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McConnell: No Vote on Supreme Court Nominee Even if Democrat Wins Presidency
Topic Started: Mar 21 2016, 08:21 AM (946 Views)
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Connell: No Vote on Supreme Court Nominee Even if Democrat Wins Presidency

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doubled down on his insistence that Republicans would not consider President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court this year. Even if it seems that the next president could pick someone the Republicans would like even less, McConnell is adamant his fellow party members won’t budge on Merrick Garland. "I can't imagine that a Republican-majority Congress, in a lame-duck session, after the American people have spoken would want to confirm a nominee opposed by the NRA, the NFIB and that the New York Times says would move the Court dramatically to the left," McConnell told CNN.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/20/mcconnell_says_republicans_won_t_vote_for_supreme_court_nominee_after_election.html
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I'm stunned. The Senate is controlled by special interests groups.
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John Roberts Criticized Supreme Court Confirmation Process, Before There Was a Vacancy

WASHINGTON — Last month, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. delivered some blunt remarks about the Supreme Court confirmation process. The Senate should ensure that nominees are qualified, he said, and leave politics out of it.

The chief justice spoke 10 days before Justice Antonin Scalia died, and he could not have known how timely and telling his comments would turn out to be. They now amount to a stern, if abstract, rebuke to the Republican senators who refuse to hold hearings on President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland.


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When the conservative Chief Justice knocks his plan, McConnell looks like Boehner. What a pussy!
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Too bad, George. No vote for you. Roberts can kiss McConnel's ass on this one.
"The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it."
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McConnell continues to make an excellent case for why the American people should put him out of a job.
"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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Mar 21 2016, 08:42 AM
Too bad, George. No vote for you. Roberts can kiss McConnel's ass on this one.
If you understood anything about the history of Supreme Court appointments, you'd realize that Roberts is quite correct.
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Mar 21 2016, 08:42 AM
Too bad, George. No vote for you. Roberts can kiss McConnel's ass on this one.
Thank you for your sympathy. Personally, I'd rather see the seat kept open until President Hilary gets to appoint Al Sharpton and he is confirmed by the Democratic Senate next year.
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This is the best thing he has done since he has been there.
"The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it."
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I don't care what Roberts has to say.
"The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it."
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Mar 21 2016, 08:24 AM
I'm stunned. The Senate is controlled by special interests groups.
Obama has pushed that cobbled up mess of a Senate into a corner.
They are going to be held responsible where it counts, the ballot box.


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A politicians are controlled by special interests, ya goofballs.
"The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it."
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Mar 21 2016, 08:53 AM
McConnell continues to make an excellent case for why the American people should put him out of a job.
I don't think the people of Kentucky will vote him out

but it is the height of stupidity to paint himself into a corner on ever accepting this nominee

it may be the best nominee we can hope for in the next 4 1/2 years

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Mar 21 2016, 10:42 AM
Two a.m.
Mar 21 2016, 08:53 AM
McConnell continues to make an excellent case for why the American people should put him out of a job.
I don't think the people of Kentucky will vote him out

but it is the height of stupidity to paint himself into a corner on ever accepting this nominee

it may be the best nominee we can hope for in the next 4 1/2 years

He can get away with this because he just recently was reelected and isn't up for any vote anytime soon.
It is his colleagues that are being put on the spot, by him.


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Mar 21 2016, 10:22 AM
A politicians are controlled by special interests, ya goofballs.
There is near-universal agreement that politicians are controlled by special interests and that this is a bad thing. Why is this so? Because the special interests supply the huge amounts of money which each politician needs to win election. Take private money out of elections and the special interests lose their power. Is it possible to run elections without hundreds of millions in cash bribes? How do other advanced democracies get around this problem?

Everyone complains about slicing the vegetables yet no one thinks of sharpening the knife. The water isn't going to clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek. Do I make myself clear?
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Awesome. McConnel doesn't want to go out totally hated by conservatives from the looks of it.
"The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it."
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Mar 21 2016, 11:42 AM
Awesome. McConnel doesn't want to go out totally hated by conservatives from the looks of it.
McConnell has Boehner's problem: the Liberty Caucus types don't want an agreement, they want a target. Boehner made deal after deal with them but they jump ship at the first chance because their goal is to govern the Congress and the nation with absolute power. Even DeMint bailed out because he found it impossible to govern with people who will not accept compromise of any sort.

These right wingers are destroying the GOP. The party can rebuild, but only if a total, crushing defeat in November allows the centrists to rebuild in the relatively calm backwater of a minority party. The TEA Party dream of a conservative government as they define it is never going to happen. The conservative extremists are a minority within a minority. Trump can't get a majority of his own party to back him, much less win a national election.
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The GOP needs to be destroyed if it is at odds with liberty and the people who have been voting for them.
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Mar 21 2016, 12:00 PM
The GOP needs to be destroyed if it is at odds with liberty and the people who have been voting for them.
The first well thought out comment from you yet.

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Mar 21 2016, 11:52 AM
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Mar 21 2016, 11:42 AM
Awesome. McConnel doesn't want to go out totally hated by conservatives from the looks of it.
McConnell has Boehner's problem: the Liberty Caucus types don't want an agreement, they want a target. Boehner made deal after deal with them but they jump ship at the first chance because their goal is to govern the Congress and the nation with absolute power. Even DeMint bailed out because he found it impossible to govern with people who will not accept compromise of any sort.

These right wingers are destroying the GOP. The party can rebuild, but only if a total, crushing defeat in November allows the centrists to rebuild in the relatively calm backwater of a minority party. The TEA Party dream of a conservative government as they define it is never going to happen. The conservative extremists are a minority within a minority. Trump can't get a majority of his own party to back him, much less win a national election.
100% correct.
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