OK, the Big Question

[no_hypocrisy]

We now have a template(s) established.

What is to stop future republican Senates from refusing to hold hearings and voting on any USSC nominee from a democratic WH?

Do you think they'll revert to the 12-months before an election strategy?

What about not holding hearings at all, period, for any length of a term of a democratic President? Day One, January 20. Sorry, no USSC Justice for you.

How do you stop this BS?

[Wounded Bear]

1. That's basically what McConnell said about Hillary if she won...

No SC appointments for 4 years.

[bronxiteforever]

2. Biden must be prepared to have no GOP support

The below Politico article shows how the GOP stopped Obama’s policies after he was elected in 2008. We will have to mobilize quickly for the huge Senate battles of 2022. Many Senate GOP seats will be open. Electoral victories must be strung together to give the Biden Administration a chance. It means politics will never end but if we sleep after a victory, we die. I will be prepared to donate for the 2022 races as soon as I can.

“But at the House GOP retreat the next day at a posh resort in the Virginia mountains, there was no woe-is-us vibe. The leadership even replayed the video of the stimulus vote—not to bemoan Obama’s overwhelming victory, but to hail the unanimous partisan resistance. The conference responded with a standing ovation.

“I know all of you are pumped about the vote,” said Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Republican whip. “We’ll have more to come!”

The Republicans were pumped because they saw a path out of the political wilderness. They were convinced that even if Obama kept winning policy battles, they could win the broader messaging war simply by remaining unified and fighting him on everything. Their conference chairman, a then-obscure Indiana conservative named Mike Pence, underscored the point with a clip from Patton, showing the general rallying his troops for war against their Nazi enemy: “We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time! We’re going to go through him like crap through a goose!”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/republican-party-obstructionism-victory-trump-214498