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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > The Assassination of Antonin Scalia by the Coward Barack Obama
 
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Lyapunov Unstable
Nov 20, 2011

Arkane posted:

In the video, Biden says that the Senate committee should not even consider anyone nominated until after the election is over.

which is practically the same as the current meme from the GOP side that Obama shouldn't bother nominating anyone

and weasel, I didn't argue it was right. I was arguing against partisans treating two similar situations completely differently depending on who was in power. whether Its Biden in 92 or, to a lesser extent, Reid/Obama in 07/08, both parties are obnoxiously partisan, and seemingly at their worst when it comes to judicial nominations.
You don't see any difference between the 1992 situation and today? Like, not even the fact that it's coming from the majority leader today, as opposed to just some guy?

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Lyapunov Unstable
Nov 20, 2011
 Yes we all remember 1992, when the majority Senate Democrats, having just recently imposed multiple government shutdowns and under primary pressure from a splinter far-left party, had Senate Majority Leader Joe Biden announce a refusal to vote for new judicial appointees nearly a full year before the end of Bush's term.

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Lyapunov Unstable
Nov 20, 2011
 A disgusting level of partisanship of both parties at equal magnitudes. Certainly contemporary Republicans have done nothing that Democrats haven't done countless times before.

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Lyapunov Unstable
Nov 20, 2011

euphronius posted:

Do you have a source for this claim.
Clearly blocking all votes on judicial appointments for a full quarter of a presidential term is something that Senate Democrats have at least thought about while taking a dump at least once. A disgusting level of partisanship by both parties.

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Lyapunov Unstable
Nov 20, 2011
 I wasn't even trying to troll and thought the sarcasm was obvious, but welp here we are.

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