Democrats Display Supreme Hypocrisy About Replacing Justice Scalia

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 2/16/2016 | Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

Supreme Court: “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,

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The cool thing about having no moral values and no accountability to your Creator is that you can lie without a guilty conscience. Whatever you can get away with is good to you. Or so it seems to be the case when I observe the liberals (progressives in the sense that they are on that infamous trip in a handbasket).

[dennisw]

Payback is a beeeech ....... Just two years ago Harry Reid went for the nuclear option eliminated the Filibuster rule of 60-40 votes required to override one so he could pack the super-important DC Circuit Court with extreme leftist Obama nominees that CUCK Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans had been blocking
______
______

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/harry-reid-nuclear-option-senate
NUCLEAR OPTION TRIGGERED: Dems Make Historic Change To Filibuster Rules

BySahil Kapur
PublishedNovember 21, 2013, 12:35 PM EST 40857 views

After years of threats and warnings, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and his Democratic majority on Thursday executed the "nuclear option" to eliminate the filibuster for executive branch and judicial nominees, except for the Supreme Court.

Fifty-two Democrats voted to scrap the filibuster rule after Republicans again blocked cloture on the nomination of Patricia Millett to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democratic Sens. Carl Levin (MI), Joe Manchin (WV) and Mark Pryor (AR) voted with Republicans to uphold the filibuster and avoid the rules change.

"Republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent President Obama from appointing his executive team or confirming judges," Reid said on the Senate floor. "We're burning wasted hours and wasted days between filibusters. I could say instead we're burning wasted days and wasted weeks between filibusters. ... It's time to change. It's time to change the Senate before this institution becomes obsolete."

Reid invoked the swath of GOP filibusters of cabinet, sub-cabinet and judicial nominees, from Chuck Hagel and Mel Watt to executive positions and Obama's three nominees to the powerful D.C. Circuit court -- Millett, Nina Pillard and Robert Wilkins.

"Is the Senate working now? Can anyone say the Senate is working now?" the majority leader said before the vote. "I don't think so."

The "Reid Rule," as supporters are calling it, does not affect the minority party's ability to filibuster Supreme Court nominees or legislation.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fumed at Reid's decision, accusing him of trying to change the subject from Obamacare and "cook up some fake fight over judges." He argued that "by any objective standard, Senate Republicans have been very, very fair to this president" when it comes to letting him appoint his nominees.

"I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: you'll regret this," McConnell said. "And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think."

(lol lol lol lol lol....hahhahahahahahahhaha)

[Smokin' Joe]

Reid has apparently forgotten his own role in trying to do just that a decade ago,

But...but...It's okay when they do it! (just ask them).

[BigEdLB]

Reid is proof of a mad scientist mixing human and worm DNA.

[Smokin' Joe]

"I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: you'll regret this," McConnell said. "And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think."

McConnell needs to be reminded of that statement. It's time for the chickens to go home to roost. (Everybody send dingy Harry a rubber band!)

[alloysteel]

“Fair and timely hearing”, then reject them out of hand. Remember the difficulty Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 43 had even getting a candidate to be CONSIDERED by Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy?

Payback time.

Remember Robert Bork, and the nearly year and a half before finally seating Anthony Kennedy. After Lewis Powell, a so-called “moderate”, announced his retirement on June 26, 1987, Senate Democrats had asked liberal leaders to form a “solid phalanx” to oppose an “ideological extremist” to replace Powell. Democrats warned Reagan there would be a fight over the nomination if Bork were to be the nominee. And remember Joe Biden’s fingerprints all over that report that called up so many scurrilous and spurious misrepresentations of Bork’s past judicial decisions.

Justice Scalia did not get to announce his “retirement”.

[Slings and Arrows]

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
—David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.

[exDemMom]

Like, duh, Democrats are hypocrites.

You can always tell a Democrats modus operandi—it’s whatever they accuse Republicans of doing.

[ryan71]

This is a waste of time. The question is, what will Republicans do?

[ripley]

“Democrats Display Supreme Hipocrisy...”

When did they ever not display a double standard?

They are all the bullies that ever existed rolled up into an obnoxious group of people whose loyalties lie outside of the borders of the United States.

(Scu*bags one and all.)

IMHO

[sickoflibs]

Being lectured by Obama and Dems on the original intent of the constitution is just nauseating.

Did you know that it says that the Senate run by opposing party must have hearings and a vote on the Obama nominee??
Thar Scalia would demand it if he was here.

Even though as a Senator Obama voted to deny Bushes SCOTUS nominee a vote.

Yet no-one in GOP countering it effectively.