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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But then they would look mean. Can't have that.
And I predict that leahy will not die a death of “natural causes” anytime soon.
The Republicans will lose the Senate, and conceivably the House, for turning their backs on the people who gave them majorities two years ago.
Caving to Obama and the DIMS on a SCOTUS nominee will exacerbate the magnitude of the loss.
“If Scalia is replaced by a liberal, whether we control the Senate or not is irrelevant.”
Exactly why they better not drop the ball on this one.
But of course, there is no other scenario.
Opposing whomever Obama nominates will involve being mean, being scary, being anti-woman, or being racist, perhaps all four.
This the Senate GOP will never do. They lack the imagination, or the confident authority, to prevent what is about to happen.
Maybe. The seats I see the GOP definitely losing are Kirk in Illinois and Johnson in Wisconsin. Portman, Toomey, and Ayotte are at risk. The Republicans should have picked up Nevada but then Sandoval declined to run. Now I think the Democrats have a better than even chance of keeping it.
We lose the country .. guaranteed .. if the GOP doesn’t block it. It’s a fair trade if it must be.
Ayotte - GONE
Kirk - GONE
Toomey - GONE
Rubio - replaced by a Democrat
That’s 50-50, and that’s the best case scenario.
Ayotte is gone.
Six years pretending to be a kindergarten teacher are enough.
The talk about Lynch is a red squirrel. Get everyone looking the wrong way and make the eventual nominee much more palatable.
Bottom Line, Scalia’s death is a major loss to conservatism and now threatens the foundation of American Freedom.
Mitch McConnell needs to forcefully pronounce that he will not bring a nomination to the floor, period, end of debate.
The GOP needs to make this a referendum on so much that Scalia has done to protect our Freedoms, starting with preserving the 2nd amendment and on.
This messaging will ensure a major voter turnout, unlike we have seen in decades. People will vote to support these freedoms and the GOP candidate will win in a landslide.
At every turn the Libs will be crying, at every turn the GOP needs to say we trust the American voter more than Obama.
Either the GOP caves, or they use the nominee/victim to whip up the Obama voter coalition. Either way it works for him.
The GOP may NOT cave, IF their donors are frightened enough by the thought of Citizens United being overturned.
Well we all know Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has our best interest at heart.../s
No, no hearings.
If a nominee makes it to the floor there’s too much of a chance that enough GOPe moderates will vote the nominee onto the bench.
The new Democrat Senate will confirm whoever the nominee is between January 3, 2017 and Inauguration Day.
Blocking it is still a good deed, but the criticism that “it will cause the loss of the Senate” may well be valid.
The GOP won’t lose the majority, they will increase it if this election is a referendum on American Freedoms. Every Dem gunowner will vote GOP if this is framed correctly.
ANd, the turnout from evangelicals will be HUGE as one more lib on the court will kill religious freedoms and everything else evangelicals hold dear.
That's three then. And the GOP has only 54 seats.
But personally, I have no faith in a GOP “majority†that rubber-stamps a $4.1 trillion “budget†among other collusions.
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