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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReich Wing Senators Run and Hide to Avoid Questions About SCOTUS Obstruction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-senators-nominee-scalia_us_56cf5cf9e4b03260bf75fd71snip:
WASHINGTON -- Republican senators are finding themselves in the hot seat for promising to block President Barack Obama's potential nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
As Democrats tried to raise the pressure on their recalcitrant colleagues on Thursday by accusing them of abandoning their responsibility to the Constitution, Republicans on Capitol Hill were ducking and dodging reporters' questions on what's shaping up to be one of the biggest battles in Washington.
Several senators ran away from The Huffington Post this week as we tried to ask if they thought a Supreme Court nominee should get a hearing.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said she had to "go vote," even though she could have talked as she walked to an elevator down the hall. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) didn't even let HuffPost get the full question out before saying, "I don't do hallway interviews." Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said he had to "run to a meeting" and disappeared into an elevator. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) listened to the question and, with a blank look, said, "I'm not doing any interviews."
Forget run. More like slink and cower. Better if they were all frogmarched out of Washington.
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Reich Wing Senators Run and Hide to Avoid Questions About SCOTUS Obstruction (Original Post)
kairos12
Feb 2016
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lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)1. Hah!!
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Senator Joni Ernst, SENATOR of the fucking United States of America Joni Ernst
it makes my stomach sick and my head ache to hear that name, that moron, that racist with that title.
God dammit, how sick is that.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)3. Do you mean to say that you don't support
Senator Breadbags McCutyrnutzoff?