Discussion: Schumer: Those Open To Lame Duck Confirmation Undercut GOP Argument

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“We are seeing crackpots on the Republican side,” he said.

FIFY

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Totally agree - the Republicans just knee-capped themselves. They couldn’t have made our argument any more clear or give it any more sense if they were actually trying.

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I originally read Shumer’s remark as “cranks” & thought “Well, of course.”

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That’s already just understood. :smile:

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Of course, the crackpots have cracks.

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I would love to hear all these private meetings between GOP senators and Garland. I’d love to hear them discuss how they are BIG defenders of the constitution and so can’t have hearings to confirm him.

Then, since this is my fantasy, it turns out Garland is really the DareDevil, and kicks their collective asses.

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Sen. Schumer is correct – the GOP can’t insist that we should let the next president have the right to nominate Scalia’s replacement and then suggest that if Hillary wins, then Obama gets his nominee. There’s no logic to it other than the delusion from the GOP that they are in complete control. Their hand isn’t terribly strong now and, as the general election fast approaches and the polling likely suggests a Hillary victory over Trump, it gets weaker. I would expect Obama will convey to the GOP an expiration date to his nomination of Garland – after which the nomination will be withdrawn – a day that well precedes November 8th.

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The most honorable solution might be for Garland to withdraw his nomination after Clinton is elected. G. would then avoid getting trashed further by the GOP brigade, take Obama off the hook, and leave Clinton with an interesting choice.

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The most honorable solution would be for the Republican senators to do their jobs.

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GOP dies burning in slow motion agony.

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While welcome, this is a far weaker statement than what Reid has been saying.
For all those commenters who spent the last seven years moaning about what a wuss Harry was, you are in for some big regrets.

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Schumer says this like it actually makes a damn difference.

These freaks have no moral compass. They aren’t merely impervious to hypocrisy, duplicity, and undercutting their own argument, they regularly use things things as political tools. They are not encumbered by what they might have to say tomorrow, and have no concern with being consistent.

Any member of the rank-and-file that puts party allegiance over the good of the nation will not be moved. They can count on it.

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I have thoughts of Obama calling their bluff by agreeing to a lame duck hearing and at the last minute substituting one of his more liberal choices.

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I agree to some extent. The point is to get the public to not re-elect these assholes who live off the public test and won’t even do their job.

Fire the GOP.

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I have thoughts of Obama calling their bluff by agreeing to a lame duck hearing and at the last minute substituting one of his more liberal choices.

Egg meet face.

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Yes, absolutely. It is not the party faithful who decides elections. It’s the 10% or so in the middle who can go either way. How there could be undecided in this cycle escapes me, but nonetheless there are.

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Schumer, Joe “six pack” Biden, and Obama himself were all about no votes during a lame duck final year when it suited them, and now that HE is the lame…duck, well, ITS AN OUTRAGE!!! LMAO! Lame Duck…how fitting!!

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sorry… but you just used “honorable” and “Republican” in the same sentence…
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