Mitch McConnell Says Americans Won’t Tolerate Democrats Blocking Supreme Court Nominations

[rdean]

I heard Trump is going to nominate Judge Judy. No way he would nominate a Hispanic. We all know why.

 

[Borillar]

He blocked the president’s own high court nominee for 293 days.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a warning to Democrats on Wednesday, one day after the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garlandexpired without any Senate action: Don’t consider staging a similar blockade on any of President-elect Donald Trump’s high court nominees.

“I think that’s something the American people simply will not tolerate and we’ll be looking forward to receiving a Supreme Court nomination and moving forward on it,” McConnell told reporters.

His darts were aimed at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday that he’d do everything within his power to keep the Supreme Court seat open.

Schumer said on Wednesday that Democrats would oppose any “out-of-the-mainstream” Trump nominees — perhaps a nod to Garland, who was as mainstream a candidate as President Barack Obama could have offered.

McConnell’s admonition that the American public may not put up with prolonged Democratic obstruction is curious in light of his own plan to not lift a finger on any of Obama’s nominees ― a plan he shrewdly came up with on the day Justice Antonin Scalia died last February.

In the end, McConnell’s no-hearings-no-vote gamble paid off, and the Garland nomination died with the old Congress after 293 days — setting a modern record for Supreme Court nominees.

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McConnell takes hypocrisy to a new level.

Are you in favor of the seat being empty for at least over 720 days?

That is what Schumer is threatening, retard.

If it wasn't important enough to fill the position for nearly a year maybe we can do without it for the next few years.

 

[guno]

He blocked the president’s own high court nominee for 293 days.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a warning to Democrats on Wednesday, one day after the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garlandexpired without any Senate action: Don’t consider staging a similar blockade on any of President-elect Donald Trump’s high court nominees.

“I think that’s something the American people simply will not tolerate and we’ll be looking forward to receiving a Supreme Court nomination and moving forward on it,” McConnell told reporters.

His darts were aimed at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday that he’d do everything within his power to keep the Supreme Court seat open.

Schumer said on Wednesday that Democrats would oppose any “out-of-the-mainstream” Trump nominees — perhaps a nod to Garland, who was as mainstream a candidate as President Barack Obama could have offered.

McConnell’s admonition that the American public may not put up with prolonged Democratic obstruction is curious in light of his own plan to not lift a finger on any of Obama’s nominees ― a plan he shrewdly came up with on the day Justice Antonin Scalia died last February.

In the end, McConnell’s no-hearings-no-vote gamble paid off, and the Garland nomination died with the old Congress after 293 days — setting a modern record for Supreme Court nominees.

More: McConnell Says Americans Won’t Tolerate Democrats Blocking Supreme Court Nominations

McConnell takes hypocrisy to a new level.

How does he say that with a straight face?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

McConnell is right. Enough democrats will panic and join the republicans. Not all democrats are going to gamble their careers to make Schumer happy.

Schumer is eating pie in the sky. He imagines that if he can fight off nominations until 2018, democrats will regain the majority. That's foolish. In 2018 democrats are poised to lose more seats. Be obstructionist enough and it will be a Democrat bloodbath.

 

[pwjohn]

Is Mitch insane?

Most likely. He's definitely out of touch with his constituents.