GOP Rips Hillary Clinton for Politicizing Hyperpolitical SCOTUS Fight

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Magazine

Hillary Clinton isn't the first to speak out against Senate Republicans' unprecedented refusal to confirm — or, in many cases, to even meet with — President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. In a speech at the University of Wisconsin on Monday, Clinton echoed the sentiments of many Democratic lawmakers when she called on Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to "step up and do his job" and hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, whom Obama nominated in March. In response, Republicans criticized her for politicizing the already-political nomination process.

In her speech, Clinton used Grassley's own words against him: "He says we should wait for a new president because, and I quote, 'The American people shouldn't be denied a voice.' "Well, as one of the more than 65 million Americans who voted to re-elect Barack Obama, I'd say my voice is being ignored."

She also linked GOP obstruction to the rise of candidates who suggest things like banning all Muslims from the United States. "The same obstructionism that we’ve seen from Republicans since the beginning of the Obama administration, the same disregard for the rule of law [has] given rise to the extremist candidacies of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz," she said. "What the Republicans have sown with their extremist tactics, they are now reaping with Donald Trump’s candidacy."

In response to Clinton's speech, GOP lawmakers criticized her for politicizing the courts. "If Hillary Clinton is criticizing you, you must be doing something right," Adam Brandon, the chief executive of a tea party advocacy group, told the New York Times, adding that, "the Senate is performing its constitutional responsibility" in blocking Obama's nomination.

Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/gop-rips-hillary-for-politicizing-scotus-fight.html#

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I thought Bernie, President Obama and other Democrats have criticized Republican obstruction, but the GOP chooses to focus its blame on Hillary Clinton.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Aim at the frontrunner...

Don't waste your ammo on Obama or Bernie.

Politics 101.

[leftofcool]

2. Consider this a feather in your cap, Hills

[Arkansas Granny]

3. It just proves that they see Hillary as the greatest threat.

[Roland99]

4. Uhhh...so, she criticizes *them* for *them* have politicized the whole thing

but it's *her* fault?

[onehandle]

5. Well, she is the nominee and our next President. nt

[lagomorph777]

6. Oh wow, I must have overslept - it's July 28th already?

I've got to get a louder alarm clock.

[LS_Editor]

11. My state hasn't voted yet. Maybe you could be a little less arrogant.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Don't suppress the vote. Even if you think that, don't say it.

Get out the vote. Let the process run its course.

A great way to not win the Senate (and maybe even the House) is to spread the meme that the Presidential election is a foregone conclusion.

The Democratic Party needs to win the Senate (for SCOTUS and the country). Don't suppress the vote.

[Pharaoh]

17. ^^this^^

[Cryptoad]

7. This is not LBN,,, needs to go to GD

[groundloop]

10. Thanks for your concern and vigilance.

[AlbertCat]

8. but the GOP chooses to focus its blame on Hillary Clinton.

Who said absolutely nothing new and merely echoed what's been said for weeks and weeks now. Why does the GOP get upset about it now? They can't wait to go after her. It'll be so easy. They've been planning it for decades.

[TomCADem]

12. We Need a New Hashtag #ThanksalotHillary

I was late for work.

#ThanksalotHillary

[liberal N proud]

9. Isn't that "SPECIAL?"

[tclambert]

14. How dare she try to politicize their partisan political actions!

It's not like anyone in the Senate is trying to politicize anything. Politics is obviously the least of their concern.

[LannyDeVaney]

15. She is really going after them for this obstruction ...

I'm glad she is speaking out.

The GOP reaction shows they know folks are listening, and they know whose voice will be heard.

And that voice would be Sec. Clinton's voice.

[GOLGO 13]

16. If they're complaing about it then it's working.

The heat is slowly rising on them & they don't like the attention she's calling on them.