Screw You Harry Reid

[Sun Devil 92]

Obama states that Bush should be able to make the appointment ONLY IF it agrees with the view of the senate.

But, that was not the question.

Mark

Show where Obama says we should wait for the next president to take office

He doesn't. I have stated that I feel the Senate should vote on a nominee, and if they do, they should use Obamas own words against him.

Mark

Alito was confirmed and gave Republicans a 5-4 advantage. Dems did not block his confirmation to wait for a Democratic president. You do not get more conservative than Alito

Republicans want to argue about the merits of a judge...fine
If they want to block all appointments till a Republican becomes President it is despicable politics

The system allows them to vote on a judge.

If they vote him down (don't confirm), he's not confirmed.

Depends on who Obammy sends up.

The GOP problem is that they are looking at a democratic president and senate.

They can keep rejecting until Clinton gets elected......

My guess is that Clinton, will appoint someone more moderate than the morons Obama has appointed.

But if he submits a "good" one, why would they not confirm him.

In spite of being an arch conservative, it took three months to confirm Alito
There are 11 months in Obamas term
Democrats ultimately allowed Bush to name his conservative judge

Why won't Republucans do the same?

Help me out here ?

Who owned the senate when Alito was nominated ?

And what was the vote.....58-42...which means most, if not all democrats voted against him.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Oh.....and.....

At the conclusion of the confirmation hearings, January 12, the threat of a filibuster appeared to grow more remote as Durbin called a filibuster attempt "unlikely". Judiciary Committee member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said, "I do not see a likelihood of a filibuster. This might be a man I disagree with, but it doesn't mean he shouldn't be on the court."[13] She changed her position on January 27, saying that she would vote no for cloture.[3] Fellow Judiciary Committee member Joe Biden (D-DE) said, "I think he is going to be confirmed." Other Democrats such as Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Ken Salazar (D-CO), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), however, said they would not support a filibuster, though they all voted against confirmation.[14][15] In addition, Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR), Kent Conrad (D-ND), and Joe Biden (D-DE) indicated that they did not support a filibuster.[4][5] Later, however, Joe Biden announced on the 29th that he would vote no for cloture.

On January 26, while vacationing in Switzerland, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) called for a filibuster to block Alito's nomination.[16] Despite the support of his fellow Massachusetts Senator, Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)[6][7][8] and Harry Reid (D-NV), the top Democrat in the Senate, other Democrats were afraid the measure would backfire and were cautious to support it. Just one day after Kerry's call for a filibuster, Reid further stated that the Democrats did not have the votes needed to sustain a filibuster to block the confirmation of Alito. "We're going to have a vote Tuesday morning," Reid said. "Everyone knows there are not enough votes to support a filibuster."[17][18]

The Democratic Senators from Massachusetts, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, attempted to gain support for a filibuster of the nominee, however they gained little support even within their own party. The Senate voted for cloture on the nomination 72-25. Three senators didn't vote, including Democrat Tom Harkin and Republican John Ensign, who had been injured in a car accident earlier that day. All of the members of the Gang of Fourteen voted for cloture with the majority.

 

[Camp]

Bork lost his integrity and shamed himself in the Saturday Night Massacre. He betrayed the entire DoJ and American people.

Tell it to someone who cares.

That isn't Bork, a judge.

If you don't like how a poster responds don't challenge them with the kind of dopey nonsense you like to use. Keep your comments to yourself, or at least away from posters who will predictable kick you ass.

If you don't like it, don't post.

I'll post where I want, when I want, what I want.

When you want to try and kick my ass, you let me know.

OK, if you insist on whining, but you know whining is something folks do when they get their asses kicked. So figuratively, you have intellectually had your ass kicked enough to make you whine.

Only in your dreams....

I am very open to any challenge you'd like to issue.

The issue is already settled. You claimed Bork did not have an issue before being nominated. I brought of the Saturday Night Massacre. Bork clearly had an issue with his reputation with the public. You were wrong, I was right, end of story. Figuratively, you got your ass kicked on that issue.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Tell it to someone who cares.

That isn't Bork, a judge.

If you don't like how a poster responds don't challenge them with the kind of dopey nonsense you like to use. Keep your comments to yourself, or at least away from posters who will predictable kick you ass.

If you don't like it, don't post.

I'll post where I want, when I want, what I want.

When you want to try and kick my ass, you let me know.

OK, if you insist on whining, but you know whining is something folks do when they get their asses kicked. So figuratively, you have intellectually had your ass kicked enough to make you whine.

Only in your dreams....

I am very open to any challenge you'd like to issue.

The issue is already settled. You claimed Bork did not have an issue before being nominated. I brought of the Saturday Night Massacre. Bork clearly had an issue with his reputation with the public. You were wrong, I was right, end of story. Figuratively, you got your ass kicked on that issue.

That was not what kept Bork out off the SCOTUS.

It wasn't an issue........

You were wrong....you lose....again........

 

[konradv]

Quit living in the past. If the Republicans hold up this nomination, it will only solidify their position as the party of obstruction going into the general. The percentage of people who remember 1960 is small and the number that care is even smaller.

Yea, the kind of Obstruction as when they shut the Government down for a few days trying to keep the Fool Obama from turning the country into a corrupt bankrupt banana republic. That bit of Obstructionism got them, in the very next election---even more seats in the House and Control of the Senate...which will now have a chance to teach the Asshole in the White House that it, in effect, also "has a pen and a phone"---or correctly stated---a Constitutional Veto over any Supreme Court Appointment he sends down.

Did they win the presidency in 2012? NO. Will they win in 2016? I DOUBT IT.

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. But if you want to roll with that, you'll need to take into account that over 30 governors and state legislatures as well as the house and senate became Republican controlled after the failed leadership of Obama, Reid and Pelosi. All they could deliver was partisan politics and gridlock and they paid the price. With only two old, rich, white people (one under FBI investigation and the other a socialist) from the party of the diversity, you might want to consider their odds in 2016 given today's current political environment across the nation.

All the more shame on the Republican Party when they lose again. IMO, they're traveling down the same path that cost them the last two presidential elections. You're using the same argument that was used in to 2012 to "prove" why Romney couldn't lose. Apparently lessons haven't been learned.

 

[Rambunctious]

Another moron who believes anything that does not support conservative dogma is unconstitutional

I love little more than when I've angered a leftist so much he or she resorts to name calling...thank you!

 

[kwc57]

Obama states that Bush should be able to make the appointment ONLY IF it agrees with the view of the senate.

But, that was not the question.

Mark

Show where Obama says we should wait for the next president to take office

He doesn't. I have stated that I feel the Senate should vote on a nominee, and if they do, they should use Obamas own words against him.

Mark

Alito was confirmed and gave Republicans a 5-4 advantage. Dems did not block his confirmation to wait for a Democratic president. You do not get more conservative than Alito

Republicans want to argue about the merits of a judge...fine
If they want to block all appointments till a Republican becomes President it is despicable politics

The system allows them to vote on a judge.

If they vote him down (don't confirm), he's not confirmed.

Depends on who Obammy sends up.

The GOP problem is that they are looking at a democratic president and senate.

They can keep rejecting until Clinton gets elected......

My guess is that Clinton, will appoint someone more moderate than the morons Obama has appointed.

But if he submits a "good" one, why would they not confirm him.

In spite of being an arch conservative, it took three months to confirm Alito
There are 11 months in Obamas term
Democrats ultimately allowed Bush to name his conservative judge

Why won't Republucans do the same?

If the answer hasn't sunk in the last 10 times it has been explained to you, I doubt it will the 11th. Enjoy your willful ignorance.

 

[BluesLegend]

This is classic liberal filth behavior, they howl like stuck pigs when the other side does something they themselves have done on numerous occasions.