Nadie en el GOP quiere escuchar a un Mexicano
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It’s pretty funny to watch the politics of Republican obstructionism slowly dawn on the people who already hate Ted Cruz.
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Rachel Maddow is one of the bright stars who shine through the vast wasteland of what used to be this nation’s “Fourth Estate.”
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“He loves torture so much he wishes to see it inflicted on everyone, even his friends.”
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Verdad. Olvide la muralla de Trump… 
Well there is this little thing called Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 in the Constitution which mandates that the President nominate someone to fill vacancies to the Supreme Court:
[quote=“United States Constitution”]
“The President shall nominate, and, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court…”
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(emphasis mine)
The President shall, not “may”… but “shall” nominate nominate judges to the Supreme Court. Anyone who knows even the slightest thing about the law understands that “shall” means it is not optional.
Not that Gonzales, the GOP or the media hacks give a damn about following the clear text of the Constitution.
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That’s for YOU, Andrea Mitchell
[The individual who “reported” on President Obama’s announcement dealing with the SCOTUS nomination in a confrontational style, as though she was a TeaBagging Tricorn-hat nut]
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Can’t wait for DanaPurino to express her opinion…
“I suspect that President Obama is going to do his job, and after he does his job in nominating hopefully a qualified individual, the Senate will do its job, eventually, on its own calendar,” Gonzales said.
I suspect Gonzalez is just being cleverer than the average Republican. Reading between the lines, I think he’s saying, sure, let Obama make a pick. But then, the Senate can hem and haw until they find an obtuse reason to reject the candidate.
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He was at TexasTech for a couple years…
He’s now at a Tenn Xian school… Belmont.
Still could have left(right)over goats from TT.
He was aided and abetted by John Yu and David Addington…
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Ja ja ja ja ja!
I think it’s time to rephrase the question of precedent:
The question should not be “When has a President nominated a Justice in his last year?”
The question should be “When has the Senate refused to consider the nomination of a Justice in a President’s last year?”
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You should have stayed disappeared Alberto.
There is no way back for you-- ever.
jw1
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A most un-civil war?
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It signifies his membership in the Goat Tea Party
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Really, the best way for the GOP to approach this if they wanted to have this end result is bureaucratic. Let the president nominate somebody and schedule things as far apart as they can and have the hearings and so on. Even under the best of situations these things take a fair bit of time. given the elections not much was going to get done this year anyway but they could have done that without making a stink about it and gotten a similar result.
Then if their guys wins the WH than they could reject the person and let the new guy pick.
But it is the presidents power and duty to appoint someone. And it is the Senate’s job to act on it. They are acting purely political at the moment. If Obama picked the most qualified person everi t would not matter, they would not have conservative values and would get tossed. The only reason he got the two through that he did was that they were more moderate in opinions than the ones they replaced.
HERITAGE!!! HISTORY!!! WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION!!! THE BLAHS WERE BETTER OFF!!!
Oh…wait. Wrong topic.
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This is how a “good” politician handles it. He didn’t say anything different than the knuckle-draggers. He just said in a reasonable way that he Senate will handle it on their schedule – which of course will be 2017.
Gonzales is engaging in Image Rehabilitation 101.