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GOP Supreme Court blockade showing early cracks
Politico ^ | March 16, 2016 | Burgess Everett and Eliza Collins

Posted on 03/16/2016 10:47:10 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

Let them meet. It won’t change a thing. This or any other nomination never makes it to the floor.

It,s the Biden Rule.


21 posted on 03/16/2016 11:02:28 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: C19fan

I’m going to agree with something I read today. The GOP are juts waiting for the primaries to finish to stab us in the back on this. The GOP is worthless and the GOP Senate has always been the bottom of the GOP barrel. BOHICA.


22 posted on 03/16/2016 11:04:47 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; ObozoMustGo2012

The Tea Party was a protest movement without a head, without a decision-making organization.

Trump represents a protest movement with an organization that can make decisions and therefore, can execute vetting process.


23 posted on 03/16/2016 11:08:26 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: CWW
Oh, I hear you on Hatch's pronouncements.

One thing you can count on: He's going to run his mouth.

My original point is still valid. Obama is going to beat the hell out of Senate Republicans for refusing to give a hearing/vote to a nominee that Hatch not only approved, but endorsed.

Hatch handed him that weapon, and he's going to use it. Very effectively, I bet.

24 posted on 03/16/2016 11:13:30 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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Look - you have to take it with a grain of salt. This is a Politico article, after all. They have an agenda.


25 posted on 03/16/2016 11:15:13 AM PDT by CWW (Pray for God's Protection!)
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To: CWW
And right on time, here we go!

The Hill ‏@thehill 3m3 minutes ago
Hatch says he's open to a lame-duck hearing for Garland: http://hill.cm/qDddumC

Yeah, that bad guy Trump is really killing the party. We should allow follow the wise counsel of our seasoned elites.

26 posted on 03/16/2016 11:16:50 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Yeah. So was Rubio. The Tea Party really needs to work on its vetting process.

Flake too.

27 posted on 03/16/2016 11:17:07 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Politics: from the greek "poly" [many] and the english "ticks" [blood sucking parasites])
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To: C19fan

This is the Obama media trying to get his nominee through so they can marvel at the skill of their Magic Negro one more time. Any Republican who breaks this SCOTUS blockade is a dead duck politically.


28 posted on 03/16/2016 11:34:33 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: C19fan

RINO stampede gaining energy. I’m so not shocked. Self-preservation first, the people be damned.


29 posted on 03/16/2016 11:40:25 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Kabuki Theatre, they’ll all-in to act like they’ll oppose then fold. Getting old.


30 posted on 03/16/2016 11:48:32 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: C19fan

There was never a blockade. More of a mirage. A hologram.


31 posted on 03/16/2016 11:57:44 AM PDT by lurk
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The key phrase here is “a handful

The key phrase here is “a handful”. There is not going to be a new justice appointed this year. I have a feeling this subject came up when Trump spoke to McConnell the other day.


32 posted on 03/16/2016 12:00:02 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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And this “handful” may be open to merely meeting with Judge Garland for the purpose of explaining that the Senate cannot proceed with the approval process due to the sacrosanct and inviolable Biden rule, thereby hoisting the Dems upon their own petard. There may be nothing to this at all.


33 posted on 03/16/2016 1:13:11 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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I believe there is nothing to this. Even the Republicans are not stupid enough to give up a SCOTUS nomination.


34 posted on 03/16/2016 3:24:50 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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