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Pffttt! What, does Obama think heâs some kind of Constitutional scholar, or something? GOBAMA!
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Thanks Obama!
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Whatta man, whatta man whatta mighty mighty good (delicious) man.
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Wow. That was awesome. Great answers to every question. Cut Trump off at the frigginâ knees.
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Except it still allows Republicans to slow walk the nomination to death.
The Constitution says âadvise and consentâ, not delay and obstruct, but I donât see a way around the Republicanâs bad faith.
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The thing that makes my brain hurt is the way the MSM has averted its eyes as the Republicans spent the last two decades blowing up, one after another, all of the unwritten rules, boundaries and conventions that made our inherently unworkable separation of powers system work and then just instantly accepts it as immutable truth of the way things have always been going back to 1789 when the Republicans pull one made-up âruleâ out of their ass after another and hold it up as some hoary tradition or Constitutional principle.
âOh, we never consider Supreme Court nominees in the last year of a presidentâs term of office! Always been that way! Kennedy? Never heard of him!â âWhy, itâs always been the tradition that every vote in the Senate requires 60 votes!â âInviting foreign heads of state to give speeches opposing the foreign policy of the president to speak to a joint session of Congress? Why, weâve been doing that since Adams!â
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Leave it to Obama to politicize this moment by accurately interpreting the Constitution and craven GOP logic.
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Sure, but he only counts as 3/5ths of a President. His term should have ended after, like, 57.6 months even after being reelected.
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Perhaps if only Reid had sent them one more Strongly Worded Letter�
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Bingo.
Anyone trying to argue that the President should hold off nominating anyone, or that the Senate should not take up and consider said nomination, is full of shit and the chance are 99.9% true that such a person is an idealogical wing nut who puts their own political/idealogical axe to grind above following the law.
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Oh sure, throw the constitution into the faces in the senate. Those are just words written down on paper telling us what the president and the senate is supposed to do when a supreme court justice dies. Its optional, its not like it says the president and senate SHALL do something specific. Its completely discressionary⌠wait, what???
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Without a full court of nine justicesâŚweâll never know for sure!
Time to call the whole thing off, I guess.
Facts.
Something Republicans do not understand. At all.
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The nice touch was saying âthatâs not in the constitutional text.â Take that, strict constructionists. Even Nino Scalia would have to agree on that one.
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And since âbalanceâ requires the sharing of responsibility, media, like the green youngsters and Ron Allen just moments ago at the presser, ask a member of the opposite party to outline the role they, then, had to have playedâŚsad, but anymore, only the elderly and the gormless buy this act.
I thought the President was rather kind to âMr. Trumpâ as he smeared trump all over the remainder of the dying partyâŚ
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We need to go all Deadwood on the GOP if they persist in this nonsense.
BTW, since itâs clear that GOD loves US and not the GOP, maybe he could do a little more housecleaning on the court?
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Public pressure.
Though my personal favorite would be to take off and nuke them from orbit.
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I half expected him to say âyou canât just fire Gary Bussey againâ
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It is a matter of time before the court deals with one of those right wing cases that will not be the test case they wanted it to be if the court splits 4-4 and the decision wonât set precedent, then they will move to review the nominee.
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