It's time to make Republicans pay for their supreme hypocrisy

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-make-republicans-pay-for-their-supreme-hypocrisy/2017/02/01/b5026f24-e8c0-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html

It’s time to make Republicans pay for their supreme hypocrisy
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Opinion writer February 1 at 7:24 PM

You want bipartisanship on Supreme Court nominations? Let’s have a consensus moment around Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea that having only eight Supreme Court justices is just fine.

“There is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices,” the Texas Republican said last year when GOP senators were refusing even to give a hearing to Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee.

Cruz cited a Democratic court appointee, Justice Stephen Breyer, to give his case heft. He noted that “Justice Breyer observed that the vacancy is not impacting the ability of the court to do its job.”

If that argument was good in 2016, why isn’t it valid in 2017? After all, some Republicans were willing to keep the seat vacant indefinitely if Hillary Clinton won the presidential election. “I would much rather have eight Supreme Court justices than a justice who is liberal,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in October.

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Well, McCain, I would MUCH rather keep that stolen seat vacant than have a RWer in it.

What's good sauce for the goose is good sauce for the gander.

The seat should stay open and Democrats need to propagate that again and again. It's worked out swimmingly well for the past year for Repukes. Let's also remember that Trumputin didn't win the popular vote, so he has no right to appoint a nomination. Hey, that excuse worked for Repukes for over a year and the M$M bought it and propagated that excuse as truth.

Democrats need to do the same thing. And if No-Lips Mitch wants to kill the filibuster, crucify him with his own words when he was 'outraged' that Democrats, due to Repuke obstructionism, couldn't get a legitimate president's nomination on Federal court benches. Hammer him with it, again and again.

There's a time for diplomacy and a time for action. Republicans killed diplomacy the past eight years. Dems--FIGHT.