Collins breaks ranks with Republican leaders over Supreme Court nominee

[KamaAina]

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/02/22/collins-breaks-ranks-with-republican-leaders-over-supreme-court-nominee/

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, broke ranks with Republican leaders on Monday, telling CNN that President Obama’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court should be given a hearing.

Collins, a moderate, was joined by another Republican senator, Mark Kirk of Illinois, who told CNN the nominee should not only get a hearing, but a vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has stated publicly that Obama should not name a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at the age of 79. McConnell, who has vowed to block any nomination, said the next president should get to choose Scalia’s replacement. Scalia was widely viewed as a staunch and influential conservative justice....

“It is the duty of the Senate, under the Constitution, to give our advice and give our consent or withhold our consent,” she told the cable news outlet. “I believe we should follow the regular order and give careful consideration to any nominee that the president may send to the Senate.”

That's three: Collins, Kirk, and Tillis (NC). Drip... drip... drip...

[CincyDem]

2. I suspect Portman will join this drip.

He's running behind Strickland(D) in the polls. Portman won 6 years ago against Lee Fischer, a former Lt. Gov who appeared to have 9 toes in the grave during the campaign. The youthful Portman hammered him into the ground.

Strickland was Gov before Kasich so he's got statewide cred and had an organization on the ground that has delivered in the past.

Maybe again, especially since Portman is already in the shitter with Ohio Rethugs because he came out in favor of marriage equality (after his son came out and his wife explained the facts of life in the Portman home).

Based on that, he's got to draw a fair chunk of the undecided middle and obstructionism probably doesn't play well among that group.


And on Edit: I pisses me off that I missed being the first post to a nutritional supplement troll post. lol