Posted on 02/14/2016 6:22:44 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Before the GOP debate in Greenville, S.C. Saturday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham said the only way President Obama could get a Supreme Court nominee approved by the Senate would be to put forward a consensus choice. “No one will be appointed who isn’t a consensus choice," Graham said. "Now can the president find someone who 90 percent of us will agree upon? Maybe someone like Orrin Hatch." Graham, who threw his support behind Jeb Bush days after ending his own presidential bid, framed the question of Scalia's replacement around the issue of electability, asserting that the anti-establishment candidates who have had the most success early on in the GOP nomination fight aren't likely to yield a justice in the mold of Scalia. “Donald Trump’s not a conservative, so I don’t trust him to pick a judge," Graham said. "Everybody else on stage would pick somebody in the same mold, I think. Everybody other than Donald Trump I would have confidence would pick a Supreme Court justice nominee that I would vote for. Here’s the problem: I don’t think Ted Cruz or Donald Trump can win an election. I don’t think Ted Cruz has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting 270 electoral votes. “If we lose the election, Hillary Clinton’s going to pick somebody who I wouldn’t pick. I’m telling every conservative now: don’t expect to lose the election and still get your way.â€
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Sen Graham will harrumph in front of the cameras and then vote yes to any nominee, regardless.
“Haven’t they all been consensus picks by the very definition of advise and consent?”
In Linda’s world, consensus means snuggling up closely with Obama.
Obama isn’t interested in “consensus”. He will pick a hardcore leftist. Graham will rationalize that choice as “consensus”. Another 15 GOP senators will agree and the nominee will be confirmed.
This will elect Trump.
Every time Linda Graham speaks, makes me want to go out into the garage and chew a handful of roofing nails.
Good grief...consensus? South Carolinans...please stop voting for this guy. For the sake of our republic...stop voting for him.
Did you SEE that interview with Miss Lindsey last night? He started ticking of all the SCOTUS Justices that he’d voted for: Sotomayor, Kagan, etc. And he was PROUD of it! The man — and I use that term loosely — has mush for brains.
Graham = Closet Fagit = Bitter Leftist
Good God Graham. Retire and go away!!!
Absolutely correct without a doubt.
"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?'"
"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors...I mean it."
-- Margaret Thatcher
Obama wants badly to nominate another left-wing radical to the Court. And he has plenty in the bullpen. But he knows that if he does, it will galvanize conservative support against the nominee. In an election year, with 1/3 of the Senate seats up and the groundswell of conservative discontent manifest in people like Trump and Cruz, Republican senators would not likely tempt fate and approve a raving liberal.
But there's no way a dyed-in-the-wool communist like obammy is going to nominate a conservative. I don't think he'd even know where to find one, let alone speak the same language.
He has to select someone he thinks will appease the Senate and still keep his pinko street creds intact.
So look for him to pick a Manchurian candidate, a John Roberts stealth liberal rather than a Ruth Bader Ginsburg flag-waving loon. He'll be able to sell that candidate to people like Graham and Hatch, and of course the Democrats will march in lockstep with whatever buffoon he picks. So it will fall to Chuck Grassley, the Chairman, and Ted Cruz to stop Frankenstein in his tracks.
With any guts -- and Grassley has plenty -- he'll send a clear message to the White House: nominate an enemy of the Constitution and a full confirmation vote will never see the light of day.
And the looming threat of another traitor on the Supreme Court will gel conservative support like never before in the general election in November. So either barack is going to have to select someone palatable enough to get confirmed before then, or the Left faces their most crushing defeat since Reagan.
That's my two cents.
That treasonous bastard, we need people like him out of our government
Maybe Loveable Lindsey has himself in mind!
SC people aren’t too “bright”: They had a reasonable choice in Lee Bright, but they said, “Give us Lindsey again”.
Lindsey et al aren’t really cowards: they are brave liberals, but our little Republican primary voters are too uninformed to know.
Go stick your face in front of Harry Reid’s exercise machine, Goober.
“It’s already begun!”
Yep! Less than a day has passed and Linda is signaling that he and the other members of the Uniparty are going to give Obama’s handlers what they want. This will lead to the removal of the 2A, which is the only thing blocking their goals of the destruction of the United States.
Frankly I don’t think Obammie cares about the Senate he is outa there and he WILL try to PUSH his radical through!!!! My HUGE WORRY is
GINSBERG will resign also, and leave 2 seats for this bastard to fill!!!!
I recall how Orin Hatch worked with Slick Willie to come up with an acceptable nominee, and that nominee was: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Indeed, lets also not forget the historical context. In 1993, then-President Clinton reached out to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a leading senator on the Judiciary Committee, even though Republicans were in the minority. Clinton solicited suggested nominees for a Supreme Court vacancy, and Hatch recommended Ginsburg. Clinton agreed and Ginsburg sailed through.
It's amazing Ginsburg is even on the bench
And I've heard Hatch brag about how he worked with Slick to come up with that "good" nominee. And I always remembered that, and when upon hearing Mark Levin's 2012 endorsement for Hatch's reelection, that's when I wrote Levin off my list as anyone to listen to for candidate recommendations.
With folks like Hatch and Graham on the Judiciary Committee... Maybe Republicans should refuse to even give a committee hearing to an Obama nominee, if that can be done for almost a full year.
Of course they can refuse, Harry Reid changed the rules and NOW HE has to live with them !!!!!
Congress can change the number of justices on the Supreme Court without a Constitutional amendment. They did it several times in the 1800’s. Maybe it’s time they at least doubled the Court to 18. With more members, it wouldn’t be so dependent on one member to tip it this way or that.
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