President Barack Obama mocked Republicans on Thursday for the shifting rhetoric they’ve used to justify blocking the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Some of the same folks who just a while back said, ‘Well, we can’t have hearings and vote for the guy Obama nominated because we’re so close to the election, we should let the next president make the nomination.’ Right? That’s what they said.” Obama said at a rally in Florida. “So now they think Hillary might win. They say, ‘Well, we might block hers, too.’ Wait. But I thought you said that the people were going to decide.”
November’s election was the reason GOP leaders gave when they signaled almost immediately after Scalia’s death in February that they planned to block anyone Obama nominated, no matter who it was. Indeed, Judge Merrick Garland — a moderate judge who has been praised by Republicans in the past — has received no hearings or votes since the President nominated him. Now, however, some GOP senators are saying publicly and privately that they plan to block Hillary Clinton’s nominees to the court as well if she becomes President.
“Can I talk to the press for a second?” Obama said Thursday. “What happened? Do we have a ‘run back the tape’? Do we have to kind of go, ‘well, what happened’? That’s what they said and now they’re saying something entirely different. Come on, man.”
He argued that Republicans and Democrats cannot be blamed equally for congressional gridlock.
“It’s just not true.”
Yes! This was aimed directly at Chuck Todd among the other false equivalency kings and queens.
Are we headed towards a purge of the Supreme Court by the GOP? Two of the three most elderly Justices are Dem appointees.
Hypocrisy thy name is Chuck Todd.
Well, in fairness; Andrea Mitchell, Wolf Blitzer, Joe Scarborough…
The list is long, and I only have 30 minutes for lunch.
Those people think being a lame duck takes you off the stage. Fools.
I know there’s no way to legally limit the salaries of newscasters, but I think it would make a nice little app to put an icon next to the newscaster which lists his salary, and which corporate conglomerate pays the salary, along with clickable icons for the news group information.
I’m giving this away—go ahead and become a thousand-aire, someone.
Heck, you can put a database of the newscaster’s opinions and statements on various issues.