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To: Kaslin
Democrats are using the fact that the outgoing President's final year candidate Garland did not have a hearing.

Perhaps they should consider President Thomas Jefferson's views on such actions by a President in his final months:

"I have thought it right to take no part myself in proposing measures, the execution of which will devolve on my successor. I am therefore chiefly an unmeddling listener to what others say. On the same ground, I shall make no new appointments which can be deferred... thinking it fair to leave to my successor to select the agents for his own administration." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1808. ME 12:219

"I should not feel justified in directing measures which those who are to execute them would disapprove." --Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 1808. ME 12:195

"[My predecessor in the office of the President made several] last appointments to office... [which] were among my most ardent political enemies, from whom no faithful cooperation could ever be expected, and laid me under the embarrassment of acting through men whose views were to defeat mine, or to encounter the odium of putting others in their places. It seems but common justice to leave a successor free to act by instruments of his own choice." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1804. ME 11:29

"It would be with extreme reluctance that, so near the time of my own retirement, I should proceed to name any high officer, especially one who must be of the intimate councils of my successor, and who ought of course to be in his unreserved confidence." --Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1808. ME 12:64

"It is but common decency to leave to my successor the moulding of his own business." --Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 1793. ME 9:12

Are not these strong statements on the subject from the mind of the genius who authored the nation's Declaration of Independence pertinent to current discussions?
18 posted on 02/04/2017 11:33:44 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

Liberals only listen to Thomas Jefferson’s words when they like what it says And it helps promote their agenda.


25 posted on 02/04/2017 12:02:26 PM PST by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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