Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Process Discussion (confirmed 54-45)

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Screw you McConnell

and screw you McCain and Rubio and whoever goes along with the nuclear option. Sad.

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so bringing up a nominee 9 months before an election is somehow not doable, but ramming a nominee through within 2 months of his being named is something that McConnell was forced into. And zero Republicans are willing to stand up against this. Proving once again that there is no such thing as a principled Republican.

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Collins Aye
Murkowski Aye
Heller Aye
McCain Aye


well nay technically.

$%*@! them

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Democrats will be thankful that the Republicans killed the filibuster for them once they're back in the majority.

sadly, that likely won't be until at least 2020.

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Gutless cowards, every one.

Agreed. I sent an angry email to Sen Warner today calling him a hypocrite, a coward, a dissapointment, and informing him that he wouldn't get any more of my votes since he's decided to become a hack without principles and treat a good judge like garbage. Sent a similar email to Sen. Kaine, but i never voted for him so it was less preachy and indignant.

Give me a break. Republicans didn't even try to nominate a consensus candidate.

And Democrats didnt even pretend to give Gorsuch a fair hearing, which they just spent an entire year whining about. Yes i know, "iz a stolez seat. Teh rules say the Democratic Party forever owns that seat."

listen to yourself. A year whining? Gorsuch has only been named for 2 months. You're complaining that the hearing wasn't fair? How so? But denying a hearing at all to Garland WAS FAIR? You're nothing but a partisan hack who regurgitates the party line. This country is going down the tubes with our idiot leader and Republicans are fiddling while America burns.

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You reap what Harry Reid sows.

i am sure, republicans could have lived happily with leaving thousands of seats empty.

the logical result of the fever which struck the GOP post 2009.

exactly. the obstructionist Republican Congress was preventing courts from functioning properly and the reaction was to do what was needed to allow the courts to function.

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I have a feeling that this going to look hilarious when Gorsuch makes Souter look like Scalia.

what does that mean? You think Gorsuch is going to be a leftie? No way.

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Alot of lefties on twitter and Reddit seem to be really freaking out over this but im not sure why. The filibuster has been abused to point that it lost its purpose. That means its best for the health of our representative republic to get rid of it. If the healthcare bill failing is proof of anything, even partisanship fails when a proposal is bad enough, and thats the way it should be. I hope the legislative filibuster goes next.

I think it's because we have a complete wackjob in the oval office who is being led around by the nose by the extreme far right and we have republican majorities in both houses of Congress who are unwilling to oversee him. The Court is the one area that can possibly reign in his power, and now he has stolen a seat on the Supreme Court and likely will have a tremendous impact on it's future for decades. The additional impact on repressing the vote will make it even more difficult for democrats to get the majorities they need to slow the destruction of our liberties and our country.