Biden (D) in 1992: Sitting President Shouldn't Name SCOTUS Nominee "Once the Political Season is Underway" (Congress, Clinton)

[LoveToRow]

In which C-SPAN archivists drop a 20-megaton political warhead directly on Obama and the Democrats. The best part? Biden actually goes a little further than Republicans have gone this month in opposing an election-year replacement for Scalia. Not only doesn’t he want a vacancy filled, not only doesn’t he want the Judiciary Committee to even hold hearings on a nomination, he wants the president to decline making a nomination altogether. The current GOP line is that Obama has every right as president to offer a nomination, just as the Senate has every right to withhold its advice and consent. Biden 1992 wanted Bush 41 to keep any nominations in his pocket. Amazing.

Update: If you’re keeping score, this means that the current president, current vice president, current Senate minority leader, and incoming Senate minority leader have all gone on record in the past in favor of obstructing a Supreme Court nominee.

Link: Game over: Joe Biden says in 1992 that the president shouldn’t name a SCOTUS nominee “once the political season is underway” « Hot Air





Now what will our hypocritical friends on the left say and do?

[TrapperJohn]

Do as I say, not as I do.

[Retroit]

Love it!

[Northeastah]

would you be happy if the next president elected a SCOTUS, even if it were HRC?

careful what you wish for

[LoveToRow]

Originally Posted by Northeastah

would you be happy if the next president elected a SCOTUS, even if it were HRC?

careful what you wish for

Yes, Clinton couldn't pick a worse justice than the two twits Obama has already nominated.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Northeastah

would you be happy if the next president elected a SCOTUS, even if it were HRC?

careful what you wish for

She can`t even beat Crazy Bernie in a straight-up race, and that super delegate trick is gonna go over like a fart in church.


This should be the most fun election since a retreaded Mondale promised to raise taxes in 1984.

[michiganmoon]

If we are honest both sides are hypocrites on this issue going back decades.

And this includes Barack Obama himself and his main counterpart Mitch McConnell.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by LoveToRow

Biden (D) in 1992: Sitting President Shouldn't Name SCOTUS Nominee "Once the Political Season is Underway"?

Yes, the 'political season' is when Congress returns from the summer recess. This year it would start after September 30.

[fitzy24]

Originally Posted by michiganmoon

If we are honest both sides are hypocrites on this issue going back decades.

And this includes Barack Obama himself and his main counterpart Mitch McConnell.

I agree.

[Northeastah]

Originally Posted by michiganmoon

If we are honest both sides are hypocrites on this issue going back decades.

And this includes Barack Obama himself and his main counterpart Mitch McConnell.

exactly