rightwinger
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We are talking about leaving a Supreme Court seat open for well over a yearVery trueNot my problem. The problem belongs to the Democrats.
Oh, this is a major GOP fuck up. They reacted too strongly, limiting their options and forcing themselves onto only one path. They could have simply rejected any individual candidate that Obama nominated and gotten the same result. Plus had plenty of wiggle room.
But in the current clusterfuck that is the Grand Old Party, even the possibility of compromise is anathema. So they just defined their legacy: party above principle. Party above the nation. Party above anything.
And that's how the GOP will be remembered.
Republicans overplayed their hand
Rather than let it play out and voicing specific issues with the candidate, McConnell made it clear it was Obama who he objected to
Blatant partisan politics
Utterly. They're in full panic mode. The party is in tatters, they have a reality star as their front runner with highest disapproval rating of any candidate....ever. And their debates have devolved into creative ways of calling each other liars.
And like political amateurs, they limit their options, take the most extreme, restrictive position possible.....and have no exit strategy. Worse, they removed even a possibility of a historical narrative for their party's tenure under Obama as anything other than hysteric partisan obstructionists who put their own political ambitions above the needs of the country.
What will happen as case after case comes back 4-4 and Republicans are sitting on a qualified candidate......in an election year?
In reality it probably won't happen all that often. When it does happen, the case that ends in a tie vote reverts back to the decision of the lower court from which it was passed. All ado about very little.
I neutralizes the highest court in the land and defers to lower courts. We have a Supreme Court for a reason....to make the tough calls
Republicans would be breaking new ground. Ground which says don't approve a Supreme Court justice until you have a President from your party
If Republicans sit on this nomination for 15 months, what prevents Democrats from sitting on a Republican nomination for 24 months?