Rohde said “no candidate exists on the face of the Earth” that the Republicans would confirm if nominated by Obama, adding: “The Republican position is that the only thing that matters here is the party of the nominator.”

I don't think the republicans would appoint anyone that a current democratic president put forth if they were white, red, yellow, or green. This is obviously about pure politics.

...and that they can continue to have a Supreme Court that will do the bidding of the conservatives in our government. They have no problem with a "political" Supreme Court, so long as they rule for their side. Democracy or rule of the people have little to do with their desires and wishes.

The did allow Obamacare after all. Granted, there's probably a dozen decisions handed down that can be grabbed on by either side to prove they are unbalanced. If they were really conservative, you would see abortions outlawed as well as gay marriage probably. It's probably best to say its not liberal as much as some of us would like...

moreso than it is a status quo for the insurance companies.

But you can't argue its a conservative program either given that it was basically voted in on party lines.

It's always "along party lines". Which is why I wonder every day of my life why any voter would put the Greedy Old Party in office. The way they have treated the Obamas is just icing on their cake, and completes my disgust of them.

Regardless of the 'party line' vote, had the exact same program been presented by a Republican President, the vote would've gone the exact opposite way (assuming the GOP felt some real pressure to actually do some kind of health care reform).

It's absolutely a 'free-market' solution to the particular problem at hand, through and through.

To argue the Supreme's 'lean liberal' on the basis of a 5-4 vote upholding Obamacare ... is highly tenuous. Because it's NOT a particularly 'liberal' program.

A Democrat nominating a candidate who would shift the Court to a 5-4 Left leaning Court would be opposed by the Republicans regardless of the race or gender of that President. These animals will even attack the Pope.

...they wouldn't let Bill, Jimmy, Lyndon, John, Harry, or Franklin fill Scalia's seat either.

Apparently the Republican "originalists" think a black President only gets 3/5 of a term.

If it'd President Kerry, or Clinton, or Biden, or Richardson... I think the Republicans would figure they could run out the clock for 11 months. Maybe their unity is about race, maybe, but I think it's mostly about the conservative tendency to delegitimize anyone with a D behind their name. It's about Republican tribalism once more trumping American loyalty.

while there is no doubt some racism playing into it, I think it would be the same with anybody with a (D) after their name - remember, the death of Vince Foster had almost as many investigations as Benghazi, and the GOP investigated Socks the Cat under Clinton. The Republicans also changed the senate rules when they got the majority under Clinton to slow down his ability to appoint federal judges as well.

I'm also sure that if Hillary had won in 2008, we'd be seeing almost as many articles about sexism and the GOP as opposed to racism and the GOP with Obama.

After all the other bullshit they pulled over the last 7 years, how the hell could you tell? The right were assholes before he was even sworn in, and just kept being assholes the entire time.

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The ultimate attempt to try to de-legitimize the first black President was and is the birther movement. If any Democratic President was in this position, Republicans would attempt the same maneuver to try and block his nominee at any cost, but I do agree it doesn't help that it is Obama (for all the reasons they don't like him anyway including his race)

But, yeah, the birther nonsense was #1. It's one for the history books.
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...from people who've never considered President Obama to be more than 3/5 of a President?

delegitimizing the will of the voters who elected him

So their whole effort is tinged with racism

GOP Senators refuse to do their job

Hopefully voters will fire a few of them

is the word I'm looking for. The Republicans just lost their majority on the Supreme Court, they know it, they can't stop it, but they may not know they are screwed yet.

They self-delude too easily and in their bubble they may think this obstruction is the path to winning the Presidency. That would be to gamble on the one issue that is THE single-issue-decider most unfavorable to them, women's rights. It may play well in Mitch's Kentucky with Kim Davis, but the Presidency is decided elsewhere.

How does this issue play into winning control of the Senate? That may be a lot more complex to analyze.

Motivated is my choice because that has been the M.O. since "LIAR" was shouted, setting a precedent, never having happened ever, to a sitting POTUS, at Barack Obama's first SOU address......

any second term president is a lame duck and should not be able to make appointments to the court. It is certain that position will be abandoned if there is another republican president.

They insist on having the playing field tilted their way at all times.

And the other party keeps letting them get away with it.

(Sorry, read too fast -- I see you've already made that point)

Keep to the same statement or lie
Repeat as naseum
Until it becomes the truth