Re: Neil Gorsuch nominated for SC
Why did Obama know that the Senate was going to sit it out? Because the Republicans declared that they wouldn't hold hearings on any nominations before Scalia's corpse was cold. They painted themselves as petty partisans.
Yeah, the Democrats would
NEVER play partisan politics over a dead body, right?
1)
2000 Missouri Senate race
A movement is under way among Missouri Democrats to install Gov. Mel Carnahan's widow in the Senate seat he was seeking when he was killed in a plane crash. Missouri's new governor, Democrat Roger Wilson, said Tuesday he has offered to appoint Jean Carnahan to the Senate if her late husband gets more votes than his opponent, Republican Sen. John Ashcroft, on Nov. 7...
Wilson acknowledged he is asking voters to take a strange step on Election Day and vote for a dead man, but he said "that's what I'm going to do."
2)
2002 Minnesota Senate race - pep rally, er, funeral for Paul Wellstone
"Democrats defended the nature of the service, but they also apologized to anyone who might have been offended....The criticism didn't just come from Republicans. (MN Governor) Ventura, who walked out of the service, said Democrats "should hang their head in shame. The first part of it I thought was excellent. When Rick Kahn got up, I left the building halfway through what he was doing," said Ventura, who could appoint an interim senator to take Wellstone's seat until November 5.
"I feel used. I feel violated and duped over the fact that that turned into nothing more than a political rally," he said.
Yeah, ONLY Republicans would ever use the death of someone to play politics.
Now let's be honest: if Hillary had won and the Democrats had won the Senate, the same people here now whining about the outcome of the process would be saying crap like "the people have spoken." Well, the people spoke. They elected a Republican President, Republican Senate, Republican House, and the GOP is at its highest level in state/local offices since Calvin Coolidge was President.
And, in fact,
since the Democrats had already promised to do this anyway just two weeks before the election - nobody should be complaining about it at all.
(Of course, I don't really believe this at all.
More than half the country cannot even name ONE Supreme Court justice. And half didn't vote anyway).
But if the election had gone the other way, the same people would adopt 180 degree variant posture, yet another indication that they don't REALLY care about the filibuster, they care about getting their way.
"Oh the games people play now, every night and every day now....never meaning what they say now....and never saying what they mean..."
