McConnell: Americans 'Will Not Tolerate' Dems Blocking SCOTUS Nom

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By TIERNEY SNEED Published JANUARY 4, 2017, 3:20 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back at Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his vow that Democrats will fight to keep the Supreme Court vacancy open if President-elect Donald Trump selects a nominee from out of the mainstream.

At a press conference Wednesday, McConnell mocked Schumer for expanding what Republicans labeled the "Biden rule'"-- referring to a 1992 speech given by then Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) discouraging the appointment of a Supreme Court nominee close to an election -- while arguing that "the American people simply will not tolerate" Democratic efforts to obstruct Trump's eventual nominee.

Last year, McConnell led a Republican blockade against even considering Merrick Garland, President Obama's nominee to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat, securing the vacancy for Trump.

"I noticed my counterpart Sen. Schumer announced yesterday that their goal was to apparently never fill the Supreme Court vacancy. That's kind of an expansion of the Biden rule," McConnell said, before reiterating his definition of the Biden rule.

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[DRoseDARs]

1. Chutzpah!

Wow, just wow.

[Coolest Ranger]

2. Someone lied to you

You blocked our guys nominations now its our turn

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. "Do Unto Others As They Are Already Doing Unto You."

Truly it is written.

[putitinD]

4. hey McTurtle, shut your "lips."

[forgotmylogin]

5. The hypocrisy is pungent.

Doesn't it burn your skin, McConnell?

[justhanginon]

6. We will not only tolerate it, we demand it!

[C Moon]

7. What a freak!!!

[Mc Mike]

8. Do tell, you chinless goof.

[Rex]

9. What a fool.

Of course we will.

[MFM008]

10. lol

if Schumer was telling the truth he said no SCOTUS.
That would be nice.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Just when we thought he couldn't be uglier:

[center]

[adigal]

28. So many pasty white men all rich, all insured

Going to take away our health care, Social Security, Pensions.
Bastards.

[procon]

12. It's hard to keep a straight face anymore.

I've seen preschoolers come up with more inventive lies... even with the chocolate smeared all over their upturned little faces. At least McConnell could put in a little teenage effort when he lies and add a good eye roll, or a big chest heaving sigh, even a foot stomp before flouncing off, and I'd pay cash money to see him pose with pouty duck lips after hos next lie..

[Leith]

13. Americans Tolerated It When the rethugs Blocked the SCOTUS Nomination

Why should we object now?

The turtle did it. Why is he whining about being on the receiving end?

He's got his damn gall.

[RussBLib]

14. a new height of hypocrisy

But, remember now, when they go low, we go high. (gag)

[ananda]

15. No they won't "tolerate" it.

They'll embrace and love it!

[drmeow]

16. Hey McConnell

Bite me!

[malthaussen]

17. The Devil is in the details, you know.

It appears that Mr Turtle was talking about Democratic efforts to block nominees. He didn't say squat about tolerance of Republican efforts.

-- Mal

[red dog 1]

18. K&R

Go to hell, Turtle!

[The Wizard]

19. Trump's hollow victory

rooted in a crooked system does not constitute popular support. It's very difficult to govern without popular support. Miss McConnell might be looking over his shoulder in the next election cycle.

[Initech]

20. Go fuck yourself, Mitch, you fucking traitor!!!!!

I'm so sick of their bullshit, whining and crying, that I could do this:

[reflection]

21. Apparently they will, since they did.

Go take a long walk off a short pier in the Galapagos, you turtle-headed asshole.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. Real turtles (and tortoises) are gentle little creatures

And they never lie.


Awful slur on their good name to call the repuke scum rep a turtle.

[sheshe2]

22. STFU Mitchie.

[BobTheSubgenius]

23. Unf'ingbelievable...

...or not, depending on whether you have seen any of his earlier work.

[Paladin]

24. Eat shit, turtle boy.

And while you're dining, try to imagine the ugly role that is being assigned to you in this country's history, now and forever more.

[Skittles]

25. FUCK YOU, MCCONNELL

YOU SAID WAIT FOR THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE, and THEY DID - DEMOCRATS BY THREE MILLION VOTES

[thegoose]

26. Hey, Nurdle the Turtle

Contempt is too kind a word for what I feel for you and the rest of your deplorables....

Unbelievable what these pigs at the trough want to do -- and will probably get away with. And still the MSM cautiously says, "Republicans may want to," and "Trump seems to..." For Christ's sake, get off your asses and tell the fucking truth!

But alas, Megyn Kelly is going to NBC News. Tell me, have the four horsemen saddled up yet?

Jeebus.

[adigal]

27. Hahahaha!!!!! This is great!!! We are going to block everyone

Every SCOTUS nominee. And it is up to us to flood our reps' phones and faxes and in-boxes with letters demanding this.

[Morganfleeman]

31. Hate to disappoint

But ultimately the rethugs will end up changing the senate rules to allow SCOTUS nominations on simple majority votes. It's already been done away with for lower court judges and I'm sure the Democrats' "obstruction"will be used as pretense to eliminate the 60 vote threshold.

[tavernier]

30. Obama could have seated a SCOTUS.

He still has time. Elizabeth Warren is a grand choice.

[denvine]

32. FU Turtlehead hypocrite!

Americans wanted a Supreme Court appointment before the election and you didn't care. McConnell is the most vile sneeze to occupy a human body.

[Hekate]

33. I noticed that he and the men behind him almost couldn't keep straight faces....

....while the cameras were on them. I have a strong suspicion they werw all just as soon as they went behind closed doors again. They are all such disgusting hypocrites I don't know how they can live with their own stink.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. FU, you hypocritical turtle!

I never liked this smart-aleck cartoon turtle either!

[Cha]

35. STFU you hypocritical POS

[Rebl2]

36. I seem to remember

before the election McConnell said if Clinton were elected he would work to block her nominee to the Supreme Court. What a hypocrite to cry foul if Dems try to block Trumps nominee.

[BigDemVoter]

37. Turtle McFuckLips

can shove his SCOTUS nomination up his butt.

[JudyM]

38. But we did tolerate their blocking our nominee. And so it goes.

[milestogo]

40. Two sets of rules.

[JudyM]

41. Yes, the rules we've been using are ethical and pro-democratic. Their rules? Power-grabbing at any

cost.

[milestogo]

43. Because Democrats are about values and Republicans are about power at any price.

That's my diagnosis.

[0rganism]

39. let's try to understand the implications here

stop calling out "hypocrisy" and "lies!" when the answer is much simpler than that
Sen. McConnell doesn't consider those who would tolerate (let alone appreciate) such blockage to be Americans and intends to govern as such

we need to get beyond outrage and focus on decoding their dogwhistles instead

[smirkymonkey]

42. I think he hasn't a clue who "The Americans" are.

Fucking idiot.

[DFW]

44. I'd tolerate it

Did Mitchie secede Texas without telling us?

[Sunlei]

45. Republicans have to vote on Obamas SCOTUS nominee first. Vote no if you want Republicans, quit BLOCK

[hollowdweller]

46. Keep it open till the next Dem president

Now if another spot opens, let them fill it. Because that is their right and the way it's always been done.

But was dems right to staff Scalia seat and we should leave that one open.