RIP Antonin Scalia

No. With eight justices, more decisions will wind up going Dems way and if you play it right, you can whip up the base to mow down Republicans at the polls.

 

Who?

 

I think the point is that Hillary is not "folks."

 

Why? Seriously, you think Scalia deserved to be confirmed unanamously, but Bork deserved to be voted down?

Their records were very similar coming in:

Scalia Was 'Worse' Than Bork

 

Except, as Mitch McConnell pointed out, the people should decide. So shouldn't those senators be willing to sit it out so that the people can decide if they want them in the senate to vote on a justice?

And not just with Supreme Court decisions either. Shouldn't they be disqualified from voting on anything for the final year of their term because they may potentially be lame ducks?

This is the Republicans' reasoning on this issue.

 

There's a big difference between 'folks ' and the Clintons. 'Folks' have to follow the law.

 

Some people understand the term 'lame duck ' and some people are Baron.

 

That assumes the Republicans would be more open to a "moderate" than a "liberal".

They won't be. So, why nominate a moderate.

I think the Republicans will hold on this. I don't think the nominee even gets a hearing.

It's a bad option for them, but they think it's their best option. They don't want Kirk, and other vulnerable Senators to have to vote.

And, if Obama's going to win on the issue, it won't matter who the nominee is. It will be because the Republicans fully cave.

 

The Republicans didn't intend to nominate a moderate and/or liberal, but the mistakes happened because they were afraid to nominate a clear conservative.

 

I don't think the nominee will get a hearing, either.

So the best move by Obama is to nominate a moderate, Republicans block it, and HRC and Dems running for the Senate this fall can point to it as obstructionism.

 

Well, there was that one Saturday night in October 1973 ...

 

You think every senator is going to get re-elected? That means they're potential lame ducks. If being a lame duck means they shouldn't be doing anything, shouldn't potentially being a lame duck also mean that they should recuse themselves? After all, they may not be doing the will of the people, right?