Supreme Court confirmation hearings

[vraiblonde]

It seems to me that the Dems have no real problems sailing their picks through, but they always want to make a circus out of it when it's a Republican nomination. I don't recall a huge flap over an of the Clinton or Obama justices, but we all remember the Clarence Thomas attacks and Alito's wife crying because the Dems on the committee were raking her husband over the coals. Robert Bork comes to mind as well, and that fat drunk Ted Kennedy's nasty diatribe.

I mean, yes, the confirmation is typically a partisan affair but the Dems seem to turn it into a blood sport.

Wouldn't it be nice if our Senators were as loyal to our country as they are to their Party?

 

[Gilligan]

Wouldn't it be nice if our Senators were as loyal to our country as they are to their Party?

I'm not sure there ever was a time when that was true....

 

[Hessian]

Drudge headline: Pillow over his face.
and no autopsy ordered.

Will this create a firestorm?
Conspiracy theorists are already fired up.

Now we have this curiosity over who will be the nominee...OR will it be a recess appointment! UGH!
No doubt, we are headed into an ugly time period friends.

(4-6 weeks before the Hillary indictments land in the justice department. Lynch,...watcha goin do?)

 

[SamSpade]

Drudge headline: Pillow over his face.
and no autopsy ordered.

Will this create a firestorm?
Conspiracy theorists are already fired up.

They always will be. My dad was an eyewitness to the plane hitting the Pentagon, and people STILL think it was a missile - with the plane itself mysteriously vanishing and then somehow all of its passengers killed. Stupid - if you're going to kill them ANYWAY, why not just use the PLANE?

One thing I've read is that he was dead with the door locked from the inside. Hard to kill someone that way, unless it's a clever TV show.

 

[DipStick]

It seems to me that the Dems have no real problems sailing their picks through, but they always want to make a circus out of it when it's a Republican nomination. I don't recall a huge flap over an of the Clinton or Obama justices, but we all remember the Clarence Thomas attacks and Alito's wife crying because the Dems on the committee were raking her husband over the coals. Robert Bork comes to mind as well, and that fat drunk Ted Kennedy's nasty diatribe.

I mean, yes, the confirmation is typically a partisan affair but the Dems seem to turn it into a blood sport.

Wouldn't it be nice if our Senators were as loyal to our country as they are to their Party?

There wasn't a huge flap over Sonia Sotomayor? LOL.

If Republicans are such better Americans, they'll have no problem going in and confirming whoever President Obama nominates to replace Scalia?

 

[vraiblonde]

There wasn't a huge flap over Sonia Sotomayor? LOL.

If Republicans are such better Americans, they'll have no problem going in and confirming whoever President Obama nominates to replace Scalia?

I don't really think they are better "Americans". I was more thinking that they're a bunch of candy ass cowards who are more willing to let the Radical in Chief run roughshod over our Constitution.

I don't remember a "huge flap" over Sotomayor. She was clearly an affirmative action pick. She herself said that she came to the Court not as an American, but as a Latina woman. Then she had the nerve to call Republican committee members racist when they questioned this. But I don't recall anything out of the ordinary as far as Republicans trying to block her confirmation.

 

[TheLibertonian]

There wasn't a huge flap over Sonia Sotomayor? LOL.

If Republicans are such better Americans, they'll have no problem going in and confirming whoever President Obama nominates to replace Scalia?

Both parties turn it into a witch hunt.

And of course, to the ideological pure of both parties, the other side is the one who does it worse. No one cares about the qualifications of nominations, they care about their ideological purity towards republicanism or democratism. I'm done calling it liberalism and conservatism because neither party represents those words.

 

[DipStick]

They always will be. My dad was an eyewitness to the plane hitting the Pentagon, and people STILL think it was a missile - with the plane itself mysteriously vanishing and then somehow all of its passengers killed. Stupid - if you're going to kill them ANYWAY, why not just use the PLANE?

One thing I've read is that he was dead with the door locked from the inside. Hard to kill someone that way, unless it's a clever TV show.

My extreme conservative friends still post links every day "proving" that the Sandy Hook massacre and the WDBJ shooting were hoaxes done by the government so Obama could steal our guns.

My favorite one was about the WDBJ shooting: "You could tell it wasn't real because Alison Parker should have seen him there with a gun". These people have obviously never done an interview before. And probably don't have jobs because they were looking at their smartphones instead of at their potential employers during a job interview.

 

[SamSpade]

There wasn't a huge flap over Sonia Sotomayor? LOL.

Are you delusional? There's always going to be harsh disagreement, but geez, the Thomas hearings were like the OJ trial. And you would have thought Bork was Hitler returned from the grave. There's not the slightest bit of comparison.

Actually what REALLY astounds me is that the Democrats always behave as though they've always been gracious about appointments to the bench. Every time we elect a Democrat to the White House, Democrats act as though they'd been saints with regard to its previous occupant.

 

[DipStick]

I don't really think they are better "Americans". I was more thinking that they're a bunch of candy ass cowards who are more willing to let the Radical in Chief run roughshod over our Constitution.

Remember that question you asked every day Shrub was president?

 

[SamSpade]

My extreme conservative friends still post links every day "proving" that the Sandy Hook massacre and the WDBJ shooting were hoaxes done by the government so Obama could steal our guns.

My favorite one was about the WDBJ shooting: "You could tell it wasn't real because Alison Parker should have seen him there with a gun". These people have obviously never done an interview before. And probably don't have jobs because they were looking at their smartphones instead of at their potential employers during a job interview.

My extreme liberal friends STILL post that 9/11 was orchestrated by Bush. No political side has a lock on crazy.

 

[SamSpade]

Remember that question you asked every day Shrub was president?

???????

 

[vraiblonde]

Remember that question you asked every day Shrub was president?

No. What was it?

 

[TheLibertonian]

Are you delusional? There's always going to be harsh disagreement, but geez, the Thomas hearings were like the OJ trial. And you would have thought Bork was Hitler returned from the grave. There's not the slightest bit of comparison.

Actually what REALLY astounds me is that the Democrats always behave as though they've always been gracious about appointments to the bench. Every time we elect a Democrat to the White House, Democrats act as though they'd been saints with regard to its previous occupant.

that's the nature of modern day politics. Your side are angels, the other side is the devil hisself. You don't apologize for anything, because obviously nothing has occurred to cause any sort of apology, and even it if has, you aren't to blame.

The real difference is that the democrats will try to edit their own history, whereas the republicans simply double down on stubborn refusal to admit they might be in error on something.

 

[DipStick]

No. What was it?

"What rights have you lost under Bush?"

 

[vraiblonde]

"What rights have you lost under Bush?"

I do not recall asking that question every day. But what does that have to do with the topic at hand?

 

[DipStick]

It's funny, I have friends who think Russia is the greatest country in the world and has more freedoms than we have. Of course, most of them said that when Vladimir Putin came out and talked about how great Donald Trump was.

I told them that they should move their and try talking about their government the same way they talk about Obama and then get back to me about how America isn't a free country and Russia is.

We've just become that partisan in this country -- and social media has made it worse.

 

[General Lee]

Drudge headline: Pillow over his face.
and no autopsy ordered.

I don't understand how an autopsy won't be preformed. It was an unattended death and my understanding is an autopsy is required especially for unattended deaths. Hell, They preform an autopsy for people killed by gunshots, hit by cars, buses, falls, etc when its OBVIOUS what they died of.

I read an article where his doc said he had "minor" ailments. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but damn I don't see how his doctor would sign off on the death certificate on an unattended death where he had no real health issues. We aren't getting full story. Either he had health issues we don't know about or something definitely smells fishy.

 

[DipStick]

I do not recall asking that question every day. But what does that have to do with the topic at hand?

You asked it every time someone said something about Shrub violating the constitution.

So, I'll ask it about Obama. Because, according to most of my friends who post everyday on Facebook about how they have no rights, they don't have freedom of speech, they've lost their rights to own guns and they have to work like slaves to pay for everyone else's welfare.

Of course, most don't actually have jobs. And that, too, is Obama's fault.

 

[DipStick]

I don't understand how an autopsy won't be preformed. It was an unattended death and my understanding is an autopsy is required especially for unattended deaths. Hell, They preform an autopsy for people killed by gunshots, hit by cars, buses, falls, etc when its OBVIOUS what they died of.

I read an article where his doc said he had "minor" ailments. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but damn I don't see how his doctor would sign off on the death certificate on an unattended death where he had no real health issues. We aren't getting full story. Either he had health issues we don't know about or something definitely smells fishy.

Why is it so hard to believe a 79 year old man died of natural causes?