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Senate Plans to Follow Biden’s Advice on Supreme Court Vacancy

Posted: Feb 23, 2016

Gotta love that man! LOL;

Biden said "Pres. Bush should consider following the - practice of the majority of his

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predecessors and not name a nominee until the November election is completed."

Senate Republicans need to start making speeches on the Senate floor and elsewhere paraphrasing Democrats, just use the same words they used when blocking Republican nominees and substitute the new names and parties.

Good first choices are Ted Kenedy's speech during the Bork hearing and Chuck Schumer and Biden, "Senate should block any Bush nominees" speeches.

Given the high popularity of socialism and the - unpopularity of the rule of law

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and the separation of powers (all three branches being equal), I doubt if this matters. Too bad the media doesn't do its job.

Obama's strategy will be to nominate a woman or minority, - then scream racism when the

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GOP doesn't confirm. Pure election year politics.

Politics indeed. Obama will nominate a candidate the GOP - will like just to get the Senate to

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back down on their “absolutely no hearings” stance.

Then, just like Clinton’s first two AG picks, some fatal flaw would be leaked....failure to pay SS taxes on a nanny or somesuch thing and the person will be forced to withdraw.

I don't think such an obvious ruse will fool anyone - on the Judicial Committee.

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...and in fact, the possibility of the Committee being tempted by a "poison pill nomination" has already been quashed.

...and besides, the minute a moderate name was mentioned - like Nevada Gov Sandoval...

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...a former federal judge and a pro-choice Hispanic, it wasn't the conservatives but liberals - including Hillary Clinton herself - who set up an immediate howl of protest over the idea even before Sandoval said he wasn't interested in the nomination.

Sandoval is not a moderate. He is a RINO. - Native Nevadan

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IMHO.

It will be some kind of ploy to make the Republicans - seem unreasonable.

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As usual.

The "Trump phenomenon" seems to be putting some spine - into the Republicans.

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The neocons in Congress were the ones who created Trump by their spinelessness and broken promises, allowing Obama to take the nation to a state of economic decay, indebtdness, social unrest, racial division, diminished global influence and outright scorn that we have never experienced since the birth of this nation.

Conservative voters, who are thoroughly PO'd at party leaders, are speaking loudly and clearly in the primaries. This has not gone unnoticed in DC, and if McConnell allows the Committee to hold hearings after saying "there's not a snowball's chance in Hell" that hearings will be conducted, it could very well spell the end of the Republican party.

The line in the sand has been drawn right here in no uncertain manner by grassroot conservatives, and the party leaders know that they are absolutely on notice. This is their last chance, and after that it's the axe for every one of them.

Perhaps he should pick Leland Yee, a Democrat for staunch - gun control laws, who is under

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investigation for a conspiracy to traffic weapons, among other things.

"The allegations against State Sen. Leland Yee were outlined in an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint. The affidavit accuses Yee of conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and to illegally import firearms. He was arrested Wednesday.

Yee is also accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and cash payments to provide introductions, help a client get a contract and influence legislation. He or members of his campaign staff accepted at least $42,800 in cash or campaign contributions from undercover FBI agents in exchange for carrying out the agents’ specific requests, the court documents allege. Yee discussed helping the agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder fired automatic weapons and missiles, and took him through the entire process of acquiring them from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines to bringing them to the United States, according to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua.

He was unhappy with his life and told the agent he wanted to hide out in the Philippines, according to the affidavit."

He should be tried under terrorism laws; including - automatic weapons AND MISSILES.

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The rest of us would be.

What in the world does this have to do with anything - in this topic thread??

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Sounds reasonable to me, given Fast and Furious and - Eric Holder, Obama administration.

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Yep, fits right in.

And it will probably work and the Republicans will cave. - That's why we have Trump.

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Because of the lack of spine in the Republican party.

Excellent. The "Biden Rule" is no SCOTUS nominations - during an election year. sm

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Of course, now he's trying to back off that.

Is there ANYONE in DC who has PRINCIPLES that they live by, or are principles merely a matter of what is convenient for me politically right now?

It never happened though - did it

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Just like hopefully it will never happen now.

Bringing this stuff up ad nauseam would make sense if it actually ever happened.

Integrity: I'll take a lot more of it on both sides. - Integrity means....sm

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...that your positions don't blow around with the wind of popular opinion or political convenience.

This is something you notice about people with integrity: Their beliefs sometimes require them to do things that aren't in their own best interest, or that aren't "convenient", and sometimes even things that cost them dearly.

Principles are principles; they aren't negotiable and they aren't ephemeral. They're the pillars on which an honorable life is constructed.

Biden and Obama - at different times - have expressed the belief that there should be no SCOTUS nominations during an election year. If they have the slightest shred of character, let them stick to that position regardless of what others might have done, and regardless of whether the position happens to be politically inconvenient now that the shoe is on the other foot.

Obama, I don't expect it because I've never suffered from any delusions about his character; he has none whatsoever. But Biden - I did think he still had the spark of honor. Perhaps 7+ years with Obama has snuffed it out.

The video of this is on You Tube. Biden had real hair - then, too. Not plugs.

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Zombie hypocrites. The rules are always different for - Democrats. Computers have made

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it easy to look up things they've said/done in the past.

Obama said virtually the same thing before he became - president. That's on YouTtube

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as well.

Heck, I think he tried to filibuster a nomination - citing the same argument.

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He says he "regrets" doing that now. Payback is a B.

That was Alito. The Republicans should re-read everything - Obama said about filibustering

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Alito on the Senate floor. Obama just says things like "I've evolved on the issues" and he gets away with it.

You're right about payback. And everything about Obama is a regret.

Oh integrity, integrity, can it be said in the same - breath as Mitch McConnell?

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I think not.

Here is your beloved leader McConnell back in 1970 when a student (presumably with integrity - at least back then) and then also in 1987 and 2005 when he accused the Democrats of TRYING to do what he is now DOING. BTW they just tried, they didn't do it. So what about his principles re the constitution?

[Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is leading the obstructionist charge. But his opposition to late-term judicial appointments appears to be a recent development. The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman dug up a paper written by McConnell when he was law student at the University of Kentucky in 1970. “At the outset, the Senate should discount the philosophy of the nominee,” he wrote. “The president is presumably elected by the people to carry out a program and altering the ideological directions of the Supreme Court would seem to be a perfectly legitimate part of a presidential platform.”

The senator also voted to confirm justice Anthony Kennedy in Feb. 1988, the final year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. And in 2005, in response to Democratic opposition to a number of George W. Bush’s appointments to federal appellate courts, he pined to The Los Angeles Times for Senate traditions of old: “up-or-down votes on the president’s nominee, no matter who the president is, no matter who’s in control of the Senate.”]

Hmmm, up-or-down votes, the ones he is not even going to allow to come to the floor now you mean? So that's a lot of integrity to swallow I think. Principles, right. Character, right.

Mitch McConnell is the very epitome of a spineless and nasty piece of garbage who has made himself into a multimillionaire somehow while a senator, and he leads the senate. His FORMER principles are now out the window obviously. Hardly an honorable life at all.

McConnell is not liked by his own party. No one ever - said he has integrity. Trump's

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rise is due to the establishment GOP. They don't represent us.

Nice try though.

I hope McConnell stands his ground on this. The GOP - certain has caved in the past.

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I hope they don't this time.

Maybe what happened to Jeb has finally gotten - his attention. They were clueless

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to the level of anger out here for their failure to stop Obama.

Except McConnell, before Justice Scalia was - cold almost, started obstructing

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Just like he held the meeting even before President Obama got inaugurated to tell every Republican to obstruct everything.

The thing about the constitution (and yes, integrity) is that if you are going to call yourself constitutional conservatives, that doesn't actually mean you get to call what the constitution means. It does mean that you hold the constitution to the highest level of law, and I wouldn't think you would therefore go and try to twist it when it doesn't agree with your goal to simply obstruct the president.

Nope, the right is wrong on this and I hope the voters realize it. We voted for this President. We want him to decide. He has nearly a year left in office. That is more than enough time to choose another justice, and to my mind President Obama often picks many right of center candidates, which I think he would do in this instance, seeing as how he has to deal with the intransigent tea party senate and congress members.

I think they should at least allow him to put forth candidates. If the majority of them reject them that's another story, at least that's constitutional. You know, like when Bush tried to put in his Sunday school teacher or whoever that was.

As soon as I saw this story in the news, I thought of - what Clarence Thomas wrote

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about his Supreme Court confirmation process in his autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son."

He made it pretty clear that he thought Joe Biden was the most detestable member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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