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Bill Clinton: McConnell, Trump ‘Hypocritical’ — ‘Their First Value Is Power’(#CMTSU!)
breitbart.com ^ | 9/20/2020 | Pam Key

Posted on 09/20/2020 11:26:31 AM PDT by rktman

Former President Bill Clinton said on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “State of the Union” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and President Donald Trump were “hypocritical” for vowing to fill the vacancy following the passing of Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Anchor Jake Tapper said, “President Trump has vowed to nominate a woman this week to fill that slot on the Supreme Court. What’s your reaction?”

Clinton said, “Well, of course, it’s superficially hypocritical, isn’t it? Mitch McConnell wouldn’t give President Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing ten months before the president’s election. And that meant that we went a long time with eight judges on the court. This is what they do. I think both for Senator McConnell and President Trump. Their first value is power, and they’re trying to fill the court with as many ideological judges as they can. But to be fair, there is a case to be made for the argument McConnell made that in the middle of a presidential season, you should give the voters a say — that’s what he said when it was 10 months away. But when the shoe’s on the other foot, and he wants to judge, we’re fewer than 50 days away, and that argument doesn’t cut any mustard.”

He added, “So, it’s going to further spread cynicism in our system. And, you know, he said he wouldn’t do it.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; billclintoninterview; interview; scotusvacancy; uhyeah
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Can't Make This Sh*t Up! Of course we already know what slick's values are. Spitter or not.
1 posted on 09/20/2020 11:26:31 AM PDT by rktman
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bills the hypocrite

he knows history


2 posted on 09/20/2020 11:27:08 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman

And look who is calling the kettle black.


3 posted on 09/20/2020 11:29:50 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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Power?

Says the creepy guy still pulling Sunday morning talk show strings thirty years after his presidential run

People find this impeached disgraced woman abusing felon relevant


4 posted on 09/20/2020 11:29:59 AM PDT by stanne
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Is it hypocrisy to oppose one’s political enemies?


5 posted on 09/20/2020 11:30:27 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Leftism is a pseudo scientific political movement that espouses Marxist doctrine.)
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To: rktman

Stick a cigar in it Bill.


6 posted on 09/20/2020 11:31:52 AM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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Tell that to Monica Lewinski, Bubba.


7 posted on 09/20/2020 11:33:20 AM PDT by Americannae1362
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To: rktman

The whole point of politics is the accumulation and use of power. In this case, it’s the power to do good things.


8 posted on 09/20/2020 11:36:20 AM PDT by Chengdu54
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9 posted on 09/20/2020 11:39:37 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Chengdu54

Yeah, who would have ever made that connection that power and politics go along hand in hand.


10 posted on 09/20/2020 11:41:24 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Bill’s first value is sex.


11 posted on 09/20/2020 11:43:15 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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Billy Fastballs Rapist Clinton & Hillaryous Rotten Criminal...better put some ice on that rapist.


12 posted on 09/20/2020 11:43:40 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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In 2016 the voters chose Trump knowing full well that he would most likely have to chose a replacement for the aging decrepit Ginsburg. Trump is the president and one of his duties is to name a replacement. You can bet that if 0bama named a replace and the senate was controlled by the dems they would have approved the nominee even if it was on January 19 2017.


13 posted on 09/20/2020 11:49:33 AM PDT by euram
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Coming from BJ Clinton, It sounds like a classic case of Leftist Projection.


14 posted on 09/20/2020 11:53:36 AM PDT by semaj (Death to Traitors!)
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You know if the DOJ would officially release a criminal case against what the democrats did to Trump then a lot of people would realize that if the democrats get to install a Justice then it would be another crook out to harm the country. The deep state ambitions of the democrat party need to be exposed in order to entirely change the perception. And just about Trump but Biden and the Ukraine, The Clinton Foundation, Soros, and a whole lot of other stuff. Let the world know that the democrat party is a criminal organization.


15 posted on 09/20/2020 11:57:58 AM PDT by Revel
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Is this from the babylon bee?


16 posted on 09/20/2020 12:03:52 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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This guy, after his behavior should have been relegated to the dust bin of history. If we had an honest media, he would have been. Now we have to pretend he is some kind of elder statesman?


17 posted on 09/20/2020 12:09:44 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (She is b.s. crazy, Jim!)
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The guy who in his professional and personal ethics, is practically a poster child for “how you got Trump”, has thoughts on Trump’s and McConnell’s.


18 posted on 09/20/2020 12:20:48 PM PDT by RichInOC (An erect Bill Clinton has no conscience.)
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Dirty old sex fiend is more like it.


19 posted on 09/20/2020 12:22:35 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: euram
And even more recently, lest the Democrats forget, the 2018 mid-term elections saw the Republicans gain 2 seats in the U.S. Senate.

Advice & consent as it pertained to judicial nominations - including for the USSC - was one of the key issues in that election, as it was in 2016.

20 posted on 09/20/2020 12:26:20 PM PDT by mellow velo
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