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.
That’s a record. They actually had a spine for one whole day.
I am gonna be all over my two Senators from now till doomsday about NOT voting for any Obama USSC replacement, period.
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.
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.
“GOP gets squishy...”
What do they mean, “gets”?
There it is. I knew McConnell would back down. He’s useless.
MAY, hell! It is certain.
Question: Will Obama pick a more moderate judge than a Republican would choose?
Took them a day to get squishy. That’s longer than usual.