Cat Out Of Bag: "It’s not really about the nominee...Frankly, the real objection here is to Obama.”

[kpete]

“It’s not about any one particular nominee,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the conservative legal organization Judicial Crisis Network, told TPM. “We know exactly the kind of person (Obama) is going to appoint. Getting into those details is just a silly distraction.”

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“We’ve known this was coming for while. We set aside resources for this fight because everyone knows the next president is likely to have maybe three nominations to make,” Severino said. She wouldn’t go into details about her group’s next moves when it comes to halting the Obama nominee, but said “we’re totally prepared for it,” including financing the effort.

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Levey said. ”The very fact that people on our side feel very strongly that there shouldn’t be a hearing before we know the nominee is because it’s not really about the nominee. ... Frankly, the real objection here is to Obama.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/outside-groups-scotus-nom-fight?utm_content=bufferbaaa1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

[sharp_stick]

1. Severino was a clerk for Clarence Thomas

I don't think anything she said is the least bit surprising. A more ideological twit there has never been.

It's kind of telling that when Cheney and his minions were running the show, this dolt called her little money making gambit the Judicial Confirmation Network because the goal was to get shrubbos nominees through as quickly as possible.

I hope Obama and the Democrats give these people ulcers by playing with them for the next several months.

[hollowdweller]

2. They make a big deal about it being the next president

Does that mean they will immediately give the next president a pass on whomever??

If so how about if Clinton wins and she nominates Obama?? Gonna pass that one right thru?

[el_bryanto]

3. Yes I read that article as well - it's fascinating how differently the right

looks at Obama vs the way we look at him. For some reason, and racism probably figures in, they see him as such a radical threat to our country that we live in extraordinary circumstances.

Bryant

[Matrosov]

4. They don't realize they're about to shoot themselves in the foot.

Of course Republicans want to replace Scalia with another far-right nut, and they'll justify their attempt to stall President Obama's nomination by claiming that he's going to replace Scalia with yet another far-left extremists. Because apparently Justices Sotomayor and Kagan are Marxist-loving, underarm-hair-braiding commie hippies...

What they don't realize is this is their best chance to have a new SCJ who doesn't necessarily lean far to the left. They have the Senate majority and a Democrat is President, and there's an opportunity here to compromise and appoint someone whose politics are more down the center line.

Republicans are gambling on the hope that they'll retain the Senate majority AND get a Republican President in November. However, it could very well go the other way and we'll end up with a Democratic Senate majority and a Democratic President, and then there really would be a chance to nominate and appoint a SCJ who is rather progressive.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. Well, she's at least being honest - not that it will help the GOP, though.

Good thing minorities are on President Obama's side and he should SHAME Congress repeatedly until they approve his nominee to replace Scalia.