Discussion for article #246378
Yea, forget the will of the voters!
I mean, just because we say Obama can’t nominate someone because the voters haven’t spoken doesn’t mean that once they have spoken we have to listen to them.
We do what we want, and praise voters when we want and ignore them when we don’t.
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OMG. The revolution is here! The Senate is revolting! (as it always has been since the GOP took over).
There is surely some Constitutional remedy for this, isn’t there?
Does the Supreme Court get a say in this, given how utterly unconstitutional this move is?
(Hey Bernie: where are the million gathered outside McConnell’s window?)
P.S. I think McConnell just realized that the GOP will LOSE the next election too?
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There you go. Hillary nominees aren’t getting a vote either.
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Their behavior from the start of the Obama administration has been outrageous continually, as a baseline, and then there are periodic peaks of extra outrageousness. But this just goes beyond anything yet. It’s tantamount to a coup.
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I guess he’s counting on the next Justice to die being a liberal.
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We’re headed toward a seven justice court when Gisnburg retires or passes away. Rethugs will be more than happy with a 4-3 court. Breyer is probably next, so make it 4-2. Wouldn’t be shocked if, given a Dem president and Thug senate, we end HIlary’s second term with five justices.
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Proto-obstructionsim meets prospective-obstructionsim. What is it with these freeloaders?
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It’s funny, Republican senators refuse to talk to any American that Obama will nominate for the SC, and now are threatening to do the same to the next president’s nominees as well. But, they had no problem talking with the leaders of Iran to undercut Obama’s push for a treaty. I guess they will talk to anyone if it serves their hatred of the black president, or any Democratic president, but are willing to hold America hostage otherwise.
Someone should start a class action suit against the Senate on behalf of all the Americans who will be denied justice due to their unconstitutional attitude.
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When the pressure builds enough on swing state Republicans, Democrats should move to censure him and the judiciary committee letter signers for disregarding their duty. Put the screws to those swing staters and make them vote for or against.
Secondarily, slow anything they actually want to vote on with repeated quorum calls and calls of the house just to be obnoxious.
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Shorter Mitch McConnell— The Senate? The Constitution? The Country? We’re going to burn that f***er down.
So their basic logic is:
If we can pull this shit and still retain a majority… then we can pull this shit forever.
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This makes me think the November election will be rigged. That’s scary.
“What I am saying is, whoever the nominee is that comes up next year, will be considered by the Senate,” McConnell added.
You guys sure are doing a good job of giving confusing answers. Senator McConnell, why do you guys on the right hate America with such a vengeance?
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This is a coup. What else could you call it?
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I hope to Christ that its a Dem POTUS with a Dem Senate and we get to jam a liberal justice up their rectums after a nice lengthy filibuster tantrum by them that only succeeds in pissing off the public.
BTW, I think there’s a very good argument that McConnell and Grassley deciding on behalf of all Senators is not the “advice and consent” of the Senate, but a refusal to provide it. They have no cut out every Senator and that Senator’s state from the process of providing advice and consent. This is not the Senate’s actions as required by the Constitution, but rather the actions of the two people in control to prevent the Senate from acting. That is not what the Constitution says or requires.
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It is most certainly a back-door maneuver for non-action – and non-action is really action by another name.
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It’s the same principle at work—the normal functioning of the government doesn’t produce the result you want, so you extralegally override that normal functioning somehow.
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Great observation. Literally, just a few Senators are speaking for all 100 of them. Coup? Tyranny? Assholiness, for sure.
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