I totally agree with Mitch McConnell

[Bucky]

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/13/1484831/-Sen-Mitch-McConnell-in-2005-The-President-and-the-President-alone-nominates-judges

"The Constitution of the United States is at stake. Article II, Section 2 clearly provides that the President, and the President alone, nominates judges. The Senate is empowered to give advice and consent. But my Democratic colleagues want to change the rules. They want to reinterpret the Constitution to require a supermajority for confirmation. In effect, they would take away the power to nominate from the President and grant it to a minority of 41 Senators."

"[T]he Republican conference intends to restore the principle that, regardless of party, any President's judicial nominees, after full debate, deserve a simple up-or-down vote. I know that some of our colleagues wish that restoration of this principle were not required. But it is a measured step that my friends on the other side of the aisle have unfortunately made necessary. For the first time in 214 years, they have changed the Senate's 'advise and consent' responsibilities to 'advise and obstruct.'"

[still_one]

1. beautiful. This should be thrown right back in his face

[vi5]

2. By who?

The media? Obama? Anyone in any position of authority in the Democratic party with access to any form of bully pulpit?

If any of those people were willing to call out Republicans on their past statements and hypocrisy then there's at least an outside chance we might not be in as bad of a clusterfuck as we are now.

But as it stands Republicans have 8+ years of precedent telling them that nobody will call them out on this shit, and I'm sure they are quite confident that's not going to change now.

[still_one]

3. Yes, President Obama, and while he may not use McConnel's quotes he will call them out on it without

a doubt

[vi5]

4. "calling them out"

is useless without pointing out the degree to which they are complete and utter hypocrites.

Again, a case could be made earlier in his term for being polite, and in situations where the stakes might not have been as high.

But this is quite possibly the highest takes moment of his presidency and it's at a time when he has little to nothing left to lose with less than a year remaining in his term. We've heard endlessly about him "keeping his powder dry". Well now is the time to use that powder.

I only wish that I were more confident that he was going to and that he also wasn't going to pay respect to Scalia's legacy but nominating someone more conservative than he would have if it was a liberal justice he was replacing.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

5. Hillary can tell them to "knock it off." That's her M.O.