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Am I the only one still outraged over the GOP's racist refusal to consider Obama's pick for the Supreme Court?
No one talks about it. Not the media. Not even anyone here.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)One of the many reasons the Repub party is dead to me.
treestar
(82,383 posts)not to even do the hearings.
unblock
(52,205 posts)of course, our media is more than capable of putting up a clock showing days since nomination and finding *some* excuse to talk about it every day.
they've done that with other stories when it suits republi-, i mean, when it suits them, going back to the iran hostage crisis.
they even did it recently with hillary's press conferences.
but mostly, unless someone pushes the media into it by feeding them talking points every day, they're not going to talk about a situation that isn't changing.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)So how do we push the media?
My main complaint is that this is blatant racism, not just partisan politics.
unblock
(52,205 posts)as a coordinated effort. not just us peons but people who are really plugged in and who can line up and arrange guests to generate new stories and talking points and get them on all the shows.
there are many angles to having a 4-4 court for an extended period of time. the racism of yet another first in disrespectful treatment of a president who entiiirely coincidentally just happens to be the first black president is a good one to push, but there are many other angles, including the impact of a tie on case after case, not the least of which might be if any election-related dispute comes up.
but, yeah. what's crazy donnie said today!
calimary
(81,220 posts)If you google their names, their Twitter handles will come up. If they don't automatically, just google his/her name AND the word Twitter and it will definitely come up.
Gets it on the record, and in front of others' eyes. ESPECIALLY if you add some other on-air person's Twitter handle, too. Then THEY'LL see it on their page also!
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Hillary pulls the nomination and submits Barack Obama as the new justice in January...
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)When Hillary wins - the Senate Republicans will confirm Judge Merrick Garland - they do not want to see Hillary's pick for the Supreme Court!
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Just as a punishment to the Rethugs, let Hillary make the nomination.
wcast
(595 posts)Hillary needs to pick a more liberal Justice.
Kensan
(180 posts)It would be much better if Garland, himself, simply withdrew his nomination. He could say how appreciative he was for the nomination, but that he doesn't want to become the storyline in partisan politics. The Republicans didn't do their job for several months, so Garland will take their own advice and leave the nomination for the next President.
Of course, he would have to say that he doesn't agree with the Republicans' assertion that a nominee in the final year should be put on indefinite hold until the next election. This is just recognizing the Senate Republicans have run out the clock, and have failed to perform one of their most important tasks empowered to them directly in the Constitution.
I'm really hoping Hillary gets a chance to nominate a justice that is much more fair-minded when it comes to interpreting the law and its consequences. This country needs to recover from the damage left behind by Scalia's "brilliance" in writing opinions to support his pre-determined verdicts (even if he completely reversed his own prior decisions). Without Scalia there to cajole his equally weak-minded conservatives, the USSC will have a chance to regain some of their lost prestige, and hopefully have a positive influence on important matters.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)McConnell does not plan to bring up Garland. He has an appropriations bill and (something else?) on his agenda, and that is it!
It was just on Rachel... maybe last night? She was talking about the 43-day weekend and showed a calendar of all the days when the Congress will be out of Washington until the end of the year.
Did anyone else see that?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,851 posts)He should be out there every day talking about how the Senate is refusing to do its job, and pointing out that they are flat-out wrong when they claim nominations don't get considered in a President's final year of office.
Why he let them get away with this completely baffles me.
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)And that is a pretty big risk. I do wish Obama would be using this more politically, though.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,851 posts)What he should be doing is talking every single day about how Congress isn't doing its job.
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)Hugin
(33,135 posts)And it promptly sinks.
The only way I console myself is with the thought of who will be available to be on the USSC early next year... or his wife. :like:
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Can they stall four more years?
tritsofme
(17,377 posts)That's why winning the Senate in November is so essential.
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)Wouldn't that be a thing of beauty?
ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)but I think I'm over it now...
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)DFW
(54,367 posts)Only electing a Democratic majority in the US Senate will do that.
Concentrate on the Senate races in Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. THAT will get us our ninth Justice.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)They'd be mentioning it whenever a camera is in their face.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)To say it is the next president's right to nominate a justice is absurd.
Scalia died in Feb. that is 12 months or one year from January 20th, when the net president takes office. One year is a quarter of a president's term. Of course Obama should have had his nominee voted on. Ridiculous on its face to say a full year more in office does not count.
ArcticFox
(1,249 posts)Obama better withdraw that nomination as soon as Hillary Clinton is elected. We need someone a bit further to the left.
And remember, the Republicans want the next President to choose, so that would be a good show of bipartisanship.
Hekate
(90,660 posts)Saying "Obama better do this or that" ... Well, no. He Vetted Garland, and he nominated him. I trust Obama's judgment.
Second, if Hillary ends up with the same Congress, she's going to have the same problems getting appoinments through as Obama's had.
Recently I heard we are 80 judges short on the Federal benches. That's all down to the GOP Congress. The Gingrich/ Tea Party types are not kidding when they say they are trying to destroy the government.
GOTV
ColemanMaskell
(783 posts)but that if Garland is not approved before the election, and she is elected, then she has indicated she may consider someone more progressive.
The Republicans may approve Garland in the lame duck session.
Of course their refusal even to hold hearings, and well before now, is an insult and an outrage. How is that even a question?
Sadly we have been faced with far too many insults and outrages from the right. I mean, who thought it was okay to shout out "Liar!" at the President? How does that even pass for thinking? and asking him to show his birth certificate, as if he was a teenager trying to buy beer with a fake id? There is no excuse possible for the disgraceful behavior that has been shown to both the person and the office of the President.
Obama has met it all with grace, composure, compassion, selflessness, intellect, and statesmanship. He will go down in history as one of the great presidents.
You know the rationale behind "Love your Enemy" once given by the Dalai Lama? He said that your enemy gives you chances your friends cannot, chances to demonstrate strength of character and indeed to strengthen oneself in that way by practicing the good qualities of character that enable you to overcome the assaults. Obama has been given the opportunity to rise above the low behavior of his opposition, and to shine like a bright light above the muck in which the right wing has mired itself, and into which they try to drag the rest of the country down. He has cast a light of hope and inspiration that all can see and that will continue to inspire us into the future.
So, use your outrage to energize yourself to work to get out the vote. We need a landslide. We need a Senate majority. We need to take back the House. Look to Obama's example as inspiration to draw strength for the fight we need to continue.
GET OUT THE VOTE
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)almost every day, and there are many posters doing the reminding.
Mira
(22,380 posts)Hekate
(90,660 posts)Hm?
Nitram
(22,794 posts)of Donald Dump. Government shutdowns, refusal to pass a budget without poison pill amendments, scores of useless debts and votes to repeal or defund Obamacare, a Vice President who outed a covert CIA officer, a president who left New Orleans to drown - need I go on?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)And we want our party to pay the repugs back, in spades, when the next opportunity arises.
I'm all for docking the pay of all repug Senate incumbents involved in this Garland scandal, when we retake the Senate.
I'm all for filibustering every business oriented political appointee, forever, the next time the repugs need confirmation hearings.
spanone
(135,828 posts)I hope when Hillary wins she appoints a raving liberal.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)The fact that here we are 9 months later and there still has not been a vote on a nominee is just another glaring example of the unprecedented republican obstructionism.
pansypoo53219
(20,974 posts)and the GNEWZ media lets them get away w/ this because they ARE PARTISAN IN THEY DON'T SAY IT. fuck the gnewz AND the GOP.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)them.