Discussion: Senate GOPers: There's Not Going To Be A Hearing For Obama's SCOTUS Nom

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You nasty little FKS. I never want to hear the words ā€˜American people’ out of your lying mouths again. EVER.

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I agree with Josh’s thesis that this is just the final stage of GOP de-legitimization of our first African-American president. Hands up, everyone who thinks our first woman president will receive better, more respectful treatment.

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Or that they stand by the constitution!

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Repilsive Party hack.

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Was Orrin talking from atop his high starched collar with steepled fingers on delicate white hands poking from crisp French cuffs like some mummified American Girl doll?

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So the do-nothing GOP Congress is going to … do nothing.

It’s hilarious that the GOP is giving the Dems this issue: Do you want to continue to have Senators and Reps that do nothing, OR is it time for a big change?

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Or that the media will ignore the blatant bypass of the Constitution by the GOP and go full false-equivalency, thus giving tacit approval of the heinous GOP’s action. Chuck Todd must be bursting with glee.

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Sessions is the guy whose nomination as a District judge was rejected by the Senate, so he has some emotional skin in the game.

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Obama should nominate someone seriously qualified that will seriously fuck the GOP with minority voters and then take that nominee on the road.

Just beat the GOP about the head and shoulders with it.

Lather, rinse and repeat. Make them pay until they bleed through their pores.

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"My view is there’s no need to have a hearing. Why should you have a hearing?
Sen. Jeff Sessions (W)

Oh, I don’t know.,…,because it’s your constitutional duty?

Senator Sessions went on to say this about President Obama:

ā€œHe’s Black, you know.ā€

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This will energize the GOP base. Until Hillary replaces 3 Justices over the next 3 years, and 2 more in the years afterwards.

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Great, a Mormon and a Southern cracker giving a dis to Obama. Makes one proud to be an American- not!!
Remember what they say about payback in the military…

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I don’t like being gruesome but a deep-down, bad part of me wants to see what they do if another conservative justice dies before November.

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I’d nominate alito…

The remaining 8 could drop dead and if Hillary won but failed to bring along a Senate majority we’d just have to go until January 2021 without SCOTUS.

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The ā€œbackfireā€ on this could be very profound. The republicans could lose control of the senate, the presidential race and in turn the mix of the court. The court could end up far more ā€œliberalā€ than it would with a current appointment .

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Sales of the 'I signed on for Rove’s 1,000 year majority but all I got was this lousy Tee-shirt!" are brisk at the Senate gift shop…

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My hope here is that if they choose to do nothing, that Justice Kennedy goes on a liberal ruling spree and then we get to watch them all flail with no way to fight it…

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Exploring the depths of Orrin’s and Jeff’s scuminess would be like scuba diving in a septic tank or Flint’s/Rio’s rivers.

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