GOP rejects comparisons to Reagan’s late-term SCOTUS nominee

[jillian]

These people simply refuse to govern. Time to send the lot of them packing, again...

“It doesn’t really matter what they’ve done, what Reagan did back in ‘87. It was in ‘87 when he nominated him, so obviously it was still earlier in the year. If this was November, October or September of last year where the president had more than a year left in office, then perhaps this would be a different discussion,” Rubio said."
GOP rejects comparisons to Reagan's late-term SCOTUS nominee

"On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year."
Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year

The timing changes nothing. Obama still has just shy of a year in office, boys.

they live in a fantasy world

Not the fantasy world you live in thinking Obama is a good president, and can make a good decision. His foreign policy is proof.

he's neither great nor terrible. that's the rightwingnut loon fantasy world. if domestically things improved this dramatically under a republican president, the right would be doing hosannas;

he was dealt the hand he was dealt on foreign policy by his truly awful predecessor. the problem is you loons can't be honest and discuss the good and bad... or acknowledge that the wingers in the House and Senate obstructed everything this president tried to do.

now be a good boy and run along.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You invented Borking, now you have to live with it. As they say payback is a barack

this needs emphasized !!

Bork got a Senate vote, dummies. 42-58.
Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You let that fat fucking murderer Ted Kennedy corrupt the process, it was your Party that decided to impose an ideological litmus test to get on SCOTUS.

 

[jillian]

i don't think he'll do a recess appointment even if he could. it is better to have the discussion for the next 10 months be obstructionist loons on the right, imo.

Better politics, not better for the court.

well, no. the justices have to have a certain level of legitimacy that comes from being vetted. that is better for the court as an institution. if the GOP doesn't want to do it's job, then it will eventually get done. if not by a republican senate and democratic president, then by a democratic senate and president.

let them push their luck. i think it's disgusting and unprecedented but that hasn't stopped these people for the last seven years.

Tissue??

i'm not the butthurt loon defending the senate not doing their job.

forgive me for not hating this country and it's court like you rightwingnut loons.

The federal government is a world of shit and piss, what's not hate??

thanks for the rightwingnut insanity.

 

[Rustic]

The sooner the federal government burns, the better...

 

[jillian]

Barry has made his bed, now has to sleep in it.
With Barry being such an unreasonable guy, he has damaged all of the little trust that those who disagreed with Him had in him.
Obamacare being an living hell for millions is one such thing, it was done compleatly underhanded. Typical of career politicians and their federal government.

Fuck the "It takes a village mentality"
Lol

Barry does his job wrong so now the Senate should do the same? You really want to take that position?

The senate is full of career politicians, their judgement would not be any different... Shitty.
It's best to start over and wait for the next president to pick their own corrupt SCJ... And let the games begin.

Barry is damaged goods, and yesterday's news...
Stop living in the past, it looks bad on ya...

Your willingness to pay people for not doing their jobs, or not being allowed to, is noted. Personally, I oppose that.

Since when is being a politician a job? Career politicians are the lowest of life forms.
Single Term limits would make it an duty, like it was originally supposed to be.
Too late for that I guess, there needs to be a lot more fighting.

*yawn*

i'm sorry you hate your country. i think you should live elsewhere.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Back op OP:


"On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year."
Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year

REAGAN NOMINATES ANTHONY KENNEDY TO SUPREME COURT
By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Special to the New York Times
Published: November 12, 1987
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11— President Reagan, stung by the failure of two nominations to the Supreme Court in the last three weeks, today nominated Judge Anthony M. Kennedy and expressed the hope that he could be confirmed quickly in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation"
REAGAN NOMINATES ANTHONY KENNEDY TO SUPREME COURT

 

[jillian]

The sooner the federal government burns, the better...

poor treasonous loon

 

[PaintMyHouse]

The sooner the federal government burns, the better...

Your trolling has been reported. Shut it.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

When a critical person dies in office, his vacancy is filled. There should be a recess appointment ASAP, and new nominee named almost as quickly.

i don't think he'll do a recess appointment even if he could. it is better to have the discussion for the next 10 months be obstructionist loons on the right, imo.

Better politics, not better for the court.

well, no. the justices have to have a certain level of legitimacy that comes from being vetted. that is better for the court as an institution. if the GOP doesn't want to do it's job, then it will eventually get done. if not by a republican senate and democratic president, then by a democratic senate and president.

let them push their luck. i think it's disgusting and unprecedented but that hasn't stopped these people for the last seven years.

Playing non-stop politics is why the voters are pissed off. Enough, let's get on with the work...

i'm with you. the senate should approve his nominee if qualified. THAT is what is non-political.

but they've already said that they won't allow any vote. so he should nominate someone and let them look like idiots. him doing a recess appointment, even if legal, looks iffy and will really confuse voters and make them uncomfortable, imo.

So you were against the treatment of both Bork and Thomas?

Yeah?

 

[jknowgood]

These people simply refuse to govern. Time to send the lot of them packing, again...

“It doesn’t really matter what they’ve done, what Reagan did back in ‘87. It was in ‘87 when he nominated him, so obviously it was still earlier in the year. If this was November, October or September of last year where the president had more than a year left in office, then perhaps this would be a different discussion,” Rubio said."
GOP rejects comparisons to Reagan's late-term SCOTUS nominee

"On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year."
Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year

The timing changes nothing. Obama still has just shy of a year in office, boys.

they live in a fantasy world

Not the fantasy world you live in thinking Obama is a good president, and can make a good decision. His foreign policy is proof.

he's neither great nor terrible. that's the rightwingnut loon fantasy world. if domestically things improved this dramatically under a republican president, the right would be doing hosannas;

he was dealt the hand he was dealt on foreign policy by his truly awful predecessor. the problem is you loons can't be honest and discuss the good and bad... or acknowledge that the wingers in the House and Senate obstructed everything this president tried to do.

now be a good boy and run along.

He wanted the job and knew what he was getting into. He promised he would fix everything, but has made it worse after seven years. Carter is a very happy man.

 

[Rustic]

Barry has made his bed, now has to sleep in it.
With Barry being such an unreasonable guy, he has damaged all of the little trust that those who disagreed with Him had in him.
Obamacare being an living hell for millions is one such thing, it was done compleatly underhanded. Typical of career politicians and their federal government.

Fuck the "It takes a village mentality"
Lol

Barry does his job wrong so now the Senate should do the same? You really want to take that position?

The senate is full of career politicians, their judgement would not be any different... Shitty.
It's best to start over and wait for the next president to pick their own corrupt SCJ... And let the games begin.

Barry is damaged goods, and yesterday's news...
Stop living in the past, it looks bad on ya...

Your willingness to pay people for not doing their jobs, or not being allowed to, is noted. Personally, I oppose that.

Since when is being a politician a job? Career politicians are the lowest of life forms.
Single Term limits would make it an duty, like it was originally supposed to be.
Too late for that I guess, there needs to be a lot more fighting.

*yawn*

i'm sorry you hate your country. i think you should live elsewhere.

There can not be a larger difference between the country and the federal government. It makes sense to hate the federal government.
The federal government is made up of career politicians like Barry, filled with hate for the country. And their puppet masters, the ones behind the curtain.
The federal government is composed mostly of a bunch of fuck ups in the form of career politicians and control freaks in charge of the puppet strings.
Lol

 

[Rustic]

The sooner the federal government burns, the better...

Your trolling has been reported. Shut it.

Tissue??

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Next president will select the new justice.

 

[Rustic]

Next president will select the new justice.

As it should be...

 

[NYcarbineer]

These people simply refuse to govern. Time to send the lot of them packing, again...

“It doesn’t really matter what they’ve done, what Reagan did back in ‘87. It was in ‘87 when he nominated him, so obviously it was still earlier in the year. If this was November, October or September of last year where the president had more than a year left in office, then perhaps this would be a different discussion,” Rubio said."
GOP rejects comparisons to Reagan's late-term SCOTUS nominee

"On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year."
Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year

The timing changes nothing. Obama still has just shy of a year in office, boys.

No hurry, wait for the next president to select their corrupt SCJ... Barry is damaged goods...

No hurry. The 8 member court is going to translate into several big wins for the left, particularly with labor cases.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Next president will select the new justice.

As it should be...

lol, I would bet a thousand dollars you wouldn't say that if this were the last year of a GOP president with a GOP majority in the Senate.

 

[Rustic]

Next president will select the new justice.

As it should be...

lol, I would bet a thousand dollars you wouldn't say that if this were the last year of a GOP president with a GOP majority in the Senate.

The Supreme Court has been in the pocket of career politicians and their puppet masters for decades...
Having a guy heading out the door picking someone makes no sense, a fuck up like Barry just needs to leave and not let the door hit him in the ass.

 

[Disir]

Let 'em. Right now they are rejecting everything and searching for some type of justification.

And there is a hell of a lot of finger pointing.

Look if the issue that is repeated is going to be the Democrats pulled these shenanigans before and this justifies this crap now then let the Democrats 'fess up and own it.

Take it away from them.

You're dealing with people that don't like Roberts because of one issue. That message came from the top. The very same people that know better. A twisted Nancy Grace act.

AND Schumer was an asswipe. Made an asswipe comment that was prevented from putting into action only because of the lack of opportunity. It's ok to say Schumer was an asswipe. Still is for several other reasons.

Right now, the Republicans have nothing. Nothing. Whole lot of elections coming up and a whole lot of nonsensical drama. I was hoping that the neoliberals in the Democrat Party could be run out but apparently the GOP is going to burn itself to the ground first and hand it to the Democrats--which are Republican-lite.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

These people simply refuse to govern. Time to send the lot of them packing, again...

“It doesn’t really matter what they’ve done, what Reagan did back in ‘87. It was in ‘87 when he nominated him, so obviously it was still earlier in the year. If this was November, October or September of last year where the president had more than a year left in office, then perhaps this would be a different discussion,” Rubio said."
GOP rejects comparisons to Reagan's late-term SCOTUS nominee

"On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year."
Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year

The timing changes nothing. Obama still has just shy of a year in office, boys.

No hurry, wait for the next president to select their corrupt SCJ... Barry is damaged goods...

There is a great deal of hurry actually, and no rational reason in hell why we should wait to have a full court again, as a soon as possible. If anything, the process should be sped up, not slowed down.

What business is currently before the court that if not ruled on in short order would cause such great harm?

 

[Rustic]

These people simply refuse to govern. Time to send the lot of them packing, again...

“It doesn’t really matter what they’ve done, what Reagan did back in ‘87. It was in ‘87 when he nominated him, so obviously it was still earlier in the year. If this was November, October or September of last year where the president had more than a year left in office, then perhaps this would be a different discussion,” Rubio said."
GOP rejects comparisons to Reagan's late-term SCOTUS nominee

"On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year."
Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year

The timing changes nothing. Obama still has just shy of a year in office, boys.

No hurry, wait for the next president to select their corrupt SCJ... Barry is damaged goods...

There is a great deal of hurry actually, and no rational reason in hell why we should wait to have a full court again, as a soon as possible. If anything, the process should be sped up, not slowed down.

What business is currently before the court that if not ruled on in short order would cause such great harm?

Crickets...