McConnell should use the Nuke Option for SCOTUS nominees. Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Will Obama go thermonuclear on the SCOTUS today?
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Mr H
Banana'd
Schumer: I'll 'absolutely' work to keep Supreme Court vacancy open.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...utely-work-to-keep-supreme-court-vacancy-open
Choice quotes:
Pathetic, and completely Unamerican... pure political hate.
- Jan 30, 2013
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Couldn't the same be said of Republicans who wouldn't put Garland to a vote?
-John
With Garland, IIRC the issue was timing and proximity to the Presidential election. Just as the Dems have done to Republicans, except that the rules are always different when it's the Dems.
Hey, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here... personally, I want the bench to lean right enough that someone buys them a V8.
This stuff goes back and forth politically, depending on who has control of the gov't at the time. 8 years ago we all b**ched about Obama, and now they're b**ching about Trump.
The big difference is the violence and up-in-arms the Lefties are pulling. *We* (that is, Republicans), never got that violent, IIRC. It was more about making sure O didn't screw up the country completely.
-John
Matlack
Scribe
- Dec 15, 2008
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Couldn't the same be said of Republicans who wouldn't put Garland to a vote?
-John
Just as a FYI it is precedent not to appoint a SCOTUS Justice the year of an election. I think it only occurred once back in the 1800's. Other vacancies that occurred during the final year of a presidential election were held until after the president was elected, and if a new president after they were sworn in. The D's are just bucking tradition and crying because they planned on his untimely death and expected to replace him along with RBG to solidify the SCOTUS for a generation.
Mr H
Banana'd
Plus, Schmucky doesn't need to be classy or polished... he's just being nasty.
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
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We can always hope that she likes to sleep under her pillow.
Just start a rumor that she has some dirt on the Clintons she is getting ready to release and the problem will disappear.
- Jan 30, 2013
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Who would be the Dem's #2 in the Senate if Schumbag were caught up in an ethics scandal and chuckied from the Senate?
I'm sure he would IF he could but can he do that on a SC issue? Can the majority in congress do it by changing the law with a simple majority?
Couldn't the same be said of Republicans who wouldn't put Garland to a vote?
-John
Nope, "Biden Rule".
EXACTLY.
I don't know if he can, but regardless, McConnell and the Republican poltroons are nothing more than gutless cowards who are only interested in getting re-elected and keeping their power.
Power of the purse ........
But worrying about getting elected and re-elected is what makes representative democracy function. When the GOV stops caring entirely about what the voters want, that's called "dictatorship".
Many of the problems we have now are a result of short attention spans, apathy, and lack of analytical thought on the part of the voting public. Politicians are reflections of their constituencies.
What we have now by and large.
The problem is that this is ALL that most of them care about, R or D.
Couldn't the same be said of Republicans who wouldn't put Garland to a vote?
-John
With respect, no. Biden said they would have done the same.
Correct.
Hey!, you are a new guy (just 31 posts); just wait until the mysterious 'Water Cooler' sub-forum opens for you. Looking forward to your wit there. Welcome!
Referencing your good argument: "The Biden Rule." http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/16/mitch-mcconnell-merrick-garland-biden-rule/
- Jan 30, 2013
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People have forgotten how much of a vacuous, insidious a-hole Biden was as a senator. He's a blend of John Kerry's intelligence and Harry Reid's mean-spiritedness.
That's the nicest description of a flaming sack ...with a wet bottom that I've heard in a long time.
