Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

when he loses the Senate

despicable piece of neckless shit.

what a DICK!

as little boots put it, "we'll all be dead then"


I just hope American voters wake the hell up and vote these assholes out of the majority. If anyone can't see what the hell is going on they're blind, simple as that.

We need at least a 61 majority of Democratic party members in our Senate going forward.

... but Senator McConnell takes pride in a job not done.

It says something about him, and that something is not good.

He is a piece of dog shit.

and suppose to work on behalf of the USA's people. The GOP do not do that but instead only works for the Republican party. They must be voted out as soon as possible.

They, are a bunch of free loaders, republican hogs at the trough.

Trump meeting with these a$$holes and shouting, "You're fired!"

Oh, that's worth SO much to see!!!

Both are racist pigs.

Silent but deadly.. Peee Euwww

one has already done damage - the other has the potential to do so.

Let's not get blinded by the timing - get rid of them both!

Talk about justice!

As it happens, Obama himself has weighed in on the possibility before, making clear he's not that interested in the job. Here's what he told the New Yorker in 2014:

“When I got out of law school, I chose not to clerk,” he said. “Partly because I was an older student, but partly because I don’t think I have the temperament to sit in a chamber and write opinions.” But he sounded tempted by the idea.

“I love the law, intellectually,” Obama went on. “I love nutting out these problems, wrestling with these arguments. I love teaching. I miss the classroom and engaging with students. But I think being a Justice is a little bit too monastic for me. Particularly after having spent six years and what will be eight years in this bubble, I think I need to get outside a little bit more.”

There's a precedent of a president becoming a Supreme Court justice after his term in the White House. William Howard Taft, who served as president from 1909 to 1913, joined the Supreme Court eight years later, nominated by Warren Harding, and served from 1921 to 1930.

WaPo

What if she appointed Michelle Obama to the Supreme Court???

I am quite sure neither Michelle or Barack would want it, but it is fun to fantasize about it.

If only Hillary could appoint Bill to the Court.. Heads would explode... Teee hee...

appoint somebody more liberal.

If the Senate doesn't move on the Garland nom before January, can President Clinton nominate someone else, or does Garland get to stay nominated?

Assuming Hillary wins, and especially if we also win the senate, I can't imagine republicans thinking they'd ever get a better deal than garland.

So I think he's easily headed for confirmation in December.

We waited this long, sooooooo....

Yeah we're gonna wait another few weeks and see what Madame President wants us to do.

=)

Realistically, it would be really horrible politics for Obama to pull him nomination or for senate dems to filibuster it.

Th partisan in me wishes they would, but future potential nominees might not trust us in the process.

What was that quote?
Something about democrats insisting on using the correct fork, when we sit down to dinner with barbarian vandals?

Anyone that I would want nominated would appreciate the willingness to use the other sides tactics against them...

But yeah, yours is likely the better approach.

thing is, when you nominate someone, they have to be willing to go through a process that can be easy and dignified, or it can be demeaning and political. true, many people would jump at the chance whatever the process, but in fact there are people who say no, simply because they don't want to be used as political pawns in front of the nation.

it's important for that reason for a president to stand by the nominee, defend the nominee from smear attempted, and not be seen as willing to drop the nominee for arbitrary reasons or a minor pushback from the other side.

dropping merrick after the election because hillary won and we can get someone more liberal in is rather like ending a perfectly happy marriage just because you have the opportunity to then marry someone you consider better.

What a dumbfuck.

Thanks McConnell.

In McConnell's mind, what a majority of voting Kentuckians marked on their ballot for the U.S. Senate outweighs the will of the people as expressed in the general election.

Every time a Republican publicly invokes "the will of the people," he or she should get pasted with an overripe tomato.

This is just a warmup

McConnell has done permanent damage to governance, this is as bad
as repairing our good will around the world after GWB

and so many of these dimwads have no idea of what BHO has had to do in order to raise our standing in the world - just to see the world trembling thinking about - well, you know who!

when being sworn into office to work for the American people means NOTHING to them. But they take a vow to obstruct everything to make the president fail and think that's law and they are doing their elected job. Traitor to the people at least.

Reelection. Fucker'll be in his 80s.

What goes around comes around! And they have to be proud they nominated Trump!

<Article Two of the United States Constitution requires the President of the United States to
nominate Supreme Court Justices and, with Senate confirmation, requires Justices to be
appointed.>

As I recall, they swore to uphold the US Constitution when they took office as US Senators. There is no precedent for this violation. Why are we letting them get away with it?

"They" blocked a very qualified person for surgeon general for 18 months,
right now "they" are blocking funds to fight the zika virus, and "they" have
blocked any vote on gun control too. (But we did get 9 hearings on Benghazi
and Hillary's emails.)

Remember on Jan. 21, 2009 "they" got together and promised to block everything
that President Obama would try to do in the hopes that it would help crash the
economy so the people would suffer and take it out on the President.*

If we really had an honest media many of these repugs would be out of a job because they
are so un-American.

* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/6/8/1098434/-Eric-Cantor-Paul-Ryan-Kevin-McCarthy-Plot-To-Sabotage-US-Economy-with-Frank-Luntz

The Senate is not constitutionally obligated to act on a president's nomination, but the norms dictate that they should hold hearings and confirm or reject the nominee.

No matter how much you pay me, I will not do my job!

Maybe vaguely for a short while, and not in a good way. And he's proud?

the first Black Lesbian on the Court (just thinking of people that would drive him nuts)

who think they're going to impress American voters by not doing their jobs.

the country is on the wrong track? Hopefully they will the reasons why.

Really?
This is a group of a$$holes that have nominated Drump to be our leader!
And you expect them to understand something so obvious?
I'll be kind:

They will not.

At least. Not to mention that 2018 is a favorable map for Republicans, if we don't take the Senate now, we may not have a good opportunity for a few cycles.

At this point, getting the Senate is almost as important as getting the WH.

cooperate with him to improve Americans' lives, because he needed Americans to suffer enough to make Obama a one-term president.

Then you read stuff like this and remember the reason is the people Clint Eastwood and people like him elected to congress.

...just outed himself refusing to perform his duty under the Constitution?

I wonder if McConnell will feel so 'proud' when his refusal to consider Judge Garland results in Barrack Hussein Obama being appointed to the Supreme Court.

We want a jurist who meets two criteria: excellence in appellate work, and the ability to just piss the Republicans the fuck off. And for our money, no one is better at both than Stephen Reinhardt. This fucking guy is so far to the left he makes Bernie Sanders look like Barry Goldwater. Unfortunately he'd only be on the bench for a couple of years, but that's cool because by the time he, RBG, Kennedy and Alito are ready to be replaced, Hillary will have found four solid liberals to replace them with.

To continually kick this smug bastard in the nuts until i was overcome with fatigue

I'll send vitamins and gatorade to you both!

withdraw the Garland nomination. Fuck Mitch the Turtle, Hillary should nominate more liberal people. The day after the election Mitch will be calling for a vote on Garland if Hillary and the Dems win.

You know he and the other Republicans in Congress are dying to be able to call the President that out loud in public.

I hope Obama pulls his nomination once it becomes clear Hillary has won in November. The GOP had the chance to discuss and approve or vote down Garland when they had the chance, but chose to stick to their plan of refusing to do ANY work associated with anything Obama proposes.

Hoping the Dems win the senate and Hillary should appoint her own judge every bit as liberal as Scalia was conservative. Serves them right for their stubborn obstructionist racist hatred of Obama.

As you said, they had their chance. If Hillary wins, I'd like to see her nominate someone younger and, more importantly, liberal.

... has the grace to pull himself out of nomination before the election.

Before the Repubs realize what might happen, so rush to consent to what is probably a lesser evil (in their minds).

Nasty, vile, disgusting, un-American, anti-American, filthy piece of something that no self-respecting animal would excrete. He is in desperate need of replacing.

And my "senator" Cory Gardner is molding himself in McConnell's image. Oh goody.



,

at this point I can't see any other reason.

MM isn't saying that he'd block the choice of a candidate he didn't feel was appropriate-- he's saying that because the President wants a particular candidate, that automatically disqualifies him/her. What a hateful piece of garbage.

Yep, ol' mitch is definitely looking out for our country.

NOT the fucking president and you're NOT going to last much longer. This politician has out lived his political shelf life.

that turtle man would/will try to hold up this nomination for another 4/ 8 years.

Unless the senate and house are taken, we can expect another 4 years of gridlock. The party of NO is already gearing up for more obstruction.

This should be used as the perfect example of why we are fed up. The follow up question needs to be asked.

Actually it's worse than that, getting paid for fucking up the country and deliberately refusing to do his job. Repugs are nothing more or less than traitors, the degree varies but all of them are OK with fucking up our country to advance their own political views. Hope HRC appoints a barn burner liberal and Dems have a no filibuster for nominees rule. It would be the repugs just deserts. Only issue is Dems in congress tend to be spineless, so I'd be surprised if they actually followed through with the much needed No Filibuster rule.

What a total douchebag!

some "Orange Dick-wad" would have shouted:

"YOU'RE FIRED!"

If only it were so..........

"You will not fill this seat, jackass!!!!"

"Two words, Bitchy Mitchy: Ping May."

https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/

Believe me, that double chin of his would start sweating like a ho' in church.

paperwork for a Code of Conduct to stay employed for starters.

And this hypocrite some how gets a pass on that little framework.

Because the Constitution is basically a set of rules and the Code of Conduct.

But I digress, this hypocrite, was at a restaurant conspiring against a newly elected president and this hypocrite signed a letter to a foreign government to undermine the authority of the president for negotiations with another country -------



Honk----------------for a political revolution

they have no conduct of ethos and they have no honor to abide by the rules, I can think of about five words to describe him and Ryan, but I like the words "lack of scruples"




Honk---------------for a political revolution

Get in the way, not unlike the schoolyard bully. Wants your lunch money and anything else he fancies. Can't do anything, can't be productive. Just good at pushing others around, making sure they can't get anything done. Even builds a following of weak-minded little shits envious of his ability to instill fear.

Someone finally stands up and punches him in the eye and he runs off crying to mommy that the mean kids beat him up.

Fuck you, Mitch.

No federal funding for their state.
No extra for disaster recovery, after the people are rescued.
No funding for disease outbreaks.
When they say no,
treat them like the toddlers they are, and they will grow up very quickly.

the vacancy...And we know how much Republicans love the Clintons.

Very confident that the Donald will win and the republicans will control congress. What does he know that we don't? Talk about a rigged election. Because if that is not the case, what does he think that Hillary is going to appoint anti-choice and anti-gay judges? That is a mighty gamble.