People say Justice Clarence Thomas seldom speaks?
Think again.
Thank you, Justice Thomas.
BZ
Justice Clarence Thomas, Hillsdale College commencement address 2016
Tag Archives: SCOTUS
Obama wants “fairness” for his SCOTUS nominee
Obama never lords a win over anyone or anything. He never recommends fighting or brawling like the evil Donald Trump. Obama always plays fair and quietly.
Mr Obama held a press conference this morning to announce that he was nominating Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia. Garland sits on the DC Circuit Court. Many consider that the second most important court in the nation.
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
But now that the shoe is on the other foot, and Obama can’t ramrod his nominee down the throat of Congress, all of a sudden Mr Obama wants to be understood. He wants “fairness.” He wants us to play “fair” with him.
Now, the power over Mr Obama rests with Congress. The Republicans have the majority in both houses now.
In response to Mr Obama I say, with all due respect: blow it out your ass. Elections do have consequences.
Mr. Obama demanded a fair hearing for Judge Garland and said that refusing to even consider his nomination would provoke “an endless cycle of more tit for tat” that would undermine the democratic process for years to come.
Provoke an endless cycle, Mr Obama? YOU did that, many years ago. You and your fellow Demorats.
Do you remember, Mr Obama, when you lorded it over the GOP saying that “elections have consequences” and “I won, you lost“?
Let us not forget it was 1988 when your vice president, Joe Biden, said:
So apparently Joe Biden and the Demorats want it both ways. Biden said we must wait then. We must go ahead now. “And not, and not, name a nominee until after the November election is completed.”
The president urged the Republican-led Senate not to let the particularly fierce and partisan political climate quash the nomination of a “serious man.”
“This is precisely the time when we should play it straight,” Obama said.
So Merrick Garland may get caught in between a power play. Oh well, so sad. He gets paid a great wage now and will have thirty times the retirement you and I will. Big deal. He’ll get over it.
The only reason Obama says “we should play it straight” and wants “fairness” is because he can’t ram his position up the electorate’s ass.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Obama.
BZ
McConnell holds his mud?
How I customarily think of the GOPEE.
And it couldn’t have occurred at a more important time.
The GOP is actually starting to make mouth music like they possess a pair.
From Politico.com:
McConnell: Not a ‘snowball’s chance in hell’ I’ll relent on SCOTUS
by Lauren French and John Bresnahan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a group of staunch House conservatives there isn’t “a snowball’s chance in hell” that he will back down from his opposition to confirming a Supreme Court justice before a new president is elected.
McConnell’s comments came after Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, urged him to stay the course and not back down from a fight with the White House and Senate Democrats.
At first blush I must admit that I am surprised. Considering the history of the GOP, I expected Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP to do what they do best: bend over and capitulate to Obama, Demorats and Leftist pressure.
After all, the GOP is responsible — good or bad — for the creation of Donald Trump.
Voters and a number of conservatives got tired of the GOP reneging on its promises and going back to what I term its GOPEE (GOP Establishment Elite) roots. That means: “we’ll go along to get along because, at the end of the day, we’ll be bending elbows with our good friends the Demorats at local DC watering holes.”
Senate GOP: No hearings for Supreme Court nominee
by Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Tom LoBianco
Washington (CNN) In an unprecedented move, Senate Republicans vowed to deny holding confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee — even promising to deny meeting privately with whomever the President picks.
The historic move outraged Democrats and injected Supreme Court politics into the center of an already tense battle for the White House.
Yes, let the Leftist Demorat breast-beating commence.
“I don’t know how many times we need to keep saying this: The Judiciary Committee has unanimously recommended to me that there be no hearing. I’ve said repeatedly and I’m now confident that my conference agrees that this decision ought to be made by the next president, whoever is elected,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.
Why would the GOP stick to its guns now? you may ask. Because they realize the SCOTUS results are indeed so entirely critical.
Because, after all, wasn’t it the Demorats who said that elections have consequences?
“Elections have consequences and Eric, I won.”
— Barack Hussein Obama to House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, January 23, 2009
Well, ladies and gentlemen, elections do in fact have consequences. So swig a big cup of Get The Fuck Over It, Demorats. Finally, the GOP may actually wield the power it possesses. After all, the Obama Administration has been lording its power over the Republicans and the American Taxpayers for almost eight years now.
But can the GOP-controlled Senate actually do this?
Apparently yes, it can.
And here’s the further rub, bub: McConnell made this play before Barack Hussein Obama was able to float a specific name for Scalia’s SCOTUS replacement into the public political ether. Boo-hoo.
Thanks for reminding us that elections have consequences, Demorats.
You’re correct. They do.
But: WILL Mitch McConnell hold his mud?
BZ
Obama DID filibuster Samuel Alito
Mr Obama can’t stand it that Republicans are indicating they may filibuster any Obama nominee until after November’s election.
How dare they?
Some Republicans have made it clear they believe the next president, Republican or Demorat, should be the one making such a nomination — with the full power of the electorate behind them.
Mr Obama lies once again when he states there is a constitutional requirement to make such an appointment. There is no constitutional “requirement” for the president to immediately replace a Supreme Court justice.
The American Media Maggots — and Mr Obama himself — seem to mostly so conveniently minimize the fact that Obama filibustered Samuel Alito when he was nominated by a Republican president.
As you can see, Mr Obama verbally tapdances around the question — as he must, because he has been caught. Having been caught, he says he “regrets” his actions back then.
Uh, no. He only “regrets” it because he doesn’t want done to him what he did to the Republicans.
Hypocrisy, thy name continues to be Obama.
BZ
P.S.
The Perfect Storm of nominees for Obama, Demorats and Leftists? That would be Loretta Lynch for SCOTUS and then Kamala Harris to replace Lynch as AG.
Democrats: confirm any Obama nomination
Democrats are strident about ensuring confirmation of any candidate that Barack Hussein Obama nominates for justice, as a replacement for Antonin Scalia. Hillary Clinton is saying “the Republicans in the Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for Justice Scalia’s seat to remain vacant dishonor our Constitution. The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons.”
In other words: hurry up and fill the position with a Leftist in order to skew SCOTUS to the left for decades to come.
Isn’t it odd, then, that Chuck Schumer absolutely insisted that “we should not confirm any Bush nominee except in extraordinary circumstances” in 2007?
Pot and kettle? Rammpant Leftist hypocrisy anyone?
BZ