You weren't actually believing they wouldn't give Obama everything he wants as usual did you?
Posted on 02/16/2016 2:00:42 PM PST by Bratch
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is leaving open the possibility of holding a hearing for President Barack Obama's choice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, amid signs of uncertainty about how Republicans would treat a nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said he backs Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's view that Obama's successor should make the nomination of a lifetime appointment. But Grassley didn't rule out holding confirmation hearings and a vote by his panel on an Obama selection.
"I would wait until the nominee is made before I would make any decision," Grassley said Tuesday in a conference call with Iowa radio reporters. "In other words, take it a step at a time."
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Probably. But they should not. They need to invoke the name of that hallowed icon of the democrat party: Ted Kennedy. He politicized the appointment process with Robert Bork’s nomination.
We should just play by his rules.
And so there goes the first step towards giving up in the senate.
Disgusting!
Yup...roll over and give Obama what he wants.
Why did we vote for a Republican Senate when it made no difference?
Harry Reid would have screwed us over but at least he’s honest about it.
Republicans have no loyalty to their voters and they have the chutzpah to tell us Trump is just as bad as them!
In other words -
“WE CAVE”
Hold hearings. Lot’s of them. For months and months and months...
Well that didn’t take long.
Yup. The surrender has already begun.
Which is the reason for so much GOP voter frustration and the rise of the Great Phony, Trump.
You weren't actually believing they wouldn't give Obama everything he wants as usual did you?
GrrrrASSley trying to sound reasonable?
The scumbag who filibustered the Alito nomination is holding a press conference right now, threatening republicans against any delay in confirming his Marxist pick.
Republicans are afraid of how the media will characterize them.
They don’t want to offend any one.
That’s why people like Trump - he really rubs some people the wrong way.
We have pussies in the GOP establishment when we should have lions.
WOW! The Republicans lasted ONE WHOLE DAY!
That’s a day longer than I expected them to last!
I could already hear the sound of caving last Sunday.
I’m ok with hearings actually, so long as the candidate is voted down in committee and doesn’t reach a floor vote.
That looks more like Trump
Of course!
They like being treated like prostitutes, without even being paid for their services.
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