I don't disagree with you at all I just hate that Mitch wasn't smart enough to forsee the tables being turned on him. He has given them unearned ammo to fire back at him and drag Trump into this. Now Obama is calling him out and saying rules should be applied consistently.
Remember when Trump said the Republicans didn't know how to win and he would teach them? Class is in session, Mitch.
Obama was leaving to an antagonistic Senate elected to counter him. Trump is the incumbent candidate to a Senate that supports him. Of course we would dely the SCOTUS pick.
Respectively disagree with the hypocrite part. The idea was that a president in his final term in office with no hope of reelection whose party lost the senate to the opposition shouldn't nominate before an election. That the people elected the current senate majority as a check against the direction the country was going.
If the democrats had won 2016, well, that could be seen as a refutation and authorization to nominate. The fact that Trump won in 2016 reinforces the idea that people were skeptical of Obamunism, and Obamunist judges. That the republican senate majority held in 2018 also reinforces that.
The fact is, Trump has the support of the people right now, and is running for office while previously Obama was out of favor in the lead up to an election he couldn't even participate in.
There is no hypocrisy here as the situations are not the same, and the principle involved is consistent. The equivalent scenario would be if, in 2024, democrats had control of the senate and Trump was in his final year, and some other republican was running for re-election. We all know for damn sure democrats would 100% block it. They'd block even if it was day 1 if they could, and would block for all 8 years shamelessly.
We're literally weeks away from electing Trump to his second term, and I'm literally not sure if he's even gotten 100% of his initial appointments yet. I think he might have, but they blocked his starting day 1 cabinet for years.
Though I do overall agree with your sentiment that all is fair. With the democrats openly declaring they will stack the Supreme Court next time they are in power, with the openly abusing the impeachment mechanic, with them openly planning on contesting an election they know they are going to lose, most likely causing a civil war would could lead into a world war...
Fuck the democrats. Give them nothing, and take from them everything. Only once they are completely routed can the spell be broken and they can have a chance to mentally heal. As is right now, they've so deeply embraced sin, the various weaknesses of the mind, that they are incapable of self correction.
It is a game and that's why republican MUST confirm a new justice before the election.
If they don't then democrats will be energized to vote for a Biden-named justice. He'll say he's going to nominate a lesbian woman of color who's an illegal immigrant and they'll all pokemon go to the polls to vote for the supreme court not for Biden.
If Trump gets a replacement confirmed then the oldest one at 82 is Breyer and will almost certainly last 4 years so they will not have the court as a reason to vote. They could vote out of spite for fast tracking a replacement right before the election, but they're already full of spite.
Regardless of the need to do it because of a contentious election people need to realize that politics is not a game of footsies.
Is McConnel going to be a hypocrite? Yes. So the fuck what??? This isn't a game this is for keeps. The GOP owns the Senate, they should wield power.
Power flows to those that use it, it has flowed left for a century because the left isn't afraid to use it.
I don't disagree with you at all I just hate that Mitch wasn't smart enough to forsee the tables being turned on him. He has given them unearned ammo to fire back at him and drag Trump into this. Now Obama is calling him out and saying rules should be applied consistently.
Remember when Trump said the Republicans didn't know how to win and he would teach them? Class is in session, Mitch.
Here's a very simple response for Mitch.
Respectively disagree with the hypocrite part. The idea was that a president in his final term in office with no hope of reelection whose party lost the senate to the opposition shouldn't nominate before an election. That the people elected the current senate majority as a check against the direction the country was going.
If the democrats had won 2016, well, that could be seen as a refutation and authorization to nominate. The fact that Trump won in 2016 reinforces the idea that people were skeptical of Obamunism, and Obamunist judges. That the republican senate majority held in 2018 also reinforces that.
The fact is, Trump has the support of the people right now, and is running for office while previously Obama was out of favor in the lead up to an election he couldn't even participate in.
There is no hypocrisy here as the situations are not the same, and the principle involved is consistent. The equivalent scenario would be if, in 2024, democrats had control of the senate and Trump was in his final year, and some other republican was running for re-election. We all know for damn sure democrats would 100% block it. They'd block even if it was day 1 if they could, and would block for all 8 years shamelessly.
We're literally weeks away from electing Trump to his second term, and I'm literally not sure if he's even gotten 100% of his initial appointments yet. I think he might have, but they blocked his starting day 1 cabinet for years.
Though I do overall agree with your sentiment that all is fair. With the democrats openly declaring they will stack the Supreme Court next time they are in power, with the openly abusing the impeachment mechanic, with them openly planning on contesting an election they know they are going to lose, most likely causing a civil war would could lead into a world war...
Fuck the democrats. Give them nothing, and take from them everything. Only once they are completely routed can the spell be broken and they can have a chance to mentally heal. As is right now, they've so deeply embraced sin, the various weaknesses of the mind, that they are incapable of self correction.
All well and good but a simple "Life isn't fair" is good enough. The senate has the power to confirm or not as they see fit.
It's not hypocritical. He was and is represented his base. That's his job.
It is a game and that's why republican MUST confirm a new justice before the election.
If they don't then democrats will be energized to vote for a Biden-named justice. He'll say he's going to nominate a lesbian woman of color who's an illegal immigrant and they'll all pokemon go to the polls to vote for the supreme court not for Biden.
If Trump gets a replacement confirmed then the oldest one at 82 is Breyer and will almost certainly last 4 years so they will not have the court as a reason to vote. They could vote out of spite for fast tracking a replacement right before the election, but they're already full of spite.