Of course! McConnell is going to let some “black boy” do anything!!! McConnell is the most disgusting member of Congress, and that includes Cruz!!!
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Shorter Shorter McConnell: (We’ll just skip over the Advice part of the Constitution.)
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Okay, Mitch, lets all see what your plan for unprecedented obstructionism does to your Republican brand. I see nothing but upside for Democrats if the GOP ultimately nominates Trump and obstructs President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee.
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What would you expect from the Repulsive Party, the most corrupt criminal enterprise known to man?
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Since the GOP has signaled it will refuse to do anything, I think Obama can afford to nominate Sri Srinivasan. Normally I think it would be a mistake to take him off the critically important seat that he’s got now, since the DC Circuit rules on many cases that affect how the US government functions, but since he’ll never get confirmed, Obama can take the opportunity to emphasize to the South Asian community in the United States just how bigoted and intolerant and backward-thinking the Republican Party is.
Whether Srinivasan will be willing to go along with this is another question.
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Fuck off yertle. Your days as majority leader as numbered.
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On the other hand… if the Rs take the White House and hold the Senate, the Ds will be able to argue “precedent” for filibustering any R President’s nominee, thus leaving the court at 4-4 until the next Justice dies. Better pray for the notorious RBG to hang in there. Of course, all this could lead to eliminating the filibuster all together, which would be a very good thing.
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Except there are a number of critical issues that the GOP is depending on the Court to decide in their favor. So a 4-4 Court will hurt them more than help them.
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“Will we allow the people to continue deciding who will nominate the next justice or will we empower a lame duck president to make that decision on his way out the door instead?” he asked.
Obama was a lame duck President on Inauguration Day, January 20th, 2013. McConnell's philosophy taken to its logical extension would dictate no second term President should have the power to make nominations of any kind to any position. A journalist needs to ask him that, directly, framed in that way.
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This logic says on day one of a presidents second term he/she is a lame duck so if a Supreme Court justice (or perhaps any federal justice) needs to be named wait until the next president is elected by the people - by the way who elected the current president?
Hope there is a doG…
I’d be reassured if there were some spontaneous combustion of MrTurtle and his SenateSonsOfMitches. But it has to be simultaneous combustions. Lightning bolts would do.
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McConnell and the rest of the Republican establishment have reached the kamikaze stage of their defeat. Scalia’s death is a reminder that their Reagan generation is dying off during an election cycle during which even the Republican base no longer buys their ideology. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and more judicial activism are the only resources they have left, and the message to Senate Republicans from the establishment conservatives is for them to fall on their swords and save the court for the next generation.
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"“Will we allow the people to continue deciding who will nominate the next justice”
WE already did! WE elected President Obama twice. With significant margins too!
So let the PRESIDENT we already elected nominate his choice!!!
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Fu*king hypocritical old post turtle!
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Here’s what I’d love to read the morning after the elections!
Dems sweep Senate now have 61 Democratic Senators, retake House and the White House!
Two Supreme Court Justices, Thomas & Alito plan to resign!
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I don’t think it’s going to play well with most reasonable Americans that, sight unseen, McConnell wants to abort the nominee. I believe there will be a price to pay for this behavior.
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Reworked Shorter McConnell: Yeah, yeah I know you thought you elected a President for a four year term. But I’m telling you – it only runs for three years.
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Who turned this man’s smile upside down? It is starting to have an affect on his brain.
Just to punk the seditious GOP in the Senate, Obama should nominate someone like Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, then, when the GOP is falling all over themselves to hold a vote on him, retract the nomination and put forward a real Progressive one.
It would be illuminating what would happen then and rip off the veneer of “Constitutional” from these assholes.
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I’ll have, what you’re having!
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