GOP Prepares to Fight Obama Nominee, No Matter Whom He Picks
Source: abc
The Supreme Court fight is about to get personal.
Republicans prepared Monday to unleash a torrent of activity opposing President Barack Obama's nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. As the president neared an announcement, Obama's allies, too, were priming for an election-year fight.
The Republican Party launched a task force housed within the Republican National Committee to orchestrate attack ads, petitions and media outreach, party officials said. They want to bolster a strategy that Senate Republicans adopted as soon as Justice Antonin Scalia died last month: refusing to consider an Obama nominee out of hopes that the next president will be a Republican.
The Republican National Committee will contract with America Rising Squared, an outside group targeting Democrats that's run by a longtime aide to GOP Sen. John McCain. GOP chairman Reince Priebus said it would be the most comprehensive judicial response effort in the party's history.
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and of course they will blame Obama because
AxionExcel
(755 posts)Mz Pip
(27,458 posts)You can take one of the 3 Obama is considering or wait until Bernie or Hillary is President with the Senate back in control of the Democrats.
How does Supreme Court Justice Barack Obama sound?
tanyev
(42,669 posts)If they come on Nov. 9th begging him to appoint someone, I will laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)obstructionists have been all along.
ffr
(22,676 posts)What was the question?
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)This is why we need Bernie so bad, it's already become newspeak in this country.