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Leahy Predicts GOP Will ‘Lose Control of the Senate’ for Blocking SCOTUS Nomination
Cybercast News Service ^ | February 15, 2016 | 1:07 PM EST | Penny Starr

Posted on 02/16/2016 6:28:57 AM PST by Olog-hai

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted on Sunday that if Republicans block President Barack Obama's nomination to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, voters will give Democrats a majority in the Senate in the next election.

"I think what we ought to do is nominate somebody," Leahy told Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union" show, one day after the death of Scalia at age 79.

"If the Republican leadership refuses to even hold a hearing, I think that is going to guarantee they lose control of the Senate, because I don't think the American people will stand for that. They want us to do our job," Leahy said. "They can see us doing recess after recess, time off all year long." ...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: District of Columbia; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: abortion; brettkavanaugh; leakyleahy; maga; nomination; patrickleahy; scalia; scotus; ussc; vermont
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To: Durbin

“... the Republican base believes they will lose the Senate if they don’t block it.”

EXACTLY! And .. as usual, we have the DemocRATS trying to make it happen their way by LYING ABOUT WHAT THE REPUBS SHOULD DO.

ROTFLOL .. I didn’t think Leahy was still in the Senate.


21 posted on 02/16/2016 6:43:51 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
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To: Olog-hai

I doubt that will happen. The GOP will lose seats but not because of the Scalia issue and not enough to lose control of the Senate.


22 posted on 02/16/2016 6:45:09 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: blackdog
> Obama has a problem. He wants Lynch. If he nominates her and she refuses to indict Hillary despite an FBI calling for one, Lynch cannot possibly have any credibility in upholding the law over politics.

Unless of course Lynch gets a expert to testify that Hillary has multiple personalities and that the one running for president is not the same one who sold state secrets to the highest bidder, setup her own email server, and was responsible for the deaths of many in Benghazi or any of those who crossed her in the past. "You see that was Hitlery not Hillary, your honor"..../s

23 posted on 02/16/2016 6:45:22 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: The Final Harvest

“ROTFLOL .. I didn’t think Leahy was still in the Senate.”

I don’t really care what Democrat is in the Senate. Republicans are in the majority and they control this entire process. We the people put them there. They better not drop the ball on this.


24 posted on 02/16/2016 6:45:40 AM PST by Durbin
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To: Olog-hai

He’s full of crap. Traitor.

If that were the case, I’d trade the traitors in the Senate for keeping a leftist hack off the court. Any day of the week.


25 posted on 02/16/2016 6:47:10 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: Olog-hai

ComDems can pound sand.

And your statement is totally correct.

“the truth has no agenda”

And the ComDems never tell the truth.


26 posted on 02/16/2016 6:47:11 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: blackdog

Simple solution, she resigns.


27 posted on 02/16/2016 6:49:14 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: Olog-hai

So a Democrat is predicting the Republicans will lose the senate if they don’t do what the Democrats want? And this is somehow newsworthy?

If Leahy had said “Republicans have such a strong grip on the Senate that they can likely block Obama’s nominations without fear of losing control of the Senate.” THAT would be newsworthy.

As is, this is a dog-bites-man story. Move on.


28 posted on 02/16/2016 6:55:45 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (Forget church and state. We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: Olog-hai
If the GOPO loses the Senate over it, it would be worth it.

No contest.

29 posted on 02/16/2016 6:56:00 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Olog-hai

He could be right, under this scenario.

Obama nominates a black female. The Senate refuses to move the nomination ahead. She becomes the latest “War On Women, Republicans are Racist!” poster child, which spurs the Obama coalition to turn out and vote in large numbers once again.


30 posted on 02/16/2016 6:56:34 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Why does he think that the GOP is going to “lose” the Senate?

This will help the GOP bigtime.


31 posted on 02/16/2016 6:57:12 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Olog-hai
How do we get Leaky to lose his job? 41 years is way too long.

Ceding Vermont to Canada is about the only way I can think of.


32 posted on 02/16/2016 6:57:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Leahy is sooo concerned about Republicans. Let’s assume there is a risk. Would we want a progressive left court or a conservative Constitutional Court as a republican Senate? I would go for a conservative Court now and then in two years turn our attention back to the Senate.


33 posted on 02/16/2016 6:58:28 AM PST by orinoco (Orinoco)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They can hardly scream racism WE have a black court justice!!!!


34 posted on 02/16/2016 7:00:51 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Olog-hai

The never seems to be a shortage of Democrats trying to help Republicans win elections.


35 posted on 02/16/2016 7:01:35 AM PST by Poison Pill
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To: blackdog

VERY, VERY GOOD POINT!!!!


36 posted on 02/16/2016 7:02:00 AM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: DoodleDawg

Rubio isn’t running again....that’s one


37 posted on 02/16/2016 7:02:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Olog-hai

Leaky Leahy.


38 posted on 02/16/2016 7:05:13 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Olog-hai

Patrick Leahy, is he STILL in the Senate???

Oh right, he comes from Vermont, where all the people are presumably of below-normal intelligence...


39 posted on 02/16/2016 7:06:15 AM PST by Redbob (#BlackCoffeeMatters)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, well then...

Since Senator Leahy unquestionably has the GOP’s best interests at heart, then I suppose we should confirm Obama’s nominee right now, even before the nomination.

Just pass a bill saying, “Since Democrats are the real racists, and diversity is our strength, and since we are a little tougher than the Democrats (but never mean or scary), we hereby consent to the appointment of whomever, or whatever, President Obama nominates to the Supreme Court”.

(I think losing control of the Senate is a near certainty, whatever they do, and that a blocked nominee will be confirmed by the new Senate on January 3, 2017, but it is possible that I’m wrong).


40 posted on 02/16/2016 7:07:42 AM PST by Jim Noble (I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone, and I won't question what or when or why when I'm gon)
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