McConnell fends off accusations of hypocrisy over holding Supreme Court vote

Politico ^ | Sept 21, 2020 | Marianne LeVine

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back Monday against Democratic allegations of hypocrisy over holding a vote this year on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement, arguing that historical precedent is on his side.

Democrats are accusing McConnell and other Republicans of a double standard when it comes to the Supreme Court, citing McConnell’s 2016 decision to block President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland because it was an election year. But McConnell and Senate Republicans claim that 2016 was different because the White House and Senate were controlled by different parties...

“Apart from that one strange exception, no Senate has failed to confirm a nominee in the circumstances that face us now,” McConnell said, referring to Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who served on the high court in the 1960s but resigned over ethics issues.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

McConnell should say when the dems hold Biden to the same standard they held Kavanaugh then he will discuss hypocrisy.

[Seruzawa]

Libs:

[Dogbert41]

I hope we don’t do this, because Chucky Schumer definitely would wait for the next election. We all know this.

SARCASM

[jdsteel]

Democrats accusing someone else of hypocrisy is hubris of the highest order.

[Gen.Blather]

I would be terrible in politics. Someone would piece together video after video of me sayin, “Kiss my a$$.”

[Sarah Barracuda]

Its funny..if Hillary Clinton were President right now and the Dems controlled the Senate, they would have already confirmed a new judge

[Bonemaker]

[SmokingJoe]

I watched the speech. He didn't fend off nuthin. He aggressively reiterated it was going to be full speed ahead and why, citing historical precedents.

[conservative98]

1. "Jamming" and "ramming" through Supreme Court nominee? So, complying with the Constitution, as every previous president did under exactly the same circumstances, is now characterized as "jamming" and "ramming."— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 21, 2020

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

First, RBG was not murdered. Scalia, maybe was.

Second, Obama always was rubbing the republican house and senate's noses in dung and never compromised with them. Elections have consequences

Third, president nominates and Senate advises.

Too bad.

[conservative98]

2. The Democrats threatening to pack the Court is given a shrug. Republican senators must ignore Biden and his party, who did more to politicize and abuse the judicial confirmation process over the last several decades than any senator and group of senators in American history.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) September 21, 2020

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The libs have long ago voided any right to call someone else a hypocrite. The libs invented hypocrisy.

By the way, a total non sequitur, but I find it ironic that the Republicans are now the champions of the little guy, and the Democrats are the party of big corporations and globalists. My how the worm turns!
 

[Fungi]

Notice the language: “fends off?” He is not “fending off’ anything, just doing what the constitution requires. Rabid liberals are very good at manipulating language to accuse and imply guilt.

[silverleaf]

Imagine being upset by being called ‘“hypocrite” by the party that publicly savaged Brett Kavanaugh for NOTHING

[David]

Further, the clean response is this. Republican's held a voting edge in the Senate in 2016. So it would have been a useless effort to hold a vote on Garland because he was not going to be confirmed in the context of an obvious Presidential succession year in which if the R's prevailed, an R nominee would have been (and was) quite different than Garland.

If the Dems wanted it any clearer in the context of the Constitutional requirements, the Senate would have advised in the negative and would not have consented to Garland.

That is exactly where you are today. The President will send a nominee to the Senate to which the Senate would advise in the positive and would consent.

[tennmountainman]

No liberal words, articles, or riots will stop this confirmation train.

[depressed in 06]

The queens of hypocrisy have a long way to go, before, they can accuse anyone of hypocrisy.

[spokeshave]

There is only a finite amount of hypocrisy in the universe same as for shadenfreude.

[freedumb2003]

>>There is only a finite amount of hypocrisy in the universe same as for shadenfreude.<<

You would think so but democrats and liberals manifacture them from thin air. Some sort of matter to BS trchbology.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Democrats are accusing McConnell and other Republicans of a double standard when it comes to the Supreme Court, citing McConnell’s 2016 decision to block President Barack Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland because it was an election year.

Two big differences:

1) Obama wasn't a Republican.
2) We didn't kill Ginsburg.