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The only ones stomping their feet are you, McConnell, and the Republicans.
Hmmm... I'm not seeing it. The R Senate is taking one of the several options available to them in the nomination process.
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The Democrats and Obama will just wait them out while publicly shaming them...
Now, that's just funny.
You apparently didn't get the memo that the American electorate gave both the House and the Senate to the majority Rs because they were dissatisfied with Obama's and the Dems' actions.
I don't think you understand the makeup of the senate, 60 votes is required.
Sure doesn't seem that way... Remember the 300+ House bills Harry Reid never even presented to the Senate for a vote during the Obama Admin? Not a single vote required to table a bill, nomination, whatever...
Reagan and Obama were both very popular when elected but you would never hear a senate leader state that they would do everything to obstruct Reagans programs and make him a one term president, that is why we can't get anything done.
I'd say there is no comparison at all. Reagan was far more popular. This is the electoral map when Reagan was re-elected. Compare that to Obama's. Congress was scared to death of Reagan.
This is what a strong President looks like. Obama isn't it.
"Nobody who has worked hard to be a respected jurist should have to ruin a life and a career over a political food fight."
"Who does that leave? Someone who will mobilize and energize Democrats and inspire centrists and moderates. Someone accustomed to the bright lights of cable news and someone who doesn’t mind being flattened down to an election-year cartoon."
"It will spare a really great and tender judge the humiliation of being a political football and perhaps serve to get out the vote in November. This is less a trick than a pivot, a nonconstitutional response to a nonconstitutional impasse."
We all know SCOTUS appointments are all about politics.
Let's quit pretending it's a rarified debate over the Constitution and get on with it.
Democrats: "Wah... wah... WAH!!!... The Republicans can't do what WE did! It's not F-A-I-R!!! WAAAAAAAHHH!!!... "
When did the Democrats EVER preemptively say, "We're not even going to hold a hearing on the President's nominee?"
The Republicans are trying to disenfranchise the millions of Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Plain and simple. No amount of Fox News spin and diatribes change the facts.
That was supposed to say for the sake* of delay. Well it says RIGHT THERE Obama is supposed to appoint a judge, the senates approval is there for checks and balances not for the petty wills of the frog faced monster mcconell. Which brings me to my next point, are you supposed to be a human being to be in the senate? Not some science project gone wrong?
If you want to engage in civil ADULT conversation, I will oblige you.
On the other hand you want engage in silly juvenile name calling because you aren't getting you way, I suggest you go to some site wheer other with of your lack of decorum play.
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