RIP Antonin Scalia

Well, he's going to the Supreme Court ceremony. There's been some speculation that the Scalia family requested he not attend, perhaps to avoid the distraction, with the battle looming regarding his replacement.

 

Weak argument. What does that have to do with right now?

 

Why don't you remind us why he was treated as such? It couldn't have had anything to do with a certain Saturday night in 1973, right?

 

The Senate has a right to block a nomination. (After Bork, Biden voted to confirm Kennedy).
Many current Senators are arguing President Obama has no right to make a nomination.

 

No, they aren't.

 

The demarcation point from politics to hatred was when the republicans decided that Bill Clinton wasn't qualified to be President. But for all the right wing irrationality, starting with Limbaughs countdown clock to the end of CLinton's 1st term, they have lost 4 of the last 6 Electoral College elections and 5 of the last 6 popular vote totals. And it's been since 1988 that a Republican Presidential Candiate got at least 51% of the popular vote.

The 2000 election was a sham and Ralph Nader should be tarred and feathered. 2004 was an election held during a popular war and run against a man who didn't have it in him to be as vile and disgusting as his opposition. 9-11 happened on GWB's watch. If it happened on CLinton's or Obama's, they would have been impeached by 10-11

 

I don't know how Reagan could have thought the Bork nomination would fly. The guy carried out the Saturday Night Massacre during Watergate, an action later ruled illegal - it's since been learned that he did it with a promise from Nixon for the next seat on the Supreme Court. He should have taken the hint from his two superiors at the time who resigned rather than carry out the order to remove Archibald Cox.

 

The GOP has never gotten over the fact that Americans care more about who will do a good job while in office and less about whether he cheats on his wife.

 

Let's blame Nader for 2000 instead of a lousy candidate.

 

Score one for Biden then.

 

Team Reagan, of course, had a deep hardcore of holdovers from the Nixon regime. They were just paying off an old debt.
Many of those Tricky Dicksters were eventually handed down through both Bush administrations; some even survive today.

 

Yes, they are. Senator McCain says Obama shouldn't nominate anyone.

"In an election year with the long-term balance of the Supreme Court at stake, Senator McCain believes the American people should not be deprived of the opportunity to have a voice at this critical moment."

I never thought McCain, with a history of crossing party lines, would join the partisan B.S. chorus. But there he is.