Conservatives Quickly Refuse Any Obama Court Replacement After Antonin Scalia's Death

[liberalnarb]

Source: HUFFINGTON POST

It took only a few minutes after news broke of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death on Saturday for conservatives to demand that Senate Republicans block any replacement nominated by President Barack Obama.

It took just a little while more for Republican leadership to agree with them.

In a swift statement designed to warn Barack Obama against even nominating a replacement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pledged to sit on his hands for the remaining 11 months of the president's term.

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice," the statement read. "Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President."


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scalia-obama-replacement_us_56bfabe4e4b08ffac1258cf5?cps=gravity_5059_-6186591079844717732

[basselope]

1. Its amazing how tone deaf the GOP is

They could actually give a candidate as bad as Clinton a chance to win if they make the election ABOUT the Supreme Court.

[bjobotts]

25. Shows how partisan they really are

[wordpix]

60. is the body even cold yet? How transparent a power grabber can you be, Turtle?

[hollowdweller]

66. Clinton might appoint Obama

[pamela]

2. Obstruction is the Republican default mode. n/t

[bjobotts]

28. We will retake the senate plus a dem president

So maybe it's best to wait when these extremists are out of power.
2/3rds of seats up for reelection in senate are republican so not to worry. Plus all the repub candidates for president are pathetic so we will have a dem president too.

[bjobotts]

29. Scalia was as partisan as they come

[demosocialist]

3. They did have a voice his name is Pres. Barrack Obama!

Fuck you asshole

[Eric J in MN]

27. Yes, we re-elected Obama for another 4 years, not another 3 years.

NT

[PassingFair]

63. I gave u a heart...

Because of your little picture.... I love it!

[bjobotts]

30. If we had repub pres they'd demand he nominate.

[BillZBubb]

4. If the repugs try to block a nominee for spurious reasons...

they'll lose the Senate in November. The Democrats can destroy them on this issue.

[houston16revival]

11. It is a hanging fastball, ain't it?

Best of all, the Rethugs appear not to realize at all the need
to appear reasonable

[BillZBubb]

23. Yep, the Democrats just need to let the repugs hang themselves!

[RobinA]

54. Yep.

And add the fact that filling the Scalia seat is no lose for Dems, since no one could be worse. Worst case scenario, a draw.

[DeadLetterOffice]

5. AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! eom

[davepc]

6. This isint so no name low level federal court judge.

Watch them pull this shit with SCOTUS an get obliterated.

[Botany]

7. From a DU post on John Fugelsang

I like when the ppl praising Scalia's devotion to the constitution also demand POTUS not be allowed to appoint a replacement.
https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/698659631439220736

[JudyM]

24. Right on the money, that one. Thanks, Botany.

[houston16revival]

8. Hey Mitch McConnell!!

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN - in 2012, remember?

[Chasstev365]

9. Nice Try Mitch!

READ THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION, DOUCHE BAG! The GOP continuously acts like little children: if things don't go their way, they must try to change the rules mid-game.

[Akicita]

10. I think President Obama can do a recess appointment after Jan. 3

when Congress's term ends. Obama's term doesn't end until Jan. 20.

[houston16revival]

12. OH, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ............

OH BABY!

Would THAT spark a case ...................... lol

[Geronimoe]

15. I doubt it

there has to be a compelling reason, There are still 8 justices. They don't work much of the year.

[Geronimoe]

13. They should be careful what they wish for

Bernie isn't going to appoint a corporatist like Obama.

[elljay]

31. No, Though

the bar is REALLY LOW for a replacement who would be better than Scalia!

[bjobotts]

41. all nominations must get past the senate 1st

[liberalnarb]

43. Obama is a DLC Dem. Corporatist is too far.

[bearssoapbox]

14. Why should they change now?

They've obstructed him since even before he was sworn in.




This meeting wasn't a spur of the moment thing.

[bjobotts]

49. The Book exposing this conspiracy"Ask Not What Good We Do"

One even stated they would act like the Taliban in sabotaging Obama. Their only priority was making Obama a one term president. This is known as the "Caucus Rm Conspiracy" as they met to conspire in the Caucus rm restaurant. Their defense ..."This what the opposition is supposed to do" Wrong. A conspiracy is not opposition. A conspiracy to hurt the American people on purpose to gain power during a time of war is sedition and treason. In the military they would have been courtmarshaled or shot but these thugs didn't even lose their jobs. About as un-American as it gets, to conspire to make our democratically elected president a one term president as your highest priority. It's like saying fuck the people. In fact is is saying fuck the people.

[bearssoapbox]

71. Thank you.

I'll have my wife pick that up from the library.

What's so maddening is that they went after him and his policies without regard of the ramifications to the country and even the world.

gingrich's remark is very telling. "You will remember this day," Draper reports Newt Gingrich as saying on the way out. "You’ll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown."

Those smug, sickening smiles, their "my shit don't stink" and the "I've got mine, FUCK THE REST OF YOU", of most of the teabaggers and reTHUGliCONS is also very disgusting.



Definitely not good for the blood pressure.

[Hortensis]

16. GOP has LEGAL ability to refuse to approve any Obama nominee

through the end of his term.

It's never been done before, but the hard right, including the ultraconservative plutocrats controlling most of the right, is desperate. They are already very much a minority and demographics changes will lose them all their gains and dreams for their future -- unless they can pack the supreme Court with conservative extremists who will ignore the societal will and impose their own onAmerica for the next three decades or so.

Scalia's death should be Game Over for them, but it it is not.

[lark]

19. Well, they won't get anything else they want from the SCOTUS for awhile.

It's tied 4-4 now so they can't pull another Citizens United or Bush v Gore anytime soon. Good.

[mwrguy]

20. They did it to Tyler

[lark]

17. FU Mitch McConnell and your little dog too.

You should be strung up by your thumbs for treason. The people did make a choice and Obama is it, not you or your 99% hating cronies.

Hope it's legal for Obama to make recess appointments to the SCOTUS. Does anyone know if this is OK?

[Xipe Totec]

18. They said exactly the same thing right after Obama took office. nt

[patricia92243]

21. Another one or two could die. They are all old. Waiting around is asinine.

[PatrynXX]

22. bit odd how this works

they risk burning the constitution on the outside chance they'll have an even further right government in November course the odds are if they take Obama's likely centrist pick it would be better than the left wing pick Bernie would and naturally if your pro Bernie that means voting for Real Democrats. Hmmm Centrist or a Liberal your call Mitch

[Beacool]

26. Turtle Man must have broken something in his rush to release this statement.

[JohnnyRingo]

32. If The Almighty wanted that to happen...

...He wouldn't have taken Scalia during Obama's term, would He? The GOP should have a hard time arguing with that logic.

[avaistheone1]

38. ^^^^^^A message from on High

[elmac]

33. A tweet from John Fugelsang

I like when the ppl praising Scalia's devotion to the constitution also demand POTUS not be allowed to appoint a replacement.

[rpannier]

34. If Scalia had died two days after the 2012 election

McConnell would be blocking any nomination
He is a total douche... almost as bad as the douche scalia

[lordsummerisle]

35. Reminds me of this

[Monk06]

36. If they respect Scalia so much how come they can't wait for his body to get cold before the say FUBO

[wordpix]

62. just confirms they have no class---what do you expect from people who take bribes daily?

[humbled_opinion]

37. They are using the issue to galvanize

their religious nutcase base...

[elmac]

39. Obama just told Mitch

to take a flying F--- at the moon

[FailureToCommunicate]

40. President Obama just stated his intention for a timely nomination and vote on replacement as

the Constitution suggests.

[Downwinder]

44. That's what Americans put him there to do.

[7962]

42. This could be his pick: Sri Srinivasan. He was unanimously approved by the Senate.

So why wouldnt they approve him again? He's an Obama appointee, so obviously he thinks the guy is qualified

[bjobotts]

52. Maddow suggested head of NSA

[7962]

53. Really? Hell, I dont think some Dems would approve that!

I mean, its the NSA and the snooping etc!!

[cstanleytech]

45. Unless there is a rule against it I would not object to him nominating Giffords to the court.

Lets see if the republicans are willing to shoot themselves in the foot and try to block her from getting the seat.

[former9thward]

64. You must not know her medical condition.

She can barely talk.

[cstanleytech]

65. Not insurmountable assuming of course she accepted the nomination. nt

[Odin2005]

46. I knew this was going to happen.

[liberalnarb]

47. It happened. And happened FAST

[UpInArms]

48. if this doesn't prove that these freaks do not want to work for the people

they are only for their Greed Old Pig party

[liberalnarb]

51. They're just making themselves look stupid

considering that polls show that both Hillary and Bernie would beat the repuke nominee in the general. I can wait and see Hillary/Bernie's nominee.

[wordpix]

61. I was thinking of Napoleon the Pig myself (from Animal Farm)

change the rules to grab more power. We see what you're doing, Mitch

[EllieBC]

50. Damn. My toddler is more cooperative than they are.

😐

[passiveporcupine]

55. Well then, we should be able to sit on their paychecks.

Right?

In a swift statement designed to warn Barack Obama against even nominating a replacement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) pledged to sit on his hands for the remaining 11 months of the president's term.

[truthisfreedom]

56. Fine! See what it gets you to not have 9 justices.

[liberalnarb]

57. Thats right. Its now evened out.

though death is unfortunate, I would have preferred removal from office.

[mdbl]

58. As usual they are there to obstruct

Not serve the interests of their constituents.

[Dont call me Shirley]

59. OBSTRUCTIONISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hollowdweller]

67. I know how the GOP feels though

When Bush got to appoint Thomas to replace Marshall I felt like they feel now.

But I feel like they will really make good on leaving the position open because they do not want the court to move to the center.

What about when Sanders or Clinton wins? Will the GOP let the new president appoint anybody? I just don't see it happening.

Until the GOP is totally discredited as a party I think they will continue scorch and burn.

[liberalnarb]

68. You don't see it happening?

If they "sit on their hands" for eight years they're gonna be in trouble.

[alp227]

69. as much was said in the debate.

GOP candidates: Wait on new justice

“If (Obama) were to nominate somebody, let’s have him pick somebody that is going to have unanimous approval and such widespread approval across the country that this could happen without a lot of recrimination,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich said. “I don’t think that’s going to happen. I would like the president to just, for once here, put the country first here.

“We’re going to have an election for president very soon, and the people will understand what’s at stake in that election,” Kasich said. “And so I believe that the president should not move forward, and I think we ought to let the next president of the United State decide who is going to run that Supreme Court with the vote of the people.”

In Saturday’s debate, New York billionaire Donald Trump called Scalia’s death a tremendous blow to conservatism and the country, adding no one can block Obama from nominating a justice.

“He’s going to do it whether I’m OK with it or not,” said Trump, the winner of the New Hampshire primary and the front-runner in South Carolina’s primary, next Saturday. “It’s up to (Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell and everybody else to stop it. It’s called delay, delay, delay.”

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article60318206.html#storylink=cpy

[TeamPooka]

70. What other parts of his job do they want Obama to not do? If we're attacked by ISIS

do they want us to wait to respond in any way for a year?
Idiots.