GOP Hypocricy
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Started by joj - Sept. 21, 2020, 8:30 p.m.

The GOP hypocrisy is about to unfold so I copied and pasted to share:

2016: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016: Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016: Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016: Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016: Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016: Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

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When this Trump nominee is sworn in to the Supreme Court and if the Democrats have control of all branches of government, don't cry me a river of tears when the party goes radical left.  A result I definitely do NOT want.  When they change the rules of the Senate and 51 votes results in 15 Supreme Court seats, universal health care, extreme progressive tax rates, free college, and a climate agenda....  don't cry me a river of your tears.  You can lay the blame at the feet of the lying GOP.

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By wglassfo - Sept. 22, 2020, 2:36 a.m.
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I think there are many Dems saying different things then and now

I think Obama and Biden were two of more than just two

Don't get me wrong, as both parties will say anything to suit the present situation

Biden has been very bad saying many things previously and today he sings a different tune

However Biden has the MSN at his back so fact checking then and now doesn't get the coverage

However some of the smaller print articles do fact check, but Biden gets a free ride as not many read smaller print coverage

Breibart is very good at fact checking Biden but who reads Breibart

Polls show approx 70% plus want a SC as soon as  possible, before the election

I said approx because that number will be sure to change, but it is a strong majority

 

By TimNew - Sept. 22, 2020, 4:14 a.m.
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I'll note the plethora of Dem quotes supporting the appointment 4 years ago are excluded from your list.  There is hypocrisy on both sides and only a hypocrite would fail to notice.


One step further.  You have Pelosi opening threatening to use Impeachment as a form of obstruction and you see statements like "If they rush this through,  we're gonna burn the whole MFer down" receive acceptance, if not support.   I don't care how much you oppose republicans.   Those reasons can't be good enough to support things like these.  

By metmike - Sept. 22, 2020, 9:49 a.m.
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I agree with all points!



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