Pic Of The Moment: Republicans Grind Entire Judicial Nomination Process To A Crawl

[EarlG]

It’s Not Just Merrick Garland: Republicans Are Blocking So Many Nominees It's Caused a Judicial Emergency

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[mreilly]

1. Please don't confuse Republicans with facts...

.... when it's just so much easier for them to shriek talking points like Joe Biden once said in 1992 there was no need to confirm any Supreme Court justices (or whatever). Or Hillary murdered hundreds at Benghazi. Or Liz Warren (my Senator from MA) once lied about having Native American heritage (it was proven later she did but who cares) so let's bray endlessly about her dishonesty and call her Liawatha like a crying two-year old (but of course it's perfectly OK for Republicans to lie as much as they like). Or how everyone but them is drinking the Kool-Aid as they breathlessly wait for Fox News/Trump to tell them what to think. Or....

[NewJeffCT]

2. And Bush's nominees

on average, were more conservative than Obama's or Clinton's were liberal. Granted, there were exceptions here and there, but Republicans in the Senate have been far more obstructionist than Democrats.

[Johonny]

3. GOP voters complain the government doesn't work, vote for people that don't do their job

then get angry that the government they created didn't work. So to solve this they vote for candidates that promise them the government works best when it doesn't work, once in office the GOP makes sure the government doesn't work, then their voters get angrier..etc this cycle runs apparently until the end of time.

[LuckyLib]

8. This is it in a nutshell. Needs to be repeated to

every Republican family member, neighbor, and co-worker you have. Friends? I don't have any Republican friends - we would have nothing in common in terms of world view.

[oldandhappy]

4. sure helps if your name is Bush

[Botany]

5. Republican judges are the firewall in the GOP's protection of their powers.

After the 2004 election in OH two low level members of the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland)
BOE were convicted of rigging the recount and they were given prison time in the hopes they
would tell who or whom had then fix the count. A republican judge set both of them free.

[fbc]

6. I guess nth-dimensional chess turned out to be checkers.

Obama squandered his opportunity to have an even bigger impact on the country when he let incompetents like Debbie Wasserman Schultz run the party. I still consider him to be a great president, but he could have been more.

[lastlib]

15. Or pick-up sticks....... eom

[RussBLib]

7. I'll bet if gets no better if Hillary become Prez

unless, of course, Dems can re-take the House and Senate.

It's a goddamn shame and miscarriage of justice that so many voters are blaming "both" parties for the gridlock, when it's just blatantly Republicans. It's that pesky freedom of speech thing, which enables assholes like Fox and right-wing radio hatemongers to pollute the airwaves and the minds of voters.

[Bill USA]

9. recommended, bookmarked! Welcome to the Republican Dystopia, where effective government,

responsible to all people (even us commoners) is undermined at every turn by the Party of Plutocracy: the GOP.

[geretogo]

10. This normal for a Banana Republic like ours . We have been ruled by one mafia family for the last 36

years ; the the Rethuglicano crime family . Only the faces change , not the dictates of the Godfather .

[cstanleytech]

11. If the Democrats had done this to Bush they would have been called traitors......

of course if its the Republicans doing it to a black Democratic president then they are called patriots.

[Hawaii Hiker]

12. If Dems win and take back senate, I hope judicial confirmations

become a #1 priority.....Nearly 100 judges were confirmed in 2014, after the nuclear option was invoked (back in Nov 2013) and a few were good controversial nominees to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Barack_Obama

[rladdi]

13. One of the huge sins of this is that when the Democrats had the power they did nothing

to get the nominations passed. The Democrats have done this for decades, relying on the Republicans to do their work. When will the Democrats wake up to the real facts, that they have to work and get the Democrats majority back.
The Republicans don't care about our judicial system. its working well for them. Just review the rulings and see how Bush nominations have ruled.

[lastlib]

14. So much for the Republican "belief" in the rule of law.....

Clearly, they want virtual dictatorship. They don't want to govern, they want to RULE.

[libodem]

16. President Obama

Has been far too patient with theses numbskulls who insist on obstruction. I'd be hopping mad.

[lonestarnot]

17. Asshat pugs one and all, doing a great job of fucking the country with their block heads top to

bottom. Water main broke over the weekend. Regular occurrence. Why shouldn't there be a judicial emergency. Got to keep that judicial richie rich economy in place. Crumble crumble crumble crumbs.

[PeterGM]

18. A question for any voter.

If democratic cooperation with a republican president leads to a worse outcome (in terms of economics) than the republican obstruction of a democratic one ... Which strategy is the best option?