GOP SENATE TO OBAMA : DON'T BOTHER NOMINATING TO THE COURT

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16. This isn't about Sanders and Clinton.

I would like to see both camps focus on what the Repuglicans are doing and not get distracted by which potential Democratic nominee might make the better future, theoretical Supreme Court appointment.

That being said ...

Isn’t it ironic that many so-called ‘constitutional conservatives' suddenly become 'cafeteria constitutionalists' when it fits their current political agenda?

In this case, it is even more ironic that the replacement for Scalia, the great proponent of "original meaning", would be made the object of Republican political opposition to Pres. Obama -- when the meaning and plan of the Constitution is quite clear -- the Senate should fulfill its constitutional duty when the President makes his Court nomination.

The Repuglicans may very well have made a yuuge strategic mistake here and it ought to be exploited by all decent Americans. Even many of my Facebook conservative 'friends' have noted that in this case the process of the Constitution ought to be followed.

If the Repuglicans are insistent on going down this anti-constitutional obstructionist route, I'd like to see Pres. Obama nominate Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar and make it very, very hot for them politically.

Franky, if Pres. Obama, Senate Democrats, and Sen. Sanders and Mrs. Clinton, play this smart, the Repuglicans will likely cave sooner rather than later -- because they could lose it all.