Remember this as those who continue to speak with a forked tongue (Moscow Mitch!) twist themselves into knots to justify the nominating process 43 days before a presidential election.
Hypocritical vipers, all of them:
2016, Moscow Mitch McConnell tells Fox News Sunday, "The Senate has a role to play here. The president nominates, we decide to confirm. We think the important principle in the middle of this presidential year is that the American people need to weigh in and decide who's going to make this decision. Not this lame duck president on the way out the door, but the next president."
2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”
2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”
2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”
2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”
2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”
2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”
2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”
2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”
2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”
2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”
2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”
What happened to these self-righteous Republicans that allows them to completely reverse themselves on this crucial matter?
I'll answer my own rhetorical question: Trump has completely destroyed any honor, decency, and integrity it once had.
The GOP is NOT a political party; it is a cult. The Cult of Trump.
Vote these hypocrits out on November 3!
BIDEN-HARRIS 2020
People have short memories. Especially when they really have few or no core beliefs other than to serve what they feel is in THEIR best interests. It's really as simple as that and these hypocritical bastards and their hypocritical party are aces at it.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct RN, people do have short memories. I think it was the previous administration who said I won deal with it. The democrats shoved obamacare down everyone throats without regard to opposition opinion and obama's response was I won deal with it. The senate is controlled by the republicans so they are entitled to take the same approach.
ReplyDeleteSkud... go away. Pure and simple. Why should we listen to you? You go on and on about "Predator Joe" as you called Biden, yet without a hint of the same disdain for Trump.
ReplyDeleteYou are willfully ignorant of the facts, or just choosing to ignore reality.
Many of us have tried, unsuccessfully to engage you respectfully over time, thinking maybe since you are here, you might ever answer a question straight. Your quote "The democrats are not interested in serving the American citizen just like Black Lies Matter is not interested in making black lives better." is disgusting. I realize plenty of lefties say the same about the GOP, but I've tried to resist that language.
You've just become too obtuse for words. Your short post, slamming Obamacare flies in the face of the reality we've offered up to refute your views many times. Choose what you want to believe, but I don't understand why Shaw continues to allow you to post with links to back up your uninformed statements.
But I guess that is the difference between us crazy libs and the folks at the Mothership. They won't allow a dissenting view and ask themselves, and people like you, why libs think the way we do. Why not ask us? because they don't want dissenting opinion.
Dave,
ReplyDeleteSkud's idea of governing is "payback" and "sticking it to the libtards." Which is a way of governing that will destroy our American democracy. It is the way Donald Trump conducted himself in his dubious business career -- we've all read how he cheated people out of their due and his vindictive personality that punches down anyone who dares challenge his lies and deceits and anyone who doesn't flatter his stupidity.
Skud is on board with that. And doesn't even understand how destructive that trait is for a leader of a country. IMO, skud would have been one of the good Germans who looked away in the 1930s when that leader promised to make Germany great again while planning to exterminate millions of people he didn't like.
That's harsh, I know. But skud leaves comments here that reinforce my opinion.
I allow his input here so I can see how Trumpers think and how they justify his lying, cheating, and fraud.
And, believe me, Dave, there are millions and millions just like skud who see nothing wrong with what Trump has done only because those Trumpers hate the same people Trump hates. But even worse, Trump doesn't even like his supporters. Not one of them, including skud, would be invited to join his many private clubs.
How any of his supporters thought a guy who owned his own jet and who has a golden toilet would be "one of them" is a mystery. I'd like to know what they think he's done to "lift them up."
I'd start by pointing out that lying and being deceitful about a lethal pandemic is not an excellent way of "lifting up" his supporters, but rather a way of thinning them out. And Trump is doing a good job of that, intentionally or not.
I hope those in the military remember what he thinks of them when they vote. I don't think calling the men and women who sacrifice themselves for their country would feel "lifted up" by a CiC who calls them "losers and suckers."
But all of that disgusting evidence of what Trump is will not dissuade people like skud because they hate "Libtards and DemoncRATs" more than they love America, IMO.
Here's something skud should consider the next time he trashes the ACA (Obamacare):
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON, D.C. -- On the eve of its 10-year anniversary, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 -- is supported by the slight majority of Americans, 52%. This has occurred only twice previously in Gallup polling on the ACA since 2012, both times in the early days of Donald Trump's presidency. Since Trump has been in office, the public has either tilted in favor of the ACA or been closely split. By contrast, from 2012 to 2016, attitudes more often tilted against the law.
Also a majority of Americans DO NOT APPROVE OF DONALD J. TRUMP.
Trump said from the time he started his campaign for the presidency all the way to July of this year that he had a better and cheaper plan to replace the ACA. That, of course, is a damnable lie. There is no plan. All there is is another Trumpian LIE.
Never once will people like skud mention this insult to all Americans who depend on and need affordable healthcare. They see nothing wrong with a president who plays politics with peoples lives.
He did so with the Covid-19 pandemic and 200,000 Americans are dead.
Actually Ms Shaw and Rev you are incorrect. For one thing I seldom mention trump because I think he is disgusting and normally it is understood you are talking about trump when the topic turns negative. Polls are funny things. If you polled the people who are on ACA or have a family member on it the results are in favor. If you poll someone who's insurance rates doubled because of it the results would be negative so you really need to identify the audience and the questions.
ReplyDeleteI happen to one of the majority who do not approve of trump. I also can't approve the harris/biden ticket because they have no platform I can accept. I don't consider raise taxes on individuals and corporations forgive student loans, open borders and ship manufacturing to china as a worthwhile platform. You do have to understand corporations pass on taxes so it will hurt everyone. I also would like to see congress work for the American people which hasn't happened since RR. It is all about the party and to hell with the people. That is both sides BTW. Where is immigration reform that has been in the works through four administration, healthcare reform that obama started and dropped, infrastructure improvements that has been in the works for three administrations. No we have horrible representation that would rather fight than fix.
Rev, Can you tell me what BLM has done for the black community. They raise millions of dollars and spend nothing to improve black lives or black communities. When you have 30+ shootings and several deaths in Chicago black neighborhoods over a weekend and where is BLM. Out raising money somewhere else. You do charitable work and put your donations to work, they promote a cause and serve few.
Skud... I could answer all of your questions, but it wouldn't matter. From the ACA to immigration, while you may not support Pres Trump, your questions give evidence to the reality that you support most, if not all of his positions.
ReplyDeleteI do thank you for the kind words though. My little group, with an annual budget of about 150K currently supports 4 families in Mexico and a host of other projects, mostly in Oaxaca, including a food development program that currently is supplying food to ppl in three different pueblos.
If America wants to solve the immigration crisis, perhaps we should look towards helping make people's homeland a better place to live. But I doubt any politician will support that.
Former Vice President Joe Biden declared in 2016 that if he were chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee he would push ahead with the nomination of a Supreme Court justice "even a few months before a presidential election."
ReplyDeleteGuess he changed his mind but it appears the harris/biden ticket is solid in their opinion now.
Open borders and shipping manufacturing to China it NOT a part of the Biden/Harris platform!
ReplyDeleteBiden unveils plan to penalize companies that offshore jobs ahead of Michigan visit.
skudrunner said...
ReplyDelete"Former Vice President Joe Biden declared in 2016 that if he were chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee he would push ahead with the nomination of a Supreme Court justice "even a few months before a presidential election."
Yes. And when President Obama tried to get his nomination for SCOTUS through, Moscow Mitch stopped it dead in its tracks. Do you understand why we Democrats feel differently now?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If Moscow Mitch thought it was okay to block a president's pick for the SCOTUS when there were 8 months to the election, then he signalled to the Dems and the rest of the country that the Dems can do the same.
Moscow Mitch is a hypocrite and one of the most hated pols in America.
And he's earned it.
Moscow Mitch is trump's bitch. The fact the sob has not been defeated, long ago, says much about the lack of character of the gop voters in his state.
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