Posted on 02/17/2016 5:10:27 AM PST by McGruff
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) has vowed to block any of lame-duck President Obama's Supreme Court nominations.
The media have taken to acting as if this move is unprecedented, and that a senator has never publicly stated he would intentionally block a presidential nomination. Not true. Not only have there been several lengthy Supreme Court vacancies, but there are plenty of past instances when senators refused to confirm a president's nominations.
Here are 10 other times Democrats vowed to block Republican court nominees.
1. Sen Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in 2007 that President George W. Bush shouldn't get to pick any more Supreme Court justices because Schumer was afraid the bench leaned too far Right. Schumer made this remark a whole 19 months before the next president was inaugurated.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
‘Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) has vowed to block any of lame-duck President Obama’s Supreme Court nominations.’
Let’s hope this actually happens.
Lately, the Republicans haven’t inspired much confidence in their resolve.
Good cop-Bad cop playing out here.
McTurtle initially vows to block consideration of any nominee put forward by Zero, but eventually relents to pressure from the GOP Senate Caucus to be “fair.”
Obama gets his justice, and Republican voters get the shaft.
Again.
The democrats/liberals/left are untrustworthy. Don’t expect them to be fair, honest, or do anything that is right... so the other side must act accordingly... Don’t ask them for a thing... set the rules, don’t give them a chance to fool ya’ or take advantage.. stay ahead of them.. expect low down tactics.. and don’t give them the chance to use them. Forget deals with them.. it’s a useless endeavor.. just dig in, demand, and NEVER give in to them.. NEVER even act like it.. This is why Trump is ahead by so much.. and if the repubs do a very foolish thing... AGAIN.. on this important item... his numbers will yet climb. Trump may just take the fed up democrats along too. I’ve never seen such cowards in my lifetime as the republican house and senate. I go way back and weak men are a thing produced by ‘touchy feely’ feminists who tried to make men more so.. they broke the mold of one of God’s creations.. MEN with SPINE!
The Rats can bluster all they want about this. It’s just not something that the LIV’s (especially THEIR LIV’s) care about.
Nobody’s paying attention to Obama any more. Shrillary and Bern will stump about this for a while, but then they’ll turn back to their usual meme of free Skittles for all.
As long as the GOP makes a show that they are doing something about the nominee, that will be enough cover.
The dems only need 14 republican senators to vote to confirm Obama’s choice for SCJ. If brought up for a vote I’d say it’s a done deal. The republican delaying tactic likely never happens.
Of course, the creepage of the blot of liberalism into the Republican camp has ruined us all. What he said in summing up the gross slide and the needs to even slow it is as follows:
"If there are signs that we have become less concerned than we should be with virtue, there are also signs that many Americans are becoming restless under the tyrannies of egalitarianism and sick of the hedonistic individualism that has brought us to the suburbs of Gomorrah. But for the immediate future, what we probably face is an increasingly vulgar, violent, chaotic, and politicized culture. Our hopes, our stuggles, and our optimism must be for the long run. The first requisite is knowing what is happening to us. This book has tried to answer that, to show that decline runs across our entire culture, and that it has a common cause, modern liberalism.
The second step is resistance to radical individualism and radical egalitarianism in every area of culture. It is pointless to ask, "What is the solution?" There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must be attacked area by area. Religion must be recaptured church by church; and education university by university, school board by school board. Bureaucracies must be tamed. The judiciary must be criticized when it oversteps its legitimate authority, as it now regularly does. A few of the necessary actions must involve the government, as in capturing and punishing criminals, and, perhaps, in administering censorship of the vilest aspects of our popular culture; otherwise, government must be kept at a distance." (My bolded highlights to the text, not Bork's.)
My fellow FRiends and so-called "Christian" brothers, Donald J. Trump only continues to exacerbate the onslaught of mouthy, self-serving indecencies, lies, and personal conduct in a vulgar, violent, chaotic, and politicized manner that are condemning this nation to supernatural judgment, and that much sooner than most of us think. Trump has lived a life of liberalism, and his lie of pretending to subscribe to a few conservative goals are so phony that only fools can believe that, upon acceding to the executive office, he will not abandon his weak promises and merely go on as before.
Don't, don't be a fool!
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