Posted on 02/13/2016 7:57:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ust five minutes after the San Antonio Express-News broke news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, Conn Caroll, communications director for Utah Republican Mike Lee, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said this on Twitter: "What is less than zero? The chances of Obama successfully appointing a Supreme Court Justice to replace Scalia?"
Just 30 minutes later, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz chimed in to say the same. "Justice Scalia was an American hero. We owe it to him, & the Nation, for the Senate to ensure that the next President names his replacement," he said on Twitter.
National Review writer Charles C.W. Cooke, like other conservative pundits, followed suit with a similar statement. "Senate must simply refuse to appoint anybody. Would be outrageous to replace a giant like Scalia with a minnow like Sotomayor."
Scalia's death was an incredible shock. This conservative reaction is not.
The last Supreme Court Justice to die in office was William Rehnquist, who passed away on Sept. 3, 2005. By the end of the month, President George W. Bush had picked his replacement--John Roberts of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, originally named to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's seat--and the Senate had confirmed it....
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With McCain, Graham and the rest of the RINO's patting each other on the back, smiling proudly and saying whatever far-left minority (probably homosexual) freakshow Obama nominated to the court is a "brilliant jurist" and will be a "great addition to the court."
I would like to think the Republicans will hold firm, but who are we kidding? Just look at the debt negotiations last month where they gave Obama the farm and more. The first time the New York Times or the Washington Post has an editorial calling them racists for not giving Obama's nominee a swift confirmation they will be panting and falling all over themselves to confirm that individual.
You know the Supreme Court is a fraud when people have to worry about which party gets to nominate the next justice. It’s time to shut that sewer down.
I wish my short term memory were as good as my long term memory...
A Freeper recently observed that certain election-related events we almost a foregone conclusion, unless a sudden unforeseen event happened in the next month or two. A Black Swan, so to speak.
Do any other Freepers remember who that Freeper is?
We are staring a real live Black Swan in the beak.
And the UnConstitutional American Muslim African is wasting no time in threatening additional UnConstitutional crimes.
Time for a discussion...
The only crisis is in some liberal writer’s diaper.
We’re in the middle of a Constitutional Crisis.
One that is going to be aggravated by the death of Scalia.
And I can tell you that the citizens who reject incumbent elected criminals of all parties will redouble their efforts to after the GOPe who still haven't gotten the message.
Our lists are certain to overlap...
Awwww...
I feel so sorry for Hussein.
Every time he gets slapped down I feel so bad! I feel so bad for the Jarrrett and the First Wookie, too!
I only hope they do!!!
We should only fear the GOP going along with it.
They want to lose the senate
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