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Even worse, that demented bitch idiotically thinks something which has never happened before in the entire history of this nation -- is a rule.You are beyond retarded. Apparently, I gave you more credit than you deserved. The Senate's job is to advise and consent. While they don't have to consent to whomever the president nominates, they do have to advise and consent -- which can't be done if they shut the confirmation process down.It means the Senate will consider the president's nominees. They may or may not approve of them, but they have to consider them. Just how fucking retarded are you that you don't even know that?So what is it you think "advice and consent" means?
No, it doesn't. It means the President has to get their consent. It doesn't mean they have to give it. Doesn't even mean they have to think about giving it.
I guess I'm so "retarded" that I know where to find the complete text of the Senate Rules and Procedures.
Sorry, but no. They ARE advising the President right now. They are advising him that his nominees are not going to be referred to committee, much less approved.
And anyone who can read English - which manifestly does not include you - can see that the Constitution is not putting the onus on the Senate to do anything. It is putting the onus on the President to do something, ie. get the Senate's consent.
Your argument is akin to saying, "Because a child has to get his mother's consent to go outside and play, it is therefore his mother's job to consider his request to do so." Any parent with two functioning brain cells knows that the child's requirement to get permission does not preclude the parent from issuing a pre-emptive "NO".
Okay....so the new normal is to just not confirm any Justice from an opposing President's nominees?
The ONLY way to get a nominee confirmed is to control both the White House and 60 members of the Senate?
Is this how our country has operated the last 200+ years?
You're saying this is legal and how things should be handled...after all from a partisan stand point both political parties would gain the most from this.