"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?'"
"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors...I mean it."
-- Margaret Thatcher
Obama wants badly to nominate another left-wing radical to the Court. And he has plenty in the bullpen. But he knows that if he does, it will galvanize conservative support against the nominee. In an election year, with 1/3 of the Senate seats up and the groundswell of conservative discontent manifest in people like Trump and Cruz, Republican senators would not likely tempt fate and approve a raving liberal.
But there's no way a dyed-in-the-wool communist like obammy is going to nominate a conservative. I don't think he'd even know where to find one, let alone speak the same language.
He has to select someone he thinks will appease the Senate and still keep his pinko street creds intact.
So look for him to pick a Manchurian candidate, a John Roberts stealth liberal rather than a Ruth Bader Ginsburg flag-waving loon. He'll be able to sell that candidate to people like Graham and Hatch, and of course the Democrats will march in lockstep with whatever buffoon he picks. So it will fall to Chuck Grassley, the Chairman, and Ted Cruz to stop Frankenstein in his tracks.
With any guts -- and Grassley has plenty -- he'll send a clear message to the White House: nominate an enemy of the Constitution and a full confirmation vote will never see the light of day.
And the looming threat of another traitor on the Supreme Court will gel conservative support like never before in the general election in November. So either barack is going to have to select someone palatable enough to get confirmed before then, or the Left faces their most crushing defeat since Reagan.
That's my two cents.
That treasonous bastard, we need people like him out of our government
Maybe Loveable Lindsey has himself in mind!
Go stick your face in front of Harry Reid’s exercise machine, Goober.
I recall how Orin Hatch worked with Slick Willie to come up with an acceptable nominee, and that nominee was: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Indeed, lets also not forget the historical context. In 1993, then-President Clinton reached out to Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a leading senator on the Judiciary Committee, even though Republicans were in the minority. Clinton solicited suggested nominees for a Supreme Court vacancy, and Hatch recommended Ginsburg. Clinton agreed and Ginsburg sailed through.
It's amazing Ginsburg is even on the bench
And I've heard Hatch brag about how he worked with Slick to come up with that "good" nominee. And I always remembered that, and when upon hearing Mark Levin's 2012 endorsement for Hatch's reelection, that's when I wrote Levin off my list as anyone to listen to for candidate recommendations.
With folks like Hatch and Graham on the Judiciary Committee... Maybe Republicans should refuse to even give a committee hearing to an Obama nominee, if that can be done for almost a full year.
Congress can change the number of justices on the Supreme Court without a Constitutional amendment. They did it several times in the 1800’s. Maybe it’s time they at least doubled the Court to 18. With more members, it wouldn’t be so dependent on one member to tip it this way or that.
“Consensus” means that both the GOP-e cheap labor express and the Dems amnesty/open borderers realize they have a common interest in selecting a Justice who will solidify their positions. They both fear Trump and Cruz enough to make a deal. This is a clear and present danger to the Republic.
PREDICTION: Obama will nominate Sri Srinivasan and will make a recess appointment. Next year, he will assume a permanent seat on a “consensus” vote and officially be the next Justice on the Supreme Court.
Any useful idiots that vote to approve an Obama pick should be guaranteed to be removed.