(February 15, 2016 at 12:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: ...and it has not taken the tin-foil hat crew long to spring into action.


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/conspira...over-head/

Quote:Conspiracy kooks shift into overdrive after learning Antonin Scalia was found dead with a pillow over head

Silly assholes.

Where was Cheney?

(February 15, 2016 at 11:13 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Here is an article about potential Scalia replacements. The first is a guy named Sri Srinivasan, a D.C. circuit judge who was approved in 2013 by the Senate 97-0.

I'm no politician but if I was in President Obama's position, I would salivate at the thought of ripping the Republicans apart if they rejected a guy they already approved unanimously for a position just one level down from supreme court justice. He might not be able to stop them but he can sure as hell cost them a LOT of political capital. How are they going justify it to the American people? There is no justification. He should be able to tear them apart over their obstructionism.

The good news is that he isn't a Catholic or a Jew.  The bad news is that he's a foreigner from India.  

Some people are pushing a guy from Mexico.  It would kill the Repubs if they reject him.  But he is a foreigner.  

So now we have the Supreme Court jobs that are outsourced to foreign workers.  We have too many of those in Congress already.

(February 15, 2016 at 8:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:

(February 15, 2016 at 11:13 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Here is an article about potential Scalia replacements. The first is a guy named Sri Srinivasan, a D.C. circuit judge who was approved in 2013 by the Senate 97-0.

I'm no politician but if I was in President Obama's position, I would salivate at the thought of ripping the Republicans apart if they rejected a guy they already approved unanimously for a position just one level down from supreme court justice. He might not be able to stop them but he can sure as hell cost them a LOT of political capital. How are they going justify it to the American people? There is no justification. He should be able to tear them apart over their obstructionism.

The good news is that he isn't a Catholic or a Jew.  The bad news is that he's a foreigner from India.  

Some people are pushing a guy from Mexico.  It would kill the Repubs if they reject him.  But he is a foreigner.  

So now we have the Supreme Court jobs that are outsourced to foreign workers.  We have too many of those in Congress already.

Does it really matter that he spent the first two years of his life in India, given that the remaining 47 have been, you know, pretty outstandingly devoted to this country?

Here's a power play scenario by which Obama could force his pick through before he leaves office if a Republican wins the Whitehouse. It would require that the Democrats retake the Senate. It would be very ironic if Republican senators get ousted because of their obstructionism over Obama's pick and those ousters allow the President to pick Scalia's replacement anyway.

(February 15, 2016 at 9:20 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote:

(February 15, 2016 at 8:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The good news is that he isn't a Catholic or a Jew.  The bad news is that he's a foreigner from India.  

Some people are pushing a guy from Mexico.  It would kill the Repubs if they reject him.  But he is a foreigner.  

So now we have the Supreme Court jobs that are outsourced to foreign workers.  We have too many of those in Congress already.

Does it really matter that he spent the first two years of his life in India, given that the remaining 47 have been, you know, pretty outstandingly devoted to this country?

As I said, he gets 95 points for being something beside a Catholic or a Jew.  It might be nice to have a Hindu on the Court.  It'll really drive the righties nuts if he rules against the Christian Taliban.  But you can bet your ass that an American Christian who lived 47 years in India since he was two years old would never, ever, get on the India Supreme Court under any circumstances.   http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/judges.htm

(February 15, 2016 at 9:56 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Here's a power play scenario by which Obama could force his pick through before he leaves office if a Republican wins the Whitehouse. It would require that the Democrats retake the Senate. It would be very ironic if Republican senators get ousted because of their obstructionism over Obama's pick and those ousters allow the President to pick Scalia's replacement anyway.

If Obama was going to play hardball he would have already announced his choice.  It looks like he's going to wimp out.

There's approximately zero chance of the Democrats taking the Senate this year anyhow.

Doesn't confirmation require 60 votes?

Read the article. It addresses both points.

(February 16, 2016 at 1:11 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: There's approximately zero chance of the Democrats taking the Senate this year anyhow.

The republicunts are defending 24 seats in 2016...the dems only 10.  Add in that democrats tend to vote in presidential elections and it is not as far-fetched as the hopes of recapturing the House.  You can't gerrymander an entire state.