Posted on 02/17/2016 2:25:16 PM PST by PROCON
President Obama "regrets" filibustering the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, his top spokesman said Wednesday, though he maintains that the Republican opposition to his effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia is unprecedented.
"That is an approach the president regrets," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
Obama and the Democratic senators who joined him in filibustering Alito "should have been in the position where they were making a public case" against the merits of his nomination to the high court instead, Earnest said.
"They shouldn't have looked for a way to just throw sand in the gears of the process," he added.
As a senator from Illinois, Obama and 23 other senators attempted to stage a filibuster to block a confirmation vote on Alito, one of former President George W. Bush's picks to serve on the bench. The filibuster bid failed and Alito was confirmed.
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Only thing the Prez regrets is losing because Alito is on the bench.
Must be pretending some other emotion.
Obama should brace himself(he is probably familiar with that pose) for what goes around!
When things go round and round it is called a REVOLUTION!
Because it puts him in a hypocritical bind now.
That is the sole reason.
As soon as Trump wraps up the GOP nomination I feel sure he is going to be letting Mitch and Grassley know loud and clear that he expects to nominate the replacement for Scalia.
Too late Valerie.
Shoe’s on the other foot no, saying you’re sorry now is just lame. Just Obama.
Ah...still more liberal crocodile tears.....
How does the media report this stuff with a straight face?
How do we read it without destroying the screens on our PC’s?
We live in a mutated reality where Democrats/Progressives/Socialists can say anything, however preposterous, and be believed by 47% of the population.
More he regrets being caught and being exposed as a hypocrite again. Regret means nothing, action spoke.
Too late, BO. as ye sow shall so ye reap.
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