Biden Agrees With Republicans - Obama Should Not Nominate for SC
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Well he convinced me, I say wait until after the election. I was actually for an appointment before.
As I see it the Republican responses that started before Justice Scalia's body temp dipped below 90 can fall into these three categories:
1. I am taking my ball and going home because I am upset and feel marginalized. Most people grow out of this belief system by puberty.
2. I have the perception that someone else did this, and even though if true it would be wrong I'm going to do it now anyway. Two wrongs equal a right.
3. Somewhere in the fine print of the Constitution it says a President cannot nominate a new Supreme Court Justice after some unspecified date. I just can't point out where it says this, so trust me.
1. I am taking my ball and going home because I am upset and feel marginalized. Most people grow out of this belief system by puberty.
2. I have the perception that someone else did this, and even though if true it would be wrong I'm going to do it now anyway. Two wrongs equal a right.
3. Somewhere in the fine print of the Constitution it says a President cannot nominate a new Supreme Court Justice after some unspecified date. I just can't point out where it says this, so trust me.
B.S. He said in that video (starting around the 13 second mark) that Bush should hold off on nominating anyone because it was an election year. What the heck were you listening to?
Back then, it was a REPUBLICAN outgoing President, so he argued that he should not make a nomination because he wanted the chance for a Democrat to make the nomination. The current President is a DEMOCRAT, so he wants him to make the nomination. Totally different circumstances.
So you see, the consistent position is that he wants the Democrats to make the nomination. I'm not sure why people expect more than this from any of our politicians at this point.
Glad I could help
So you see, the consistent position is that he wants the Democrats to make the nomination. I'm not sure why people expect more than this from any of our politicians at this point.
Glad I could help
Not really the first (or last) time Biden has said something that came back to haunt him. Gotta' love Uncle Joe.
As is typical, Republicans ignore the rest of the story. From that same speech:
The clips and quotes Republicans seized on, however, ignored a passage buried deep in the transcript where Biden called for a "compromise" pick, much as he's done in the past week.
"I believe that so long as the public continues to split its confidence between the branches, compromise is the responsible course both for the White House and for the Senate," Biden also said at the time. "If the President consults and cooperates with the Senate or moderates his selections absent consultation, then his nominees may enjoy my support as did Justices Kennedy and Souter. But if he does not, as is the President's right, then I will oppose his future nominees as is my right."
Biden is saying a compromise candidate might work. It doesn't say that the Senate shouldn't hold hearings or that no nominee should be presented. Inconvenient for the right wing narrative.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/joe-biden-supreme-court-nominee-1992-219635#ixzz40wL9RKYQ
There is a difference or two between 'then" and "now".......
It is February of an election year. Biden's speech was given in June of an election year. With the summer recess approaching in August and the election campaign immediately afterwards, I can see Biden's reasoning. Biden was actually talking about an (imminent) election...The GOP is taking license with the calendar to make their argument this year. Apples and oranges.
It is February of an election year. Biden's speech was given in June of an election year. With the summer recess approaching in August and the election campaign immediately afterwards, I can see Biden's reasoning. Biden was actually talking about an (imminent) election...The GOP is taking license with the calendar to make their argument this year. Apples and oranges.
Regardless of initial rhetoric, I see Republicans going along with a compromise pick. I don't necessarily think President Obama will actually pick a moderate, but if he does I can see the Senate going along. More likely the President will pick someone who is not moderate but will say they are to make political points.
February is not June. Senate vacation is 6 months away...not less than two months. A lot work CAN be done in 6 months....not that this Congress would want to accomplish any thing though.
define "moderate" for me?
Abortion is going to be the litmus test for GOPers......and "abortion" was dealt with many DECADES ago. However the cons in this nation insist on picking scabs and they will never allow "the wound" to heal.
Yes, I agree, The GOP certainly is "grasping at straws" as they search for their first original idea in over 12 years. This is another futile grasp.
Rubio said the difference between November and February makes a difference (referring to difference between Kennedy and now). And if I'm not mistaken, congress has a month off in Dec/Jan.
The first clue that something was not quite right about the clip was that it was only 2:11. Everyone knows Joe Biden has never been that brief speaking on anything.
When Leftists are confronted with one of the myriad subjects where their lame hypocritical position, Fails, it's always the same thing.
LIE, change the subject, or twist so that their low information sychophants can go on
twerking or begging, or playing the victim.
Carry on here
True, Republicans didn't bother to wait until Scalia had assumed room temperature.
Democrats, on the other hand, didn't even wait until there was an opening to start blathering about blocking nominees, both in 1992 and in 2007/2008.
I think I posted this exact thing in this thread somewhere but I'm not a strong scroller.
