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Sure, you should play the cards you have. You shouldn't just accept a nominee because he or she is put out there for the position.
This discussion is not going to end well. I see it being a "you hate the nominee because Obama..."
If Obama wants to nominate someone like Orin Hatch, I'm sure the senate will confirm.
But we all know Obama is not interested in putting someone like that on the bench. Instead he is going to pick some young underqualfied liberal like the wise latina.
He already has a short list, just hoping that something like this or a retirement was going to occur. It is a list of the whos who of liberal activism.
No, the Senate will just be "busy" like it was when Harry Reid permanently delayed the 300+ House bills sent to the Senate.
Harry Reid never permanently delayed a Bush SCOTUS appointment. To draw symmetry between an ordinary bill and a Supreme Court appointment is dishonest.
Obama will nominate a moderate that was unanimously placed on one of the Circuit courts and the ball will be in the Senate GOP's court. They'll either look like fools blocking this person, or this person will be seated and it will be addition by subtraction in getting rid of staunchly conservative Scalia and his 18th century worldview.
This is the best course of action for Obama. If he thinks deeply about it, and puts someone like that in front of the GOP Senate, and they refuse to confirm them....it could very well cost them not only the White House, but other seats that are up this year as well. GOP would be wise not to obstruct this, it would drive home the Dems point that all they are is the party of 'No."
If Obama wants to nominate someone like Orin Hatch, I'm sure the senate will confirm.
But we all know Obama is not interested in putting someone like that on the bench. Instead he is going to pick some young underqualfied liberal like the wise latina.
He already has a short list, just hoping that something like this or a retirement was going to occur. It is a list of the whos who of liberal activism.
By your viewpoint, any liberal is unqualified by definition. I challenge you to PROVE that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, is unqualified. She graduated from Yale Law School and Princeton University, and was a Federal district judge who was recommended for a spot by Democratic New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Republican Al D'Amato.
So, what makes her unqualified, her being a woman, a liberal, or Hispanic?
The Senate confirmed 17 SCOTUS justices in election years in the past. Most were voted on within months. So why is THIS president making an appointment in his last year different from any that came before him?
Well, obviously because his last name starts with the letter O....
Harry Reid never permanently delayed a Bush SCOTUS appointment. To draw symmetry between an ordinary bill and a Supreme Court appointment is dishonest.
They're both Constitutionally-mandated Senatorial duties, no?
If Dems don't like the delay, delay, delay game, they shouldn't have let Harry Reid get away with it.
This is the best course of action for Obama. If he thinks deeply about it, and puts someone like that in front of the GOP Senate, and they refuse to confirm them....it could very well cost them not only the White House, but other seats that are up this year as well. GOP would be wise not to obstruct this, it would drive home the Dems point that all they are is the party of 'No."
Yes, a good nine months of irrational obstruction will only work in the Democrats favor. And I fully expect the GOP will be stupid enough to give that to us. Anything other than allowing the president and the Senate to fulfill their Constitutional duties is a losing proposition for the GOP.
Obama should simply nominate the candidate of his choice and then sit back and let the GOP do what they do best, make asses of themselves. It's worked well for the president in the past.
Both Rubio and Jeff Sessions stated that no lame duck president has appointed a supreme court justice in their final year yet Kennedy was nominated by Reagan in his last year of office, what are they missing.
And he did so only about an hour after Scalia's death was confirmed. The two parties aren't the same right now, folks.
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