22 Sep 2020 12:29 pm
Nothing illegitimate about what the Senate did in 2016, and Democrats would have done the exact same thing! Besides, Democrat voters had two opportunities to thwart that strategy. They could have elected Hillary or they could have elected a Democrat majority in the Senate. And they failed at both!IkeBana » 22 Sep 2020, 11:47 am » wrote: ↑ Oh **** please. After what the GOP has pulled with the Garland nomination and now this nomination you're gonna call anything the Democrats ever do "phony?"
Every one of these **** in 2016 said "No...no...no...there can't be a Supreme Court nomination and vote at the end of a Presidential term. An now it's...no **** problem. We already knew there wasn't anybody in the party with a shred of integrity...so this is just more confirmation.
The other option for Republicans in 2016 would have been to let the Garland nominee stand then vote against him, forcing Obama to withdraw the name and submit someone else. And Republicans could have drawn it out the same way until the clock ran out on the Obama presidency.
But those are the consequences of losing elections. The fact is that if Hillary had won, she likely wouldn't have nominated Garland anyway and chosen someone far more liberal. That's the chance the Republicans took, and they would have regretted it if Trump didn't win.
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