SH. Cruz is a very strict constitutionalist. Trump is a lot more wishy washy than Cruz on SCOTUS—what the hell does Crus have to do with this any way?


39 posted on 03/29/2016 10:32:32 AM PDT by RightLady (God Bless the USA)
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To: C19fan

They won’t cave. When they go to a brokered convention and offer up Romney or whoever, they’ll play the it’s only Romney standing between hillary picking the supreme court justice.


40 posted on 03/29/2016 10:40:32 AM PDT by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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