Merrick Garland - O's pick for scotus
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Anonymous
Because all black are anti-Semitic  You wouldn't be racist by any chance?
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Anonymous
its like punching a wall for them. |
Anonymous
For once, I'm glad they are refusing to do their jobs. This way we'll get a much younger, more liberal justice to sway the court over a much longer period of time when Hillary wins. |
Anonymous
Oh honey I was out there voting - but since we don't have Senators in the District there's not much any of us could do about it. |
Anonymous
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This is all Obama's fault for being so arrogant and high handed while in office. This is not political, it's personal . McConnell is giving Obama a kick in the ass on his way out the door and there's not a damn thing he can do about it. This is a great big FU to Obama who has certainly earned it. "I have a pen" he says if Congress doesn't do what he wants. Well McConnell shoved that pen right up Obama's ass. It showing the whole world that the master bullshiter Obama has no political skill at all when it comes right down to it.
Merrick Garland is a feckless ticket puncher who had to know Obama was just using him as a stalking horse, yet his ego wouldn't let him refuse a doomed from the start nomination. For all if you whiny cry babies who say the Senate MUST hold hearings....there is no requirement that they do so on Obama's timetable. Face reality McConnell won, the left Lost. |
Anonymous
Obama Derangement at it's finest. The Obama was arrogant argument is such a false narrative. And good luck, dipshit, when you have Hillary in office. |
Anonymous
Nope. Because DCUM blacks often name-call those who dare to point out facts, so the bolded comment would be especially funny if coming from a black poster. You won't be a stupid donkey by any chance? |
Anonymous
Are you by any chance a high school dropout or just drunk? |
Anonymous
That's irrelevant. The only person elected who has the constitutional responsibility to nominate SCOTUS justices is the President. There is nothing in the Constitution to suggest that Presidents aren't really supposed to carry out their Constitutional responsibility for 25% of any 4 year term (how would this play out if it were the fourth year of his first term, I wonder?). Likewise, the members of the Senate elected in both 2012 and 2014 have the Constitutional responsibility to "advise and consent" on the nominees, which has historically been done through hearings and votes. No one is saying they have an obligation to approve the President's nominee, but refusing to even give a hearing to a nominee for what would amount to 1/6 of each of their terms is shirking their responsibility. I know it seems like we're really just electing parties sometimes, but the current primary season should make it clear that we're actually electing individual people. Like it or not, the current President was elected to the position that nominates appointees, not a group of Senators selected by a who have power disproportionate to the population they represent. |
Anonymous
Hey moron, Obama was quoting Reagan when he made the pen comment. And if you think McConnell already won, you are a fool. |
Anonymous
Ideally, I'd like policy-furthering legislation of any flavor to pass...at least on issues of national importance (like biosecurity and export controls) where it's simply appalling that no progress has been made post-9/11. Yes, I'd prefer that legislation reflect my own views on how to accomplish these goals, but I'd prefer to have just about anything on the books to help regulate, for example, biological research that could be weaponized...or at a minimum leave our country better prepared to handle the aftermath of a biological weapons attack. Realistically, I'd settle for a Congress that could pass appropriations bills in a timely fashion, preventing CR after CR which leads to horrible inefficiencies in government spending...and for one that could either get its act together to pass appropriations + tax bills that either don't require and increase in the debt ceiling or actually raise the debt ceiling without making our country look like it's run by idiots who don't understand that you don't get to pass spending bills telling government agencies to go run up obligations up to a certain level and then refuse to go out and get the money to actually pay for those obligations. Actually, I have a government that literally can barely keep the lights on. |
Anonymous
I'm a moderate Republican voter, and your comment is why Hillary may not win the election. That's not the way to get your typical Trump-voting males to vote for HRC. |
Anonymous
Why the hell do you think I'm trying to sway anyone? I'm really just bringing this to it's highly likely conclusion. McConnell acts like an idiot and refuses to even consider a qualified moderate nominee, Hillary beats that asshole Trump and now we still have an open seat. Unless the Senate (if still in Republican hands) refuses tp meet with anyone until they get a Republican president...which could lose them elections for quite a few years, definitely for president and very likely losing their grip on Congress. Which all would be 100% alright with me, because I'm so tired of their toddler like behavior. |
Anonymous
"Arrogant and high handed" is a euphemism for uppity Negro. In reality, arrogance and high-handedness is a refusal to do the constitutionally-mandated job for which you were elected and are being paid - I.e, United States Senator. Arrogance and high-handedness is deciding to subvert the will of the majority of the American people who twice elected Obama as our President because you were elected in a backwater state like Kentucky. You may recall that our President received 330 votes in the Electoral College. Arrogance and high-handedness is refusing to extend the basic courtesy of even meeting with one of the most highly-qualified individuals ever to be nomined to the Supreme Court. Clearly the lack of bipartisanship is solely the fault of our President. |
Anonymous
Hillary doesn't need the typical Trump voters. And McConnell may end up with a big cow pie on his face. |