We cannot let political gridlock and dysfunction spread to our Supreme Court.
12:29 PM - 11 Apr 2016
Posted on 04/05/2017 12:24:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
I for one actually believe the “Nuclear Option” is actually playing into the demoRATS hands. Schumer wants the Nuclear Option but does not come out and say it. Why? He is under firm belief the next nomination, while highly speculated to happen in the near future due to the Justices ages, will not happen until a demoRAT is in the WH. With the Nuclear Option firmly in play, then no individual in the Senate could stop a SCOTUS nomination through filibuster. Which is the whole point as dems have been arguing against the filibuster for many years. Schumer isn’t for the Nuclear Option because the dems aren’t in control. However, if they were he would be firmly in favor of it. Since Reagan the dems have been trying to get rid of the filibuster in its entirety. Pubs think they are in control when they have a majority but even now the dems play them like a fiddle at a country ho down.
Garland would have given the Court a solid 5 vote bloc of leftists until Ruth Bader Ginsburg departs from the scene. The only good point was that he was somewhat older than some of the other people Obama could have picked. For once the Republicans did not cave.
That was then. There are still 48 hours left for them to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (i.e. Collins, Murkowski, maybe McCain could vote against enacting the "nuclear" option.)
wtf
Why didn’t the GOP simply allow a vote on Garland and defeat it?
Says a guy who would have gleefully blocked a Republican court nominee under the same circumstances were the shoes on the other feet - a GOP President with a Dem Senate in an election year. They would have done precisely the same thing...Biden had already announced that would be their policy. They are only upset about it because they were expecting to win a solid majority which did not materialize and the Republicans only lost 2 seats even with a horrifically dangerous map for them along with Hillary being elected President...neither of these things materialized.
Dem RATs had no reservations about packing the court with their own and are furious they missed the opportunity to do exactly that.
As Limbaugh mentioned today, it’s pointless to accuse miscreants of being hypocrites.
We need more than 4-4.
We need nine Justices.
And we need a constitutionalist in seat #9. And in whatever seat opens up next.
The current filibuster, nuclear option, situation is a non starter for whether or not to make use of either or both. There can be no doubt that the democrats will reverse themselves to suit any given stand they may have previously taken on any given issue. Of course they would invoke the nuclear rules as needed and cast themselves as saviors of America for doing so. The Republicans should know that they must do what is called for in any situation without giving a second thought to what the democrats want or do not want done. That open SC seat needs to be gotten now, let the chips fall.
Actually seven would be more than enough.
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