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Good luck with that
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I wonât live long enough to see it happen. However, as sure as the Earth rotates the United States is going to see increasingly smaller numbers of people professing a strong faith in a Supreme Deity. We will become increasingly browner and blacker. The LGBT community will come out of the closet in greater numbers and command respect and positions in society denied them for generations. Women will continue to get educations and better jobs. Youth will continue to carve their own path and not be beholden to the generation that birthed them. Republicans and die hard conservatives will shrink as a proportion of the populace, and once the tipping point is reached all the current angst over their idiocies and cruelties will ebb. Theyâll be rendered largely irrelevant. I only wish I had the 40 years left itâs going to take to witness it. Dancing on a grave can be its own special, perverted delight.
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Press Secretary Josh Earnest said during his daily media briefing that Obama has telephoned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA),
I look forward to his critique of their voicemail greetings. Classy to the end this guy.
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At least someone in Washington is doing their job and acting as though we have a functioning government. Hat tip, Mr. President.
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Go, Mr President. Nail this unconstitutional obstructionism right to their wrinkly foreheads.
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Good. If the Republicans want to withhold hearings on the nominee, then we can call it what it is: Republicans wanting a judge that will meet their ideological objectives. If they want this election to be the height of their culture war, then bring it. We will see how many people are really for all the crazy shit that they want the Supreme Court Justice to be for.
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Reach out on the morning shows and the 6 oâclock news while reading the Constitution.
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And the fact that itâs happening in a presidential election year is gravy. Sweet, sweet gravy.
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The GOP may still manage to obstruct & run out the clock, but President Obama is proceeding in exactly the right way, both constitutionally & politically. It will be interesting to watch how McConnell & the rest of the unconstitutional putsch will react to the measured & thoughtful way in which the administration is proceeding.
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NOTHING illustrates the Teabagger conviction that the Supreme Court is in their pocket as their pearl-clutching over replacing Scalia.
You replace Scalia and watch their lawsuits drop to ZERO.
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âThe White House spokesman urged Republican senators to avoid turning a constitutional matter into a partisan fight and asked them to evaluate future nominees on their individual merits.â
I assume this is being done for public consumption and not in any real hope that the Republicans would actually put duty ahead of party.
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I just took a glance at the calendar. Today is Friday, February 19, 2016. President Barack Obama will not be a âlame duck Presidentâ for another nine months. Please make a note of it, Republicans. Mitch and Charles, are your constituents so stupid that you think they wonât or canât comprehend that?
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Iâll dance on those graves for you! Iâm petty like that
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They will believe whatever FOX News tells them to believe.
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The American people did weigh in. We elected President Obama to two full terms, and âweighedâ in by overwhelmingly putting him in the position to name and get a vote on his nominations to the court by the Senate, regardless of how far into his terms of office he is in. Just as the Constitution dictates it to be.
Do your fucking job Congress and follow the damn Constitution.
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And of course, the âchorusâ of haters will be screaming that Obama LECTURED them on their Constitutional âdutyâ all in a ploy to make them do their freakinâ JOB.
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Classy leader vs. obstructionists. Let the fun begin!
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As Earnest noted, both Grassley and McConnell voted to confirm Justice Anthony Kennedy in the final year of Ronald Reaganâs presidency.
McConnell and Grassley also cited the 2014 election results in their argument against Obama making a nomination. However, Republicans also lost the Senate in 1986 (losing eight seats while the Dems lost nine in 2014), and Democrats won 258 House seats in 1986 compared to the 247 won by Republicans in 2014. So even with this convoluted, extra-constitutional standard, âlame-duckâ Ronald Reagan should not have nominated Kennedy.
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The most interesting scenario is no vote on scotus, râs win the presidency, dâs win the senate. What happens then? If I were majority leader, there is no way a vote for anyone other than obamaâs nominee comes up.