Posted on 08/12/2014 6:12:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Only two possibilities, my friends. One: He’s talking out of his ass here, trying to scare the shinola out of well-heeled liberals in order to make them reach for their wallets before the midterms. (See also “impeachment.”) Two: The fix is in.
Over/under on when Ginsburg calls it quits is summer 2015.
“What’s preventing us from getting things done right now is you’ve got a faction within the Republican Party that thinks solely in terms of their own ideological purposes and solely in terms of how do they hang on to power. And that’s a problem,” Mr. Obama said at the Tisbury, Mass., home of Roger H. Brown, president of the Berklee College of Music.
“And that’s why I need a Democratic Senate. Not to mention the fact that we’re going to have Supreme Court appointments.”
You can, if you like, take that as an early hint that Reid intends to nuke the rest of the filibuster if another Court vacancy opens up. Right now, the filibuster still exists for Supreme Court nominees, albeit not for lower-court nominations; in theory, if Ginsburg quit tomorrow, the GOP would need only 41 votes to block her successor — unless Reid suddenly changes the rules once again, that is. Even if, against all odds, Democrats retained control of the Senate, no one thinks they’ll be anywhere near 60 seats next year. And no one seriously believes that Mitch McConnell, as majority leader, would block an Obama nominee from an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor. Which is to say, the only reason having an absolute Democratic majority might matter to O is if Reid’s already planning to get rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments too and let Dems confirm the nominee with 51 votes.
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Must be... the search is on for WHO would be WORSE than Ginsburg..
Maybe... Noam Chomsky or Richard Dawkins..
another major reason to win the Senate !
Name some.... I don’t think we have anyone that matches the the hatred Bill Ayers or Holder have for this country.
Really, give me an example or two.
Warren was also the nominee for Vice President of the Republican Party in 1948
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren
“How do you feel about Bill Ayers or Eric Holder being on the Supreme Court for the next 40 years?”
shrillary would be a slam dunk.
What next? A wise transsexual?
Jarrett said:” After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget.
The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve.
There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time.
No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.” sodahead link -canopfor on August 12, 2014 at 5:33 PM
obama is plainly stating he’s going to murder off the old white guys on the court.
There are enough Republicans in the Senate to stop either of these guys. If we can’t trust them to stop people like this what good is electing Republicans?
He doesn’t need a D Senate. He has McCain, Graham et al who will vote to put anything left-wing on the Court.
Yeah, but there are plenty of republicrats who would vote to confirm shrillary.
“So the question is, which one of them is he planning to knock off?”
You hit the nail on the head...HARD!
I really do think that the SC does not want an 0bama replacement no matter how liberal they may be.
They know what a PlSS POOR PERSON he is!
So, get your check books out, the Justices need to know how much you are willing to pay for justice.
So what? Do elections have consequences? It’s not obvious to me.
Give me one today...
Of course elections have consequences. That’s why we’re in such a mess now.
Well, not good at all if you are talking about electing RINOs.
It was your comment... you can't go into the past and pull someone up who was appointed to the court decades ago - AND is dead...
Also, Obama's campaign started in Bill Ayer's living room - and Ayers wrote Obama's book that helped him get elected by the press. When I said Holder or Ayeys - both are possible. Name a Republican (alive in our time - who's mildly possible) that would be anywhere near as bad as what dems would try to get on the court...
Obama and Reid will try to pack the court like FDR tried to do. Just add 2 more liberal justices.
You are goading me into defend Ayers. So typical. Manipulative, dishonest. The game doesn’t work with me or anyone else reading this exchange.
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