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Obama fires back at Senate Republicans in SCourt battle'says will fulfill his constitutional duty'
foxnews ^ | 2/16/16

Posted on 02/17/2016 6:00:27 AM PST by doldrumsforgop

President Obama fired back Tuesday at Senate Republicans pre-emptively threatening to block his eventual nominee to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia, saying at a press conference that the Senate has “more than enough time” to consider his pick and he intends to press ahead.

“The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now,” Obama said. “When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the president of the United States is to nominate someone. The Senate is to consider that nomination.”

Obama, in his most extensive remarks on the vacancy since the 79-year-old Scalia was found dead at a Texas ranch on Saturday, rejected widespread calls by Republican lawmakers and 2016 candidates to defer to the next president to fill Scalia’s seat.

“There is no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off-years. That’s not in the constitutional text,” Obama said, blasting what he called an “obstructionist” Senate.

The president has found himself in an awkward position, though, as he scolds Republicans over threats to block his nominee – since Obama, as a U.S. senator, tried in 2006 to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito, who ultimately was confirmed. Asked about that seeming discrepancy on Tuesday, Obama did not answer directly. He noted that senators are sometimes worried about primary elections and a backlash from supporters, and take “strategic decisions.” But he brushed off his own opposition to Alito, saying he’s on the bench now, “regardless of which votes particular senators have taken.”

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To: doldrumsforgop

Charles Grassley had started caving before Obama had even left the podium.

We’re SCROOOOOOOD.


21 posted on 02/17/2016 6:28:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: doldrumsforgop
The liberal media have decided to CREATE stories ttha make it appear Republicans are weakening their stance against Obama nominations.

With McConnell in there, it makes it easy to believe.

This is another (they do it all the time) attempt to divide and conquer.

Some of the senators are up for re-election....if they cave in, they will be unemployed very soon

22 posted on 02/17/2016 6:28:47 AM PST by capt. norm (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat!)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Did anyone listen to his rambling rant at the presser?

The first lady called on asked the relevant, but obviously anticipated question about O’s plans for the Supreme Court. He must have went on for 20 minutes, about that, the GOP, his duty... He loves the sound of his own voice, and hopes everyone else does, too.

He’s a master at doublespeak, as well. The same guy who filibustered Alito, from the Schumer party that wanted to block all GWB nominations a year and a half before the end of his term, is now piously spouting about the Constitution.


23 posted on 02/17/2016 6:29:17 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: doldrumsforgop

If he really wanted to fulfill his constitutional duty, he would resign immediately from the office he was never constitutionally qualified to hold


24 posted on 02/17/2016 6:30:20 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: capt. norm
This is another (they do it all the time) attempt to divide and conquer. Some of the senators are up for re-election....if they cave in, they will be unemployed very soon

Totally agree, the GOP needs to go on the offensive and frame this with reality, the reality that the Dems would have the exact same position, and have, and will instead allow Freedom loving Americans to choose at the ballot box: Freedom vs. Hillary

25 posted on 02/17/2016 6:32:12 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: austinaero
If the Senate even allows a so called moderate chosen by Obozo to the SCOTUS, it will spell disaster for republicans in November. We will then see a republican president, republican house and a democrat senate. More of the same...block conservatism at all cost D.C..
26 posted on 02/17/2016 6:40:18 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: odawg

He’s going to make a recess appointment, watch.


27 posted on 02/17/2016 6:41:37 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: doldrumsforgop
Hey, King Obama, stick your constitutional duty up where the sun don't shine.

Trump for President.

28 posted on 02/17/2016 6:44:11 AM PST by Logical me
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To: doldrumsforgop

Ok 0, and when you put up a candidate who is out of touch with the main stream on 1st and 2nd Amendment issues, the Senate will do their Constitutional duty and reject your radical appointment as unfit


29 posted on 02/17/2016 6:44:30 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: austinaero

McConnell is an idiot for (among many other things...) saying he’d obstruct/

He should have said, “We’ll give the President’s nominee a fair hearing, yadayda


30 posted on 02/17/2016 6:44:41 AM PST by Redbob (#BlackCoffeeMatters)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Folks...when POTUS Barack Hussein Obama says that Donald J. Trump will never be the POTUS...it really means....”My Satan. if this dude Trump ever becomes POTUS...my legacy will be be in the cesspool for all eternity”!!! IMHO, Obama just simply joins the multitude, of low life Democrat & Republican Establishment types that told us Donald J. Trump will go nowhere...politically!!! WRONG!!! GO DONALD J. TRUMP!!! The list of these buffoons is too long to list here. And. anyone that votes for Cruz, Bush, Rubio, Kasich is simply throwing their vote away!!! Just more of the same low life Establishment!!!

I will never figure out why GW Bush agreed to appear with that deadbeat brother of his, Jeb Bush!!! The very fact that GW now announces he will not make anymore public appearances with his brother tells the entire story!!! Ya know that the Bush & Bush rally yesterday had for folks in attendance, somewhere between 880-3,000 people. DJT had 20,000 between his two rallies yesterday. I guess GW Bush was not as popular in South Carolina as the mainstream media has been telling us!!!


31 posted on 02/17/2016 6:49:48 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat Hillary Clinton & totally destroy the entire Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Constitutional duty = 0bama oxyMORON


32 posted on 02/17/2016 6:53:24 AM PST by pookie18 (9 months until the general election...)
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To: Yogafist
What? No he's not. Maybe among demoCRPAS and the Lefist media he is, but not in the minds of the Republican electorate and Senators.

Let the low information voter think what they want. That's an oxymoron anyway. Low information voters aren't even paying attention and won't vote democRAT based on this argument by Obama.

The Constitution says, "Senate must consider..." and that's all. The Senate doesn't have any responsibility to a president's SC nominee beyond that consideration to do anything. They don't have to say yea or nay or give him what he wants.

33 posted on 02/17/2016 6:55:02 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: doldrumsforgop

Just negate every word that comes out of its mouth. So satanic.

Remember all the anti-Christ shouts? This one is our training dummie.


34 posted on 02/17/2016 6:56:44 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: doldrumsforgop

His duty is to nominate after that it is out of his hands

but Mitch and the wussy boys will roll over and give the DiC everything he wants and more


35 posted on 02/17/2016 7:00:50 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: doldrumsforgop

You’re a lame duck president Barry. Your power is gone!


36 posted on 02/17/2016 7:03:09 AM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: struggle
It'll be stuck in committee. McConnell will never get hold of it.

Isn't Grassley the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman? This wimp started to fold before McConnell.

37 posted on 02/17/2016 7:05:53 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: austinaero

“How come Trump could name two judges right away and Obama hasn’t named one yet?”

I think Obama would like to carefully pick one that the public would view as a reasonable compromise between liberal and conservative and thus it would look bad for republicans to oppose it.


38 posted on 02/17/2016 7:29:24 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: JohnG45

Yeah, but you’ve got Cruz, Lee, and a few other conservatives there.

I think it will hold. You at least have the argument that the current SCOTUS doesn’t complete this term until June. After that, it’s convention season, and no one is paying attention.


39 posted on 02/17/2016 7:59:39 AM PST by struggle
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To: doldrumsforgop

Imagine what all obama would do if he gets his liberal nominee in the SC. He’d finish the job of changing America with the months he had left. It’d be the biggest present he ever imagined. There may be more judges to appoint if we do get a Republican President in 2017, but for the time left, he’d transform this country into something so very bad that just thinking down that line sends chills. Everything he ever wanted to do and has not done yet... the really significant things... the things that would hurt us to the core and change the way we live... It’d be a disaster. The left is so uninformed and senseless they don’t know what their wishes would do to everything. There is a sure outcome to stupidity.. and they don’t have enough sense to realize it.


40 posted on 02/17/2016 8:18:21 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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