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GOP showing signs of backing down from vow to block Obama SCOTUS pick
The Washington Times ^ | 02/16/16 | Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan

Posted on 02/16/2016 7:18:26 PM PST by Enlightened1

SenateJudiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, didn't rule out 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," Mr. Grassley said Tuesday in a conference call with Iowa radio reporters. "In other words, take it a step at a time."

Asked whether he thought the controversy over filling the court vacancy might endanger his re-election chances this fall, Mr. Grassley said, "I think I have a responsibility to perform, and I can't worry about the election. I've got to do my job as a senator, whatever it is. And there will be a lot of tough votes between now and the next election."

His comments appeared to be a softening from a statement shortly after Justice Scalia's death, when Mr. Grassley said it was "standard practice" not to nominate or confirm candidates for the Supreme Court in an election year.

"It only makes sense that we defer to the American people who will elect a new president to select the next Supreme Court Justice," Mr. Grassley said in a statement Saturday.

Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican, voiced caution about blocking any Obama nominee automatically.

"I think we fall into the trap if [we] just simply say, sight unseen, we fall into the trap of being obstructionists," Mr. Tillis said on Tyler Cralle's radio show.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: butterdezillion

I agree with that!


161 posted on 02/17/2016 9:53:02 AM PST by SuzyQue
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To: SuzyQue

Wow, sorry about your senators.


Meee tooo!!!


162 posted on 02/17/2016 10:12:13 AM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Enlightened1

Gee, wonder what made the GOPe leadership reveal this so quickly?

Maybe the twitter shots of VJ gift wrapped Crisco cans with cards reading,

“Smile and bend over, here it comes again, kiss, kiss, VJ”


163 posted on 02/17/2016 10:25:21 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: xzins

I’d really like to believe your read on it is correct. But history tells us that Republican leadership only plays that game against conservatives.


164 posted on 02/17/2016 11:03:11 AM PST by Eroteme
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To: Eroteme

When they want to fight, they fight.

We need to light a fire under them on this one, because they have nothing to lose.


165 posted on 02/17/2016 11:13:01 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Enlightened1

Are you surprised?


166 posted on 02/17/2016 12:22:17 PM PST by redgolum
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To: dware

Think about it. If Obama’s pick is confirmed, Trump will be thrown out because of legal challenges to the election. Win for the GOP and Hillary


167 posted on 02/17/2016 12:27:58 PM PST by redgolum
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
This will be a bit complex for a Trump supporter to take in. But on the off chance you're educable, I'll give it a try.

It is possible for two people so say approximately the same thing in two different situations, and for one of them to be right while the other is wrong. For example, Pelosi was wrong to call Tea Partiers vulgarians. But I am correct in calling Trump supporters fools and dullards.

As for your claim that crowd size is an indication of anything other than the ability to attract some type of mob, I present the following. Now to the simple Trumpanzee, I will be seen as comparing Trump to Hitler....which is of course wrong. First, Trump isn't advocating genocide. And second, Hitler was probably quite a bit smarter. But I shall present the illustration nonetheless.

Warmest Personal Regareds, Hank

Wow, you stun me with your brilliance. NOT. But at least you are the rare Cruzer with some semblance of a sense of humor ( I mean that last clever bit about Trump not as smart as Adolf, for a Cruzer it is almost passable ).

Sure, you're theory could be valid, I mean that everyone is crazy and dumb except for you. It is most likely wrong though.

You know that the point of that post wasn't really about crowd size, there would be no point in me doing that because we already know that Trump is packing them in during the primary campaign and it is similar only to the post-convention general campaign crowds of previous nominees, and despite our looking we find nothing from the others like Bush or Cruz that can compare. So making that point is downright overkill.

No, the point is that the people in these crowds, men and women, young and old, kids, students, vets are once again uniting voluntarily, peacefully and orderly, and most importantly - effectively. They are the wind at the candidate's back, they are the force that comprises his momentum.

Your mistaken theory assigns them a lack of integrity, not to mention disparaging condescension, but my theory is that they simply spotted a path to victory, for once. They are being perfectly logical and sane. They are showing up voluntarily crawling over broken glass given the weather and are not peer-pressured into a Nuremberg rally.

It goes without saying that you yourself would be crowing loudly if such crowds attended Cruz, and if it were for Bush the (R)epublicrats and media would declare the election already over.

You won't understand this ( sorry, I have to return the insult, it's in my genes ) but when you build your castle or house, the first step is bringing in the tractors and bulldozers, or in this case the wrecking ball, before you get to pick out the drapes and pretty flower pots.

Furthermore, because I believe you are intelligent it is amazing that certain facts either escape you or you have purposely ignored them. Those facts are that this battlefield is almost insurmountable, the landmines include a devastating partisan media that snipes us at will through political correctness. This unlikely bulldozer has figured a way to neutralize that weapon and it is the only reason that your guy is even still standing today. They destroyed the potentially great George Allen in a microsecond and Cruz was also slated for a toetag whether you want to believe it or not.

You and I are definitely on the same "conservative" team ( sans any globalist internationalist anti-Americanism ) because 16 years ago I was die-hard Alan Keyes and no-one could tell me anything, especially the fact that the electorate would never vote for him.

I'll stop here, and leave something for you to look at ...



168 posted on 02/17/2016 2:00:07 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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To: JME_FAN
Will somebody tell me what is going on? Didn't senator harry reid and then senator obama block president george bush's judge nominees? Why are our guys not doing the same?

The track record of our (R)epublicrat idjits is worse than you remember. Here is what they did for the last four nominees from Clinton and Dumbo ...

No payback was offered for the unbelievable cases of ideological obstruction against Bork, Ginsberg and Thomas.

And when we actually get judges past the Senate our batting averages just plain old suck ...

Eisenhower ... 1 for 4 ... .250 ... Warren, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart
Nixon ........ 1 for 4 ... .250 ... Burger, Blackmum, Powell, Rehnquist 
Ford ......... 0 for 1 ... .000 ... Stevens 
Reagan ....... 1 for 3 ... .333 ... O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy 
Bush41 ....... 1 for 2 ... .500 ... Souter, Thomas 
Bush43 ....... 1 for 2 ... .500 ... Roberts, Alito

That's 5 reliable conservatives out of our last 16. We should be mad as hell right now.

169 posted on 02/17/2016 2:13:19 PM PST by Democratic-Republican
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To: SuzyQue

McConnell would say the same exact thing while exclaiming that Tea Party Conservatives need to be ‘punched in the nose’ and made to ‘sit down and shut up’ when we attempted to do as you suggested.

But then perhaps you are just another example of normalcy bias.


170 posted on 02/17/2016 3:39:37 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR

So, what’s your plan, Invar?


171 posted on 02/17/2016 6:17:54 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: SuzyQue

Survive.


172 posted on 02/17/2016 10:57:12 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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