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Good for him!!
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Throwing gasoline onto the fire engulfing the Republican party. Well done, Mr. President.
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The gauntlet is poised and ready to be thrown.
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That nominee will be expected to commit seppuku by the republicans when and if they acknowledge his/her existence. If he/she does notdo it on command they will commit death by 1000 cuts on that person’s reputation.
I commend Obama for carrying out his Constitutional duty in making his choice. Would that the republicans in the Senate fulfill their part…but they won’t because Obama has the temerity to get elected…twice… while black. McConnell just cannot stand that he can’t control elections. He said Obama would be a 1 term POTUS. And from day one of Obama’s time in office Mitch has dome everything he could to block, obstruct, end run and otherwise gum up Congress. All because of a man’s skin color.
As another poster said on another thread …we don’t deserve a President as good as Obama has been.
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You got that right Mr Darrtown.
Great, Mr President!
Also gotta give a salute to those two candidates. This is certainly not an ideal situation to get nominated but they are willing to take up the challenge.
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The republicans cite tradition in refusing to even acknowledge a choice has been made. Here is the actual tradition:
If Democrats and republicans can be nominated and confirmed in the year before a presidential election in the past then tradition should hold the same be true now. but the difference today is McConnell is in the driver’s seat (he thinks) and he has told his minions to ignore any nominee. I think this will backfire.
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The highly-anticipated nomination comes after many Republican senators pledged not to give Obama's nominee so much as a hearing, citing "tradition."
What, the song from Fiddler on the Roof?
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I am very glad to hear this wonderful news. That vacant seat must be filled and it should be filed sooner rather than later. There are a lot of cases that are needing thoughtful decisions and we need to move forward with the nomination process. I will also be keeping abreast of the hearings too.
If anything could dent wall-to-wall coverage of TrumpMania this might be it.
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Make the turtle endure the attention and questions…
The asshat will suffer and damage the “party”. keep that gasoline coming.
Our President is slapping turkey neck around and asshat knows it…
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That, of course, is the genius of these two possible nominees. They’ve already been through Senate confirmation, so unless either one of them has been running a dog-fighting ring in the basement of the Appeals Court, there’s no new “dirt” to dig up. And the Senate confirmed Garland by 76-23 (after stalling in 1995, while they waited for the “people’s voice” to be heard in the 1996 election - sound familiar?), and Srinivasan by 97-0.
The only thing the Republicans in the Senate could go after would be their decisions since they were confirmed. Srinivasan has the edge in that respect, simply because he’s been on the Appeals Court for only a couple of years - less material to work with.
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It’ll be Srinivasan.
Agree. I’d guess some bone was offered to him to submit to the ignominy that will surely follow, plus he’s not going to get confirmed; whether Clinton would re-nominate him is unknown, but it would be a pretty raw slap in the face to the Republicans if she did.
But as a sacrificial lamb, Srinivasan is absolutely perfect: moderate record (no “flaming liberal” crap) and a prior, relatively recent unanimous Senate approval. If they do not appoint him, the depth of their partisanship will be obvious even to the Kallikaks and Jukeses.
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