Posted on 02/17/2016 5:53:13 AM PST by C19fan
So far four potential turncoats: Grassley, Tillis, Kirk and Collins. Of course one can add McCain and the McCain Mini-Me.
And the GOPe wonders why Trump is so popular. Geesh.
Obama says ‘boo’... and the cave starts immediately. Disgusting!
* * * TRUMP 2016 * * *
Grassley’s playing rope-a-dope. McConnell would have to remove him from the Judiciary chair to get an Obama nominee past him.
This is another setup for Ted to announce.....”Here I am to save the day.....I will filibuster.”
Of course! They are almost all a bunch of &^%*, not much better than the crackpot left.
The expected msm pressure begins.
The GOP cuts and runs again in their endless quest to find a battle against the commie ‘RATS to “pick and chose” from while Obonzo continues his scorched earth policies in America. Yellow-bellied cowards. Take your “debates” and shove ‘em. This will be the third freak the Kenyan will be adding to “The Gang of Nine”.
Has it even been 24 hours?
That’s a really stupid comment. Think about it for a second.
Its better for the Senate to avoid any nominees and let those in vulnerable positions say they don't agree.
If the Senate took up any specific nominees then they will be accused of racism, sexism, hating blacks or hispanics or Asians, whatever (against the nominee)and those same Senators would be under even more pressure to approve.
Now libs are just saying its because Obama is black, a lame charge given he got two of his nominees through,.
They’re just playing the game. No way in hell would they have a vote. Ain’t gonna happen. Read my lips.
I think the Repubs should use a strategy that is facially one that is open to ubama’s nominee. Then do a long background check that takes several months and discovers some “troubling” things about the nominee. (i.e., he/she is too young, too old, too tall, too short, too white, too dark, too smart, too dumb, too catholic, too secular, too evangelical, too liberal, too conservative, too everything.) Then, just don’t hold hearings.
Oh, yeah. LIE! Lie the whole time and claim you are really cooperating with the President and fulfilling your God given role as Senators. (Lying should be easy enough for Mitch to do.)
Rinse, repeat until January 2017. This is the Miguel Estrada strategy used by the Dems. Follow it. It works! It is not so unsophisticated that even Mitch can understand it and get it done.
This gives plausible cover to our Presidential Candidate, regardless of who he is.
Oldplayer
Of course they are divided. They don’t represent their constituents. They represent The Machine.
It took only 72 hours for this to begin.
The GOPe-led Republican Party is totally beyond repair. The best thing for the long term advance of True Conservatism is the utter and total political annhiliation of the Republican Party.
The path is inevitible. The Republican Senators will hem and haw, draw multiple lines in the sand, and acquiesce on each one of them. In the end, they will be monumentally unpopular with the American people. They will either look weak before caving to Obama, or they will be tagged with racial or other nefarious motives if they do not execute their Constitutional role in approving the President’s nominee.
Most likely, in the end, there will be enough Republicans to break a fillibuster and confirm.
The best hope then, is that Republican Party suffers massive losses up and down the tickets. Let the Republican Party go through total political bloodbath in 2016 and watch the GOPe pols, poobahs, pundits, and operatives finally get their comeuppance!
Then watch an authentic and honest truly conservative grassroots movement spring up and take its rightful place.
But they don't have the necessary discipline.
The rinos had better NOT cave on this highly critical decision of approving a new SC justice sent forth by odumbo.
He has done more than enough damage to this nation, do not allow him another advantage. Block and delay any of his nominations, no matter how long it takes.
Email or call your US Senator and tell them to show some backbone, do not consider any Obama appointment to the court. I did, we need to get every Republican Senator covered up with calls and emails.
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