McConnell, meanwhile—as the inventor of the principle—simply invented a new principle: that it was fine to fill a vacant seat in an election year if the presidency and the Senate were both controlled by the same party. In this new formulation, the question for voters in an election year is simply and only how to resolve the parties’ disagreement when the president and the Senate majority are in opposition. On anything else, the voters have no say.
It was nonsense, but so was the original rule. Yet somehow the Democrats found themselves speaking up in defense of the 2016 Mitch McConnell Rule, against the 2020 Mitch McConnell Rule—claiming that the earlier rule was implicated in “the fundamental workings of our democracy”!—even though both rules were made up strictly and exclusively to serve the interests of Mitch McConnell.
There is no rule that says a president can’t appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year. There should not be such a rule. Presidents are elected for four years, and they have the power to name new judges for the duration of their terms. That is the rule, and it is the rule that Mitch McConnell broke more than four years ago, in the course of making up his new fake rules.
What Obama is really objecting to, and what he should have objected to directly and strenuously at the time, is that McConnell stole the final year of Obama’s presidency. The voters chose in 2012 to give Obama the authority and duties of the president until January 2017. Antonin Scalia died in February 2016.
Who ever writes the principles can re-write the principles. In ancient times this was harder to do, as they were engraved in stone. Now principles are written in software, and can be edited, deleted or replace by using a keyboard. In fact, by voice dictation too. Both do.
Ok think what you will...bottom line is he got the seat!! Can’t be undone!!!
Democrats and their media claim that for McConnell 'principles' mean serving their agenda. it is the leftist self righteous claim that 'we own truth, decency and integrity, and they are liars, cheaters and evil'? This claim is why all socialist countries were/are dictatorships.
Dig it.
The arrogance of MoscowMitchTraitor drooling to set back womens rights by a 100 years.
This you?
He stole it because he’s racist...
He’s a hypocrite and a horrible human, too.
Several things can be wrong at the same time.
The problem is both.
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