~~~ NEWSFLASH for Sen Flake~~~
most people don’t believe your Republican ‘reason’ either… not speaking for everyone but I’d bet money most people believe, as I do, that the real reason is because your caucus is led by a racist prick still trying to keep the President from getting a second term and failing that not giving him any ‘win’ if he can help it…
and YOU are personally complicit for going along with it…
Only if the
democrats do not take back the senate
It was a much more pleasant swamp 200 years ago.
I can’t think of a Senator … ever…
Whose name was so apropos –
The real story here is that a Republican senator managed to think more than a single step ahead on an issue that could ultimately become a self-inflicted wound.
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Otherwise he is going to have to stall a more liberal judge for 4 years.
[/quote]You’d have to wonder how he’d try to sell that one without pretty much every single human on the planet calling him out on his BS.
“GOP Senator: ‘Nobody Really Believes’ That Next Prez Should Get SCOTUS Pick.”
And nobody really believes the GOP isn’t a craven, lying, unprincipled, pack of self-dealing hypocrites.
Nobody.
Really.
If Clinton wins I hope Obama retracts Garland so Clinton can nominate a much, much more liberal Justice. Anything else rewards obstruction.
“Our position shouldn’t be that the next president ought to decide.
Nobody really believes that, because if this were the last year of a
Republican presidency nobody would say that,” Flake told the Daily Beast.
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Sen. Flake, take a look at Article 2 section 2. Nothing there says a President cannot nominate in the last year of a term. In fact judges have been nominated and approved in such a scenario. You are just denying reality. Also Do use words like “Nobody really believes that…”. With that phrase you are saying I agree with you. I don’t. You don’t get to say what I believe.
They will do it during the lame duck session. Anyway, there is a very good chance the Democrats won’t take control of the senate. Apparently the Democrats have picked several poor candidates.
Completely convenient. He said, “Our position shouldn’t be that the next president ought to decide. Nobody really believes that,” but he omitted, “Now that it’s increasingly clear that Hillary will be the next president.”
"“Our position shouldn’t be that the next president ought to decide. Nobody really believes that, because if this were the last year of a Republican presidency nobody would say that”
This is true, and a telling point about the Republicans. If it were the last year of a Republican presidency, no one - including Democrats - would say what the Republican members of Congress have been saying, that we should bypass Congress’ constitutional responsibility.
Wow, these rabid right-wing kooks believe everything that comes out of their mouths, huh?
“The altered mind alters all.”
No real political party wants him—and Jill Stein says he has cooties, so he can’t join the Green party.
So Flake is saying that a bunch of deceitful douchebags are engaged in deceitful douchebaggery? Gee, folks, STOP THE PRESSES!
“ought to be to confirm the most conservative justice to replace Scalia,” to maintain balance. MAINTAIN BALANCE!! Oh, so having a winger majority is ‘balance’, huh. I want the balance to be 5-4 in the OTHER direction. Asshole.
Not that long, If he (McConnell) gets lucky. A third of the Senate is up for election every two years, even if they hold this year, they will have to face the voters again in 2018. I doubt the Turtle can hold off hearings for that long. I think Flake is right, and they will take half a loaf during the lame duck, because I’m now pretty confident Secretary Clinton will win the White House. Shameful, but these are Republicans we’re talking about.
I wish Obama would withdraw the nomination after a Clinton victory. Would be sweet payback to Republicans for abandoning their duty. Sadly (in this one instance), I think Obama is far too classy to do that–not only just to do the honorable and correct thing in general, but also to be respectful towards Garland.
My initial read was that he didn’t think Clinton should get a Supreme Court nominee. Not much different than the argument McConnell and Co. pushed since last February.
“ought to be to confirm the most conservative justice to replace Scalia,” to maintain balance, even if that means confirming President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
Umm, yeah Jeff, you’re going to hold hearings, do background checks, make the rounds of the Sunday shows and get someone else confirmed between 11/9 and 1/20/17. You got the guy you’re gonna get, and you blew your chance to make it a constitutional process. Suck it up.
The Turtle has said categorically that he will not bring up Garland’s nomination in the Lame Duck session. He might not even be majority leader when the next Senate starts. It would be a just irony if that happens. Clinton has indicated that judicial nominations will be a priority on day one if elected.