Posted on 02/17/2016 3:29:51 AM PST by detective
Will Senate Republicans hold firm to a vow by Sen. Mitch McConnell to block any consideration of a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia until President Obama leaves office?
The GOP is showing signs of division on the issue.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa - chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which holds the hearings for Supreme Court nominees - told Radio Iowa Tuesday he isn't ready to make that commitment.
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Those up for reelection will be the squishy ones.
Hold hearings, ask questions which will disqualify them from consideration, vote “NO” on them, kick them to the curb, repeat and rinse.
See, we are doing our job.
no and lead a Fillibuster of Alito
That’s a record. They actually had a spine for one whole day.
Better idea: DON’T hold hearings, tell that simpering sodomite in the White Hut to pound sand, and carry on with the legitimate business of the Senate.
I am gonna be all over my two Senators from now till doomsday about NOT voting for any Obama USSC replacement, period.
Which is the way it should be. Let the process go forward because we know Obama will not nominate anyone close to considerable when it comes to a Constitutionalist.
IMO, when they came out on that stage and said he should not be allowed to even present someone or have hearings, they just pulled the triggers on both barrels right into their feet. Don’t stand there and blabber all about supporting strict Constitutionalism and in the next breath subverting it as a sure sign you will do it only when convenient.
This is what those people are telling their adversaries who will in turn use their hypocrisy against them and have weight for their argument.
Yeah, I was kinda wondering what took ‘em so long.
Bitch has already passed out the K-Y Jelly.
The Dims see this as an opportunity to regain control of the Senate because they will yet again, with the media's help, be able to successfully depict the GOP as do nothing obstructionists placing party over country. They will play this for everything its worth and very likely be successful. If the GOP doesn't retain control of the Senate it really doesn't matter who replaces Scalia because as he proves these 80 year old justices are not going to last forever and there are going to be several vacancies in the next few years. The Dims are betting the GOP will take themselves out of the game by losing the the Senate over a single nominee.
Obama wants Lynch but he wont nominate her the first time around instead he will chose someone like Sri Srinivasan who sits on the DC and was approved 97-0 just a couple of years ago. How can Cruz and every other Republican Senator suddenly claim he is unqualified and vote him down. It may play well here but its not going to play well in those 8 states that Obama carried, virtually assuring the GOP loses the Senate and any chance to stop the Libs from packing the Court in the next few years with Liberal judges that will be there for at least 2 generations.
So next January, Obama will nominate Lynch and Chuckie Schumer, your new majority leader, will will take up the nomination in the next Congress and she's Scalia’s replacement irregardless of who is elected president.
McConnell will ‘get paid’. They are just dickering over how much he will sell out for.
“Hold hearings, ask questions which will disqualify them from consideration, vote “NO†on them, kick them to the curb, repeat and rinse.”
They know themselves all too well, that they are easily tempted. They know that once the democrats start presenting potential replacements, that sooner, or maybe later, one of the liberal activist judges will have a larger vocabulary than them, using big words they do not understand, a tear inducing ‘victim’ story, a long long list of accomplishments completely unrelated to constitutional law, but the clincher will be when that nominee pulls out a sparkling pretty little bag covered in shiny things, dangles it before the republican committee members and says “If you approve me, I’ll allow you put your testicles in this pretty little bag so that I can keep them safe, and protect them for you! And if you’ve already lost your testicles, you can just put a couple marbles in here and we’ll pretend! Your secret will be safe with me!” Once those republicans quit drooling and patting each other on the back for success at being so wise as to keep their testicles safe with an actual Supreme Court Justice, one of them will wake up and exclaim “Darn it boys! We were duped again! We fell for the shiny little sparkly bag trick again! And now if we say anything, our testicles will get thrown into the garbage disposal, or worse, be used as play things for the cats!” Yes, they know better than to allow themselves to be tempted, but it won’t last long.
“That’s a record. They actually had a spine for one whole day.”
And they wonder why the base hates them.
This is the same Mitch McConnell the anti-establishment Trump backed in 2012 against Bevin.
McConnell has been foolish from the beginning. He makes stupid statements like the one he made after Obama was first elected “our job is to make Obama a one-term president”, Just stupid. It gave liberals fodder for the past 7 plus years, which they repeated ad nausea.
Now he makes the idiotic statement that we’ll just sit on Obama’s nominee, when all he needed to say was that the Senate would perform its duty, but at this point it is highly unlikely that any of Obama’s left leaning nominees would ever see confirmation.
I think he does this kind of thing on purpose, so he can say he “tried” just before he gives away the house. On this particular topic though, his caving in will be the last straw, for a log time to come. The court will be leftist, and all of Obama’s ridiculous executive orders will stand.
One thing you have to give the hated despicable RATS; they have the cajones to stand pat and none stray off the reservation, while the pubbies are a bunch of friggin’ wimps.
This is the same Mitch McConnell that Ted Cruz referred to as a liar onot the senate floor.
GOP is going to cave. Cruz will strut about the Senate floor to no effect. We’ve seen this beltway theater performance before. It has a bad ending.
From the little I've read, Srinivasin seems like a politically neutral, highly accomplished jurist. Anyone know different?
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