Posted on 02/16/2016 3:08:10 PM PST by Kaslin
Supreme Court: Senate Democrats demanding that Republicans let President Obama pick a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia appear to be counting on the public's short attention span. But there's no statute of limitations on rank hypocrisy.
"The Senate's constitutional duty to give a fair and timely hearing and a floor vote to the president's Supreme Court nominees has remained inviolable." That was Sen. Harry Reid in a Washington Post op-ed this week condemning any effort by the GOP to block President Obama from naming a successor to conservative stalwart Scalia.
He went on to write that "the consequences of blocking any nominee, regardless of merits, would hang over their heads for the rest of their careers."
Reid has apparently forgotten his own role in trying to do just that a decade ago, when he joined a 2006 filibuster attempt by Senate Democrats to block Samuel Alito, President George W. Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, saying it was "an opportunity for people to express their opinion as to what a bad choice it was."
Alito had the votes to win confirmation, but 24 Democrats - including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and then-freshman Sen. Barack Obama - nevertheless tried to keep him off the bench. The filibuster attempt failed, but the fact that Democrats tried it all calls the lie to Reid's claim.
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Okay, well thinks anyway. “:^)
Yep, they play to win....at any cost.
I think they're famous for saying something like "the ends justify the means?
COSBY all DEMONcrats!
Democrats Display Supreme Hypocrisy
There fixed it!
“If Barry steps up with his recess appointment while the R’s are sitting on their thumbs, we should never forget it. “
The gutless RINOs in the Senate would love this to happen. They wouldn’t have to fight anything or stand on principle. They could just resort to whining and harrumphing about what Barry did and issue empty threats.
That ship just left the harbor. McConnell already caved.
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