Obama should have been giving daily news conferences...

[LS_Editor]

Pointing out the Republicans were blocking his Supreme Court nominee.

He already reduced his leverage with his choice. Obama should have chosen Lynch. Imagine the shit show for the Republicans blocking a black woman - a highly qualified one - from the Supreme Court. It would have been a a hard ball political pick.

So tired of Democrats shirking from fights when they are right. And now it has lost a critical Supreme Court seat.

[MFM008]

1. what did I say? This isn't how Obama rolls.

shaking things up? rocking the boat?
Not his style man.

[LS_Editor]

3. Serious misuse of the bully pulpit.

[Skittles]

13. serious disuse

[cwydro]

16. Yup.

Very disappointed.

[sheshe2]

2. Democratic Underground

Bestest place to bash Dems!

The Media...like they ever cared, They are partisan hacks.

[LS_Editor]

4. Yes. Loyal criticism when mistakes like quietly allowing a Supreme Court seat to be lost.

You know, criticism when it is exceedingly warranted.

[sheshe2]

5. Oh GOP had nothing at all to do with it

McConnell throws down the gauntlet: No Scalia replacement under Obama

The Senate majority leader's challenge to the president's nominating authority appears to be unprecedented.

By Burgess Everett and Glenn Thrush
| 02/13/16 06:34 PM EST
| Updated 02/13/16 09:56 PM EST

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/mitch-mcconnell-antonin-scalia-supreme-court-nomination-219248

[LS_Editor]

7. Use the bully pulpit. Attack them. Every day. Publicly. Should Democrats be given a ribbon?

[sheshe2]

9. Bully for you.

Attack the GOP EVERY DAMN DAY THAT I WILL AGREE ON.

I will not attack my party. I will work with them, every dam day.

[LS_Editor]

10. Doing a hell of a job.

Maybe you should listen to some criticism.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Maybe you want a ribbon for bashing our president? Perhaps we should enumerate the failures

of the Carter presidency whilst Putin's pals pull the strings and dance the Tweedling orange shitgibbon into office? Meanwhile we can sit rapt at your knee while you illuminate our many failures and collective sins. That's one way to go.

Or - - we could instead concentrate on the very real threat at hand. Yeah. I think I'll go with that.

[George II]

17. Sorry, your OP was beyond criticism.

[sheshe2]

6. Yawn.

These posts are amusing.

Bash Dems! Yeah!

[LS_Editor]

8. Spamming this thread, huh?

[sheshe2]

11. When you respond to a post directed at you it is spamming?

Seriously?

I responded to your questions and responses.

That is spamming now. Lol.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. The Trump people wouldn't have believed him.

I don't think they would even have cared.

[ismnotwasm]

18. Holy fucking shit, really?

Really? What shit show would that be exactly, given the Republicans just nominated the beloved of the KKK.

[NastyRiffraff]

19. To be clear

The failure was REPUBLICANS in Congress. As someone said here, Mitch McConnell made no secret that there would be NO vote on Judge Merrick Garland's nomination. Further, several Senators, including the so-called "moderate," John McCain, have ssuggested that they would have blocked Hillary Clinton's nominees:

“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court,” North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr said in an audio recording of his meeting with GOP volunteers on Saturday. CNN obtained a copy of the audio.

GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Ted Cruz of Texas have also suggested blocking any Clinton nominees. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in a debate Monday night that he “can’t imagine” voting for any Clinton nominee though he stopped short of vowing to block a pick from a Democratic president.
PBS

I can't see how Obama's holding "daily news conferences" on the issue would have helped, given the shitheads in the Senate. I will miss President Obama and his family so much it will hurt. He is the opposite of Dump with his grace, intelligence and humor.