RIP Antonin Scalia

Asking him was stupid, as McConnell did.
If the GOP doesn't have the testicles to block this through the end of the term, they don't deserve the presidency, just on principle of leadership, which the senate would have unequivocally proven it lacks.
Obama might as well follow his pattern and nominate the most hard-core radical anyway, but I bet he tries to nominate a moderate in disguise and then when the GOP blocks it, complain that "I tried."

 

You're the one who thinks that the President does Mafia-style hits on his enemies and I'm the idiot?

No, Alex Jones and the Rest of You Conspiracy Theorist Idiots, Scalia Wasn't F**ing "Assassinated" - The Daily Banter

 

That you would characterize Sotomayor and Kagan as "hard-core radicals" doesn't leave much wiggle room as to whether we should accept your opinions as informed or serious.

 

Puhleeze. The Republicans complain about him no matter what he does.

He takes a hardline in the Mideast, and he's acting like a king. He doesn't, then he's leading from behind.

He draws a big crowd to a speech and he's a celebrity. He doesn't draw anyone, and he's a loser who doesn't have anything to say.

He could annouce world peace and a cure for cancer, and they'd complain that he was throwing defense contractors and cancer researchers out of work.

 

Says the guy who still thinks gay marriage somehow has an effect on his life.

 

Speaking of mic-drop moments, anyone see Devil lately?

 

Serious question here. Let's say they do block Obama's nomination and a Democrat gets in office in November. If it's still a Republican-led Senate, what's to stop them for refusing to appoint a nominee for another four years?

 

At least they've proven themselves to be completley intellectually honest by shooting down the celebrity in their own primary field.

 

Public pressure, basically.

 

The president does have the power to call special sessions of Congress. I suppose President Clinton/Sanders could keep calling for special sessions every single day, and, if nothing else, force the Republicans to never be able to go home.

 

I might not call them "radicals", but they, along with Ginsberg are all consistently liberal.

Where they vote with the conservatives, it's almost always a 9-0, or maybe an 8-1.

It's extremely rare that you would be surprised by their vote. You can't say the same about Kennedy, or even Roberts. To the degree Scalia surprised, it was because people didn't understand him. But, he didn't vote "conservatively" on every issue.

Have Sotomoyor, Kagan, or Ginsberg ever voted with the "conservatives" on the court on a 5-4, or a 6-3 vote?

 

Ted Cruz said over the weekend that nominating Roberts was a "mistake." Cruz wasn't a Senator then, was he?