Discussion: Graham On Confirming Garland In Lame Duck 'You Can't Have It Both Ways'

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" I cannot perform the functions of my job. So I should resign."

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If it is all about principle, then the GOP might want to follow the US constitution. That would be a principled approach. You cannot have it both ways.

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Or, Obama can call them into cintinous session until they hold hearings and schedule a vote. Although that action might bite into their ability to run for reelection. That would be sad…

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Obama just made them foolish because they said such nice things about Garland before, now they look like idiots. They continue to yap their mouths about how NO Pres has EVER gotten a SCOTUS confirmed in his last year, hell they’ve never even nominating one. And now that they basically said that Dems have no rights to nominate because they’ll never confirm one, where does it get to the point of treason? Where does it reach a point of the actual SCOTUS help deciding?

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See answerfrog’s post below and you might change your mind.

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I think Obama is giving them a gift here and they’re slapping his hand away. If Hillary wins there will be no nomiantions until she’s in office and it will be an ultra liberal pick.

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Yet, that position undermines Republicans’ central argument so far that their opposition to Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court has nothing to do with the merits of Obama’s nominee and is instead just about one principle: the next president gets to pick the nominee.

The problem for the GOP is that that principle is not a principle. It’s a “We hate hate hate the idea that fate has given Obama a third SCOTUS appointment,” which is understandable. But delaying a confirmation hearing for a year is just a “we have no arguments, let’s try this one” argument, not a principle.

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That’s good, mate.

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This was a brilliant move by the President for many reasons but the biggest reason was to make them eat their words after they championed him. He won’t even get a vote let alone confirmed. HRC will have the privilege of nominating a more progressive guy. "Progressive (emoprogs) just don’t get it - ever

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You are an asshole

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Hey, we’re TPMers! We know that already!:wink:

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Isnt great to see the GOP being caught up by their own obstruction? Will they actually be called out on their own hypocrisy? i doubt it…

It’s NOT “the” people that the GOP is taking about it’s the likes of the Judicial Crisis and Heritage Foundation that represent the plutocracy. But now, GOP is being caught up by their own obstruction

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The article does use the term correctly; it is that post-election period that Senate GOPers refer to.

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I was about to post the same thing. That would be awesome, almost as awesome as Obama’s saying at 11:59 a.m. on January 20, 2017, “Guess what, bitches — I really was born in Kenya!”

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Thank you for point that out! I said as much in an earlier post (when I first read the article), but the system ate my post. Most of the time, the system does that attempt at a double post – and then notifies you that “Body is duplicate,” etc. This time, when I thought it’d posted my comment and was notifying me of the duplicate body, etc., I clicked to ‘cancel.’ When I did, the whole post disappeared. Frustrating. Then I got side-tracked, so I’m glad you brought that up. True – since one or more of them (Orin Hatch, I believe, first did it) used the term properly, on record, it’s not easy to revert back to the lame idea (pun intended) that lame duck somehow extends a whole year back. :smiley:

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Then I guess Grassley is probably still down as a no if there is a vote before he gets booted out of office.

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Oh, they knew what it meant all along, however, President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee has discombobulated some GOPers into fumbling their partisan misuse of the term.

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I agree with the sentiment, but it would hardly matter at that point. Repubs will be free to go full Trump with no election hanging over their heads.

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I love that idea. It would serve them right. I wouldn’t like that Garland was used so badly (by the Republicans) but if his nomination languishes for the majority of this year up to and including Election Day, that’s a generous amount of time for them to consider the nomination.

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Wow! I can deal with that. :relaxed:

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