Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
I never said the GOP doesn't filibuster. It does, and even holds the record for the longest filibuster. But it has always made a policy of not filibustering Supreme Court nominees, and I see no reason to sit around, working everyone into a froth speculating over them suddenly growing a pair and becoming confrontational over something they've never been confrontational over before.
In fact, wasn't it true that when the Dems tried it for the first time against President Bush, that doing so was the first time either party had attempted to block a Supreme Court nominee with a filibuster?
And the point you're trying to make by mentioning that the Democrats only recently started this shoddy behavior would be . . . what? You want me to give them brownie points because they USED to be good boys?
My point still stands. Being outraged by something you assume someone is going to do sometime in the future, the planning of which you don't even have evidence for, is moronic.
I must say Cecilie, that I disagree with you regarding the GOP not attempting it this time around and your reasons, but that doesn't mean that I am right in my beliefs that they will do so. Truthfully, I expect them to squawk about the whole thing as I expected the Dems to do then.
You've already said you disagree with me, and I've already said you don't have a single shred of evidence for doing so, and for some odd reason, you seem to think that telling me AGAIN that you disagree will take the place of explaining any basis for doing so.
Obstructionists was a hard word to use against the Dems when they tried it.
Yeah, but it was accurate. The truth doesn't have to be nice. It just has to be true.
I wouldn't even be surprised if someone went back to my postings from that time and found one or two times that I used it. But, I think having been on these sites, I've grown up a little bit since then so I would not expect to do it again nor to bitch and moan that the President is exercising his right to nominate whomever he chooses.
Don't care what you said before. Not relevant. We're just discussing current outrage at vague, unsubstantiated assumptions as to what the GOP might do sometime in the future. Which is still stupid.
As for the GOP growing a pair, I don't think we have that to look forward to anytime in the near future.
Immie
Don't recall suggesting they would. I believe I was the one pointing out that they wouldn't, which is a really good reason to believe all this outrage is froth over nothing.