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.
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Took em all of 48 hours to cave. Get ready for racist leftist Loretta Lynch to be confirmed to replace conservative Antonin Scalia within the next two months, maybe sooner. Once again, the spineless, worthless republicans have sold the country down the tubes. We’re finished as nation for the next 50 years.
It depends. Where is my free Obamaphone, free healthcare, free college, and NINJA (no income no job) mortgage?
Like the wall built to keep out illegal immigrants. GOPE folds like a cheap McConnell
The GOP-e might tuck tail? Again?
This why we don’t want their guy.
Go Trump!
cruz better break out his filibuster sweatsuit and dr seuss books.
Took em 3 days, that’s a record, didnt expect them to last that long before they caved like p*ssies..yeah I think in this instance that word is appropriate
Excuse me while I clutch my Pearls and have an attack of the Vapors.
I won’t say I told you so, but I told you so. LOL
I called it days ago, I knew they would cave..they always do, just call Republicans racist and the party of “NO” which is what the media has been doing these last few days and the GOP runs off with their tails between their legs saying “Please Obama, whatever we can do to help” Obama will nominate a Muslim, he will do it and the GOP with confirm him
It's pretty simple. Trump is getting more support than Cruz for the same reasons that more people listen to Lady Gaga than Rachmaninoff and more people will watch the Star Wars movie than 13 Hours.
1) Poor taste;
2) Limited education;
3) Marginal intellect;
Hank
They were not going vote until they decided to vote for it.
Just like we got to keep our doctors.
Tell me again why they all don’t need to go and why putting someone like the Donald in there is the wrong thing to do.
A two card monte game..
While I dont have high expecations for the Senate GOP, they have to atbleast act like theybare open to a hearing if “the candidate is right”. This way 0bama cant get ahead of the game and start calling them obstructionists.
What type of nominee would put the R’s that are up for re-election in a jam? Probably a liberal loonie type.
What nominee would not? Probably a less liberal loonie type.
Am I correct?
I don't think there's any change in what they actually plan to do, though.
Spoken like the spineless worms that Tillis, and the rest of the GOPe, are.
F*** the GOP. They’ll never, ever, EVER, get one thin dime from my wallet ever again. I’ve had it.
This will be the end of the GOP. millions will stay home in November...and forever after.
You idiots in DC had BETTER listen: NO Obama replacement for Scalia, or your party (NOT “our party”) will be unceremoniously tossed on to History’s garbage heap.
McConnell: grow a pair for once and do what Harry Reid would do if he was in your position: stonewall.
Sorry Senator Grassley but the odds of Obama giving us a Roy Moore are next to zero. But it would be nice to have that sort of optimism.
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