GOP Dares Call Gorsuch Filibuster Unprecedented—While Ignoring Their Blockade Of Garland

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

 

[PredFan]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

Welcome to politics newbie!

Wait until the GOP uses the nuclear option, then the left will be screaming "This is unprecedented!!!"

 

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

Welcome to politics newbie!

Wait until the GOP uses the nuclear option, then the left will be screaming "This is unprecedented!!!"

It is, skumbucket

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote

That's because most Republicans are engaged in preventing the Democrats from completely wrecking the country.

 

[blackhawk]

And the Democrats who are now threatening a filibuster have forgotten they were the ones demanding the straight up or down vote for Garland. Welcome to the wonderful world of politics.

 

[dturner1157]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

So you are saying that "he did it first" is an appropriate way to conduct government.
Yes, there are some who behaved badly in the past. So we should keep this childishness going?

It's a different time, with a different President. Are you not fed up with our leaders behaving as if they were in Junior High school? I'd personally prefer to see them behave like the States people that we elected them to be. To conduct themselves with dignity, respect, and honor. Would you agree?

 

[brummelben]

And the Democrats who are now threatening a filibuster have forgotten they were the ones demanding the straight up or down vote for Garland. Welcome to the wonderful world of politics.

That is exactly why this nomination will be filibustered- Garland!

 

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

So you are saying that "he did it first" is an appropriate way to conduct government.
Yes, there are some who behaved badly in the past. So we should keep this childishness going?

It's a different time, with a different President. Are you not fed up with our leaders behaving as if they were in Junior High school? I'd personally prefer to see them behave like the States people that we elected them to be. To conduct themselves with dignity, respect, and honor. Would you agree?

Why didn't you vote then for a "leader" as opposed to this lying piece of garbage?

 

[Mac1958]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

Welcome to politics newbie!

Yep. Both parties will do whatever it takes, and then scream when the other party does the same thing.
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[Auld Phart]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

You must have a different definition of filibuster than I do

 

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

You must have a different definition of filibuster than I do

maybe you need to learn what cloture is, instead of spewing 24/7 on a message board

 

[dturner1157]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

So you are saying that "he did it first" is an appropriate way to conduct government.
Yes, there are some who behaved badly in the past. So we should keep this childishness going?

It's a different time, with a different President. Are you not fed up with our leaders behaving as if they were in Junior High school? I'd personally prefer to see them behave like the States people that we elected them to be. To conduct themselves with dignity, respect, and honor. Would you agree?

Why didn't you vote then for a "leader" as opposed to this lying piece of garbage?

I'll take this response to mean that you prefer to continue the childishness

 

[Auld Phart]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

You must have a different definition of filibuster than I do

maybe you need to learn what cloture is, instead of spewing 24/7 on a message board

Maybe you should?

"the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote"

What debate?

How can you have a filibuster to stop something that wasn't being discussed?

 

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

You must have a different definition of filibuster than I do

maybe you need to learn what cloture is, instead of spewing 24/7 on a message board

Maybe you should?

"the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote"

What debate?

How can you have a filibuster to stop something that wasn't being discussed?

Has debate begun?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

GOP quotes Reid to justify Supreme Court fight

In an op-ed to appear in Friday's Washington Post, the two Republicans noted that Reid himself pointed out in a floor speech that the Senate didn't have to consider any of Bush's nominees.

"The duties of the United States Senate are set forth in the Constitution of the United States," Reid said at the time. "Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote. It says appointments shall be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. That's very different than saying every nominee receives a vote."

Liberals do it, then when the Republicans do it back at the liberals, the libs go bat shit crazy.. Harry Reid did the nuclear option, now the Republicans will use it also, and again watch how bat shit crazy the liberals act again. Just cant get more stupid than a liberal.

 

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

GOP quotes Reid to justify Supreme Court fight

In an op-ed to appear in Friday's Washington Post, the two Republicans noted that Reid himself pointed out in a floor speech that the Senate didn't have to consider any of Bush's nominees.

"The duties of the United States Senate are set forth in the Constitution of the United States," Reid said at the time. "Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote. It says appointments shall be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. That's very different than saying every nominee receives a vote."

Liberals do it, then when the Republicans do it back at the liberals, the libs go bat shit crazy.. Harry Reid did the nuclear option, now the Republicans will use it also, and again watch how bat shit crazy the liberals act again. Just cant get more stupid than a liberal.

It has never been used on a SC justice in our history. Now if Congress would have confirmed Obama's choices for judgeships along with a bunch of other legislation then Harry would not have need to do anything. Just remember where this began- 2009

 

[Cellblock2429]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

/---- The GOP invoked the Crazy Joe Biden Rule on Obozo's nominee.

 

[brummelben]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

/---- The GOP invoked the Crazy Joe Biden Rule on Obozo's nominee. View attachment 119331

There never was a rule, idiot!

 

[easyt65]

Obama did not meet with Republicans for over a year after he was elected. he by-passed Congress constantly, using EOs to get his way. The Democrats rammed the nearly $1 TRILLION FAILED Stimulus bill - containing over 7,000 pieces of DNC-ONLY pork through which resulted in a cost of a reported $774,000 per job claimed to have been created / saved, and rammed a MINORITY-SUPPORTED Socialist Agenda/Obama Legacy-driven health care bill down the throats of the majority of Americans who did NOT want it.

Pardon me if I do NOT weep for the assholes who now want to whine about the same thing happening to them, ESPECIALLY when the latest news / polls are showing the majority of the country wants Gorsuch and only 39 Democrats actually want to filibuster him anyway. Sounds like the Democratic Party leadership who have declared their sole purpose in life for the next 4 years is to be Obstructionists are just being royal pricks.

 

[Auld Phart]

A mass amnesia has fallen upon Republican senators.

They seem to have forgotten about that time they refused to give President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court an up-or-down vote – or even a hearing – last year. Now they are claiming that Democrats are the norm-breakers for threatening to filibuster President Trump’s own Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans are in a full-scale pressure campaign to convince 41 Democrats not to vote against invoking “cloture” on the debate over Gorsuch, which would prevent him from moving to a floor vote, where he would need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

You must have a different definition of filibuster than I do

maybe you need to learn what cloture is, instead of spewing 24/7 on a message board

Maybe you should?

"the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote"

What debate?

How can you have a filibuster to stop something that wasn't being discussed?

Has debate begun?

Debate never began on Garland.