Why are you guessing?
I have talked about both sides, but you might have missed that.
I have said this should not be about ideology before and in several other threads.
Was each one of those nominations in such a contention also or were they compromising and working together and not at each others throats like it is right now?
Guessing what? I provided a list of Justices that died in an election year.
Keep going, you are making it clear that this isn't about an up/down vote on whom the President nominates, it's about who is the President.
The Dem's will ride this into the dirt during the election cycle where 24 Republican Senators are up for reelection vs. only 10 Democrat Senators and with us having only a 4 vote majority in the Senate.
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The Koch Brother have said publicly they will be spending almost a billion dollars this year to fight to get their agenda, which includes going to war with those in the GOP who might even consider a hearing.
The Koch Freedom Works dude said it plainly: It's all about Obama.
Outside Groups Warn GOP: Don’t Even Think About Holding A SCOTUS Hearing
“The strategy that makes the most sense is to say that there should not be any consideration of this nominee,” Curt Levey, executive director of the FreedomWorks Foundation, said in an interview with TPM. "It would be irrelevant to have a hearing because it’s the situation: the fact that it’s an election year, the fact that his policies are before the court, the fact that the court is so finely balanced at the moment.”
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“It’s not about any one particular nominee,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the conservative legal organization Judicial Crisis Network, told TPM. “We know exactly the kind of person [Obama] is going to appoint. Getting into those details is just a silly distraction.”
For both sides of the political divide, the stakes could not be higher.
“We’ve known this was coming for while. We set aside resources for this fight because everyone knows the next president is likely to have maybe three nominations to make,” Severino said. She wouldn’t go into details about her group’s next moves when it comes to halting the Obama nominee, but said “we’re totally prepared for it,” including financing the effort.
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Levey also threatened to primary senators who don't toe the line.
“In some cases where there are potential primary opponents, we might consider supporting a primary opponent if the senator did not do the right thing,” Levey said.
As Rory Cooper, a GOP strategist,
wrote on Medium,
part of the strategy of denying the Obama administration even a hearing is to prevent the media from focusing on the person instead of the process, and in effect, starving the story of oxygen.
“It’s the most honest,” Levey said. ”The very fact that people on our side feel very strongly that there shouldn’t be a hearing before we know the nominee is because it’s not really about the nominee. ... Frankly, the real objection here is to Obama.”
