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McConnell now says American people will not tolerate blocking Supreme Court nominees
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BreezyLimbo
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this would be so funny if it wasn't so depressing
RPGCrazied
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I hope democrats can stall for as long as possible. They sat on Obama's pick for a year.
sunshine and gasoline
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Spectacular display of scumbaggery.
WiiredShawn
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"The American people will not tolerate the very thing we have been doing."
Clearly, Mitch isn't terribly aware of his constituents' tolerance for stall tactics.
Clearly, Mitch isn't terribly aware of his constituents' tolerance for stall tactics.
Morrigan Stark
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Mitch McConnell continues to be the most despicable and hypocritical politician in the world. Ugh
Is there any reason why he wouldn't do that?
Psychoward
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I wonder how he can sleep at night being so blatantly hypocritical.
I also wonder how the American people that support him can be so fucking stupid.
I also wonder how the American people that support him can be so fucking stupid.
Lys Skygge
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Fuck you McConnell.
legacyzero
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And of course they're going to obstruct like fuck. And I say good on them, as hypocritical as it might sound. I can only imagine the dim shit Trump would like to try and put in there.
SchrodingerC
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Shameless and hypocrites are too nice of words for Mitch and his fucking party.
Conservatives will just rationalize this as letting the people decide through the presidential election, like what Republicans were saying during the election. We can be as upset as we want about how hypocritical this is but this will seem completely reasonable to conservatives.
Psychoward
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They're not insulting your intelligence at all, they're preying on the people that are either too ignorant or stupid to realize what the GOP does.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I thought that was Ted Cruz.
Go fuck yourself asshole. Jesus, the hipocracy is staggering.
Democrats have this thing called the soul, so don't expect them to block for four years, but that doesn't mean you can shove some anti abortion anti gay marrage fuck in the Supreme Court and expect the DNC to be ok with it.
Democrats have this thing called the soul, so don't expect them to block for four years, but that doesn't mean you can shove some anti abortion anti gay marrage fuck in the Supreme Court and expect the DNC to be ok with it.
Chie Satonaka
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He's not wrong. Now that the roles are reversed, people won't tolerate it at all.
He already knows he's a hypocrite. He just doesn't care, and all the power that his party has justifies that position.
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He already knows he's a hypocrite. He just doesn't care, and all the power that his party has justifies that position.
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_/¯More people voted against Trump than for. Democrats need to point this out every time.
DragonSworne
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Told you both sides are the same. Look at democrats using the same dirty tricks as Republicans.
Why won't democrats just bend over backwards?
Why won't democrats just bend over backwards?
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
What the fuck and of course people will eat this shit up.
NeOak
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McConnell is the Sith Emperor to Cruz's Darth
Aaron Strife
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There was no senate recess, McConnell kept holding pro forma sessions specifically to block that.
McConnell is such a massive fucking hypocrite. I mean the whole GOP is. And before anyone accuses Democrats of doing the same thing, I think holding hearings for Trump SCOTUS nominees is fine and dandy, which the Senate GOP did not do for Garland. If Garland had received hearings and was voted down, that would have been another thing.
As long as the three-fifths requirement is in place, there is a need for Trump and the GOP to go with someone reasonable and moderate if they want Democratic votes. They should not be expected to rubber stamp any right-wing lunatic Trump puts up, and frankly if they cave I'll be very disappointed.
McConnell is such a massive fucking hypocrite. I mean the whole GOP is. And before anyone accuses Democrats of doing the same thing, I think holding hearings for Trump SCOTUS nominees is fine and dandy, which the Senate GOP did not do for Garland. If Garland had received hearings and was voted down, that would have been another thing.
As long as the three-fifths requirement is in place, there is a need for Trump and the GOP to go with someone reasonable and moderate if they want Democratic votes. They should not be expected to rubber stamp any right-wing lunatic Trump puts up, and frankly if they cave I'll be very disappointed.
Dash_Riprock
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Obama should've done a lot of things.
I think it's important to keep this in the public discussion during the term but I'm not confident it'll sway any opinions.
I will piss Trump off to no end though.
CrocMother
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What else can he publicly say, really?
Nothing of substance.
Nothing of substance.
BreezyLimbo
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Optics
Because Republicans would cry out that Obamas being unfair
Maybe Obama thinks if he plays nice, Trump won't utterly destroy everything he's done.
It's a mystery why Obama doesn't do things that he should.
I expect them to cave on some promised concession that'll get reneged. I expect a repeat of the NC GOP office.
Morrigan Stark
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Ted Cruz is disgusting and awful, but I think I hate Mitch McConnell more. As despicable as Cruz's personality and ideology is, it seems that McConnell's hypocrisy just gets to me even more somehow. Plus, McConnell has far more power to do harm.
I can't believe this would be the real reason. There has to be a reason why he just couldn't do that, right?
Obama really is a centrist who believes in preserving the integrity of our institutions, even when his opponents don't, and they screw him time and time again. Obama has never been willing to play dirty.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
But you did that.....
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This right here. There are a whole host of things Obama should have done, at least according to a great many of us who voted for him. He chose to stick with his convictions and play it clean. I can respect his integrity even if I don't agree that those decisions were best for the country.
And yet they defended almost every single one of their Senate seats in this past election. I'm sure they will argue that they have a mandate.
Psychoward
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The pick is going to be egregious, Dems shouldn't roll over when their competition didn't do shit when they extended them an olive branch of a moderate. Especially when Garland is going to be almost assuredly an objectively better pick then whatever Trump puts forth.
Electric Eye
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Both the same.
One, the pick is absolutely going to be egregious.
Two, I don't want the Dems to just lie down and take it with as much at stake as there is on the Supreme Court. They fucking will, though.
We are so fucked.
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