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Fast-forward to Republicans whining, "WAH WAH WAH!!!! Why'd we follow McConnell?!??!?!?"
Besides, you're really helping us on some key cases like ABORTION. Good job!!!!!
Go ahead - keep waving that victory flag!!! In an election year no less......
And again.... What other important issues have you decided to forfeit?
• Affirmative Action
• Voting Rights
• Immigration
• Contraception
You keep supporting what the R's are doing. They can't possibly win those cases with another Sotomayor/Kagan type judge on the court. With only 8 judges, maybe they'll get some 4-4 votes and hope for an R prez come next year.
For those of you rambling about how the Senate is to 'advise' the President about whom he may nominate, or even if he may nominate, here is an interesting article from the Heritage Foundation from 2005:
I found this paragraph going to the heart of the matter:
"The practice of the first President and Senate supported the construction of the Appointments Clause that reserves the act of nomination exclusively to the President. In requesting confirmation of his first nominee, President Washington sent the Senate this message: "I nominate William Short, Esquire, and request your advice on the propriety of appointing him." The Senate then notified the President of Short's confirmation, which showed that they too regarded "advice" as a postnomination rather than a prenomination function: "Resolved, that the President of the United States be informed, that the Senate advise and consent to his appointment of William Short Esquire. . . ."
The Senate has continued to use this formulation to the present day. Washington wrote in his diary that Thomas Jefferson and John Jay agreed with him that the Senate's powers "extend no farther than to an approbation or disapprobation of the person nominated by the President, all the rest being Executive and vested in the President by the Constitution." Washington's construction of the Appointments Clause has been embraced by his successors."
"or even if he may nominate"
I DON'T believe ANY serious has said he CANNOT nominate anyone he wants.
"The Senate has continued to use this formulation to the present day."
Except when we had the 6th and 10th Presidents. So much for following that "formulation"!
"Ferd,
John Quincy Adams and John Tyler both had SCOTUS nominees who were not voted on.
at a minimum 450 judicial nominess have not received votes and did not withdraw. That is the most likely disposition of a presidential nominee other than confirmation.
Further I have quoted Article and Paragraph of the constitution that shows 2 things
1. The Senate sets its own rules, and that includes what Advice and Consent looks like.
2. The Senate does not have to hold a vote, to provide Advice and Consent."
Hmmm... I'm not seeing it. The R Senate is taking one of the several options available to them in the nomination process.
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.
ROFL!
Of course you don't see it, you agree with their feet stomping. You clearly don't understand how politics work....
No one has even expressed a remote interest in reversing Roe v Wade. What are you inanely babbling about?
See... that's the problem with not keeping up on what's going on in the real world.
Scalia was very much in opposition to R vs Wade, he was consistently a dissenter in the challenges that came before the courts, in 1992 and 2007, both votes were 5-4. He felt that abortion should be left up to the states.
Hmmm... I'm not seeing it. The R Senate is taking one of the several options available to them in the nomination process.
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.
ROFL!
And what's going to be your spin on it this fall when the Republipunks lose the Senate over this? Got a news flash for you - just because every single person who calls in to Rush Limbaugh every day is in support of this crap doesn't mean the majority of Americans in general share that view. The fact is, the voters as a whole say (by about a 2-1 margin) that this is not what they want, and that the Republipunks are going too far. 2 to 1.
Maybe if I put it into different terms for you.... Another way of putting that is that if you hold up one finger on your right hand, and two fingers on your left hand, the left hand is showing twice as many fingers. If that helps you comprehend the mathematical realities we're discussing here.
So yeah. Go ahead and overplay your mandate. Poking your own eyeballs out is what the Republican party is best at, so yeah. Go for it. This'll be funny to watch.
Of course you don't see it, you agree with their feet stomping.
The only people stomping their feet on this are Dems. I say if they didn't want to be put in the position of depending on an R majority Senate for an Obama SCOTUS nominee confirmation, they should have acted more responsibly for the American people and not lost the Senate.
And what's going to be your spin on it this fall when the Republipunks lose the Senate over this?
They won't.
Obamacare is going to be even more painful this year than last, and by November the pain will be acute. Guess who the American electorate blames for that?
Obamacare is going to be even more painful this year than last, and by November the pain will be acute. Guess who the American electorate blames for that?
Another deflection. Some articles from last year about Obamacare, which have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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