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The GOP, taking infantile-like holding of one’s breath to a whole other level. May they all suffer collective syncope.
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Mr_VanHolst. I like to see some hellfire and damnation brought upon their in-august bodies… and recorded on C-Span for public viewing.
But that’s me… You’re a better man than I am … or would be , if I were a man.
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I so hope the press keeps this in the headlines when Obama nominates someone. If he nominates someone other that a white male, the optics will be delicious to behold.
I’m hoping for a mixed race black/Hispanic lesbian woman. But that’s just me.
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With no where else to go … the nominee will land right in McConnell’s lap –
Can’t wait to see him squirm —
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OK… Hillary or Bernie nominates former President Barack Obama… or even better… MICHELLE Obama
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Oh goddess… JCBlues, you’re such a tease.
How will this Republican party ever govern? They have no idea.
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Find someone with a real thick skin and ask them to be the first nominee, even knowing they aren’t going to make it.
Announce the nomination, then send them up to the Hill with a full contingent of press.
Watch them walk into one GOP senator’s office each day for a week and be told that he/she won’t meet with the nominee. Then they go to a Dem senator and get a warm, substantive welcome.
Watch all news networks and newspapers run that as their top story for a week until the GOP intransigence is tattooed on America’s face.
Sorrowfully withdraw the nomination, praise the former nominee as a highly-qualified patriot, and leave the unspoken implication that the process is broken by the GOP.
Lather, rinse, repeat until they back the fk down. After all, Obama doesn’t have a fk left to give.
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This is setting us down a pretty bad path. Not saying they have to confirm anyone but not going through their duty is a major slap in the face everywhere. It is pretty much saying we rather try and get elected than do what we are supposed to do.
Sure the base loves it but if that is the standard of the day than the GOP just proved that they cannot govern.
I am almost certain that by refusing to hold hearings they would be committing what is called “tacit consent”, in that they had an opportunity to forbid or refuse the nomination, but did not bother. This would mean that any nominee that was not heard by the senate could theoretically be assumed to be approved if no hearings were ever planned. I wonder what would happen if a justice showed up for work without the senate ever saying diddly?
And before anyone thinks that I’m full of it about tacit consent, here’s a fully documented law journal article about how the senate could be perceived as granting tacit consent, based on the constitutional passage in question: http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/1129_tk2rqipz.pdf
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I dunno, that seems undignified for a SCOTUS nominee
What’s really fucked up is that instead of shifting the balance of the court in a liberal direction – which American voters said they wanted in 2008 and 2012 – the GOP might actually take the presidency and replace not only Scalia but also perhaps Ginsberg and Kennedy, creating a significant rightward lurch that would result in a reversal of Roe v. Wade along with a bunch of other crazy right-wing precedent.
Seems really fucking unfair to me. I hope this motivates liberals to turn out and put the Democrats in charge of not only the White House but the Senate again too
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If the candidate were willing to put up with the shenanigans, I would like to see such GOP intransigence confront Sri Srinivasan, who clerked for Scalia and who was confirmed 97-0 just three years ago to the appeals court by these same Republican gentlemen of the Senate. My guess is that they would crumble before the primary season were over.
@tetrisd: hence the thick-skinned part. It ain’t gonna happen, so you’ve got to find someone who knows and can take it. Any legal scholars with terminal cancer?
@OccamsRazor2: They’ve gone too far down this path to back out of their vows without a substantial amount of public humiliation.
President Obama has made a strategic error for years by stressing that Washington and the Congress are broken. He should have instead pointed out calmly, factually, and relentlessly how selfish and self-interested Republicans have intentionally refused almost any cooperation and compromise in order to weaken the Federal government beyond recognition so as to serve their own ideological purposes. He should throw down his gauntlet now by offering his measured choice for the Supreme Court. And we who desperately want our democracy to work will storm those particular Republican barricades with our votes in November and banish them back to the swamps from where they first emerged.
put the lot in jail for refusing to do their duty.
can’t they be impeached for this?
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Actually, the court has been moving rightward even under Obama thanks to the focus of conservatives on the court. They cried about Obama’s appointments but really they were moderates that were left leaning, not as liberal as those before them. While conservatives appointed more and more conservative justices. Meaning even as it is, the court is more conservative than it has been in a bit.
If the GOP wins the presidency and the Senate than it will be a bad time for the US in the long run. Not just for Roe, but the separation of church and state, birth control in general, sodomy laws, gay marriage, business law, voting rights and so on will all pretty much go out the window.
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“I don’t see the point of going tHrough the motions if you already know what the outcome is going to be.”
Remind me, how many votes were taken to repeal the Affordable Care Act?
Right when Scalia hit the dirt there were some who urged Obama to do a recess appointment. I thought that was a terrible idea. I thought it would be divisive and unhelpful for the issues in our government.
Nope. I’m done. President Obama, take whatever loopholes, political art – WHATEVER IT TAKES – to shove a nominee as far up their foul holes as possible.