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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2016, 03:04:44 AM »
The people have spoken.  They put the GOP in control of the Senate and the Senate is electing to invoke the Biden Rule by not confirming a nominee until after the election. 

LOL!  The "Biden Rule"... which piece of legislation was that?   Oh, a decades old suggestion from a speech?  Sheesh, setting the bar kinda low for "rules".



Mitch McConnell Wakes Up To Nasty Surprise: 16 GOP Senators Defect And Will Meet With Obama’s SCOTUS
(Bipartisan Report) NBC News is reporting that some Republican senators are starting to change their “tone” about Obama’s Supreme Count nominee, Merrick Garland. In spite of the “wall of opposition” brought about by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell against any nominee President Obama puts forward, a quarter of Republican senators 16 in total – have stated that they will “meet” with Garland about his nomination.

Progress? Perhaps, but only slightly. The fact remains that a majority of Republican senators will not even meet with Garland to discuss his potential nomination. This doesn’t even include putting it to a vote. This is literally just sitting down and talking with the man about potentially filling the vacant seat left by Justice Antonin Scalia following his death. Most remain completely hell-bent on blocking anybody Obama sends forward, no matter who it is.

This opposition is in spite of the fact that, according to recent polling, 61 percent of Americans believe that Republican Senators should do their job and put Garland’s nomination to a vote. The Senators remain firmly opposed to the American people who elected them. Only 31 percent agree that the next president should appoint the new justice.

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2016, 08:06:17 AM »
There is precedence either way but with Biden being the sitting VP I don't see how they get their pick when his own stance can be used against them.

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2016, 08:20:40 AM »
There is precedence either way but with Biden being the sitting VP I don't see how they get their pick when his own stance can be used against them.

biden is the sitting VP.   Repubs aren't saying "let's follow biden's speech on" gun control, abortion, stem cells, min wage, amnesty, or 100 other issues.  But because they agree with him on ONE THING said in a speech 25 years ago, suddenly it's a rule? 

They agree with a decades-old biden speech.  There is no biden RULE.  There is no law.  If they want to say he was credible, then open it all up, not the 1 in 1,000,000 things Biden has said into a mic over 40 years.

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2016, 09:13:07 AM »
LOL!  The "Biden Rule"... which piece of legislation was that?   Oh, a decades old suggestion from a speech?  Sheesh, setting the bar kinda low for "rules".



Mitch McConnell Wakes Up To Nasty Surprise: 16 GOP Senators Defect And Will Meet With Obama’s SCOTUS
(Bipartisan Report) NBC News is reporting that some Republican senators are starting to change their “tone” about Obama’s Supreme Count nominee, Merrick Garland. In spite of the “wall of opposition” brought about by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell against any nominee President Obama puts forward, a quarter of Republican senators 16 in total – have stated that they will “meet” with Garland about his nomination.

Progress? Perhaps, but only slightly. The fact remains that a majority of Republican senators will not even meet with Garland to discuss his potential nomination. This doesn’t even include putting it to a vote. This is literally just sitting down and talking with the man about potentially filling the vacant seat left by Justice Antonin Scalia following his death. Most remain completely hell-bent on blocking anybody Obama sends forward, no matter who it is.

This opposition is in spite of the fact that, according to recent polling, 61 percent of Americans believe that Republican Senators should do their job and put Garland’s nomination to a vote. The Senators remain firmly opposed to the American people who elected them. Only 31 percent agree that the next president should appoint the new justice.

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2016, 07:24:25 PM »
biden is the sitting VP.   Repubs aren't saying "let's follow biden's speech on" gun control, abortion, stem cells, min wage, amnesty, or 100 other issues.  But because they agree with him on ONE THING said in a speech 25 years ago, suddenly it's a rule? 

They agree with a decades-old biden speech.  There is no biden RULE.  There is no law.  If they want to say he was credible, then open it all up, not the 1 in 1,000,000 things Biden has said into a mic over 40 years.




All that being said, it WAS his stance and he's still active and it is fair game. Politics is full of dirty opportunists. No surprise.

I think they have accepted this and have started campaigning for the Dems from the cabinet at this point....knowing that if a Repub gets in there it's going to be how much they strip out that this admin put in place, not if they do it.

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2016, 07:31:04 PM »


All that being said, it WAS his stance and he's still active and it is fair game. Politics is full of dirty opportunists. No surprise.

I think they have accepted this and have started campaigning for the Dems from the cabinet at this point....knowing that if a Repub gets in there it's going to be how much they strip out that this admin put in place, not if they do it.

then call it the biden STANCE.   The biden position. 

They're all like "We will follow the biden rule" like it's an actual rule.  They dismiss the other 9,999 things he's said in speeches but pretend he's worthy of obeying, the 1 time they agree with him

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2016, 11:48:30 PM »
When we have the Affordable Care Act that isn't affordable and the Patriot Act that is in no way patriotic I think the least of our worries is whether the semantics fit Biden doing what was good or him then not being good for him now. Everybody can just go ahead and wait 6 months. A slow grind in govt doesn't bother me at all. If Dems win they get their pick.

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Re: Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court
« Reply #32 on: April 07, 2016, 06:15:05 PM »
If somehow a Republican wins in November I hope that Dems fillubuster all his nominations
Seems fair to me.  If the people who put Obama in office don't get a voice then why should the people who put a Republican in office get a voice?