Sean Spicer: Merrick Garlands Supreme Court snub is different because it was Obama's "fourth term"

[Miles Archer]

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday insisted that Democrats had a responsibility to confirm any “qualified” Supreme Court nominee even though Senate Republicans had refused to hold hearings for President Barack Obama’s nominee.

“The default is if you are generally qualified and not extreme you are confirmed,” Spicer told reporters ahead of the Tuesday night announcement of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

One reporter pointed out that Republicans had not followed that standard after Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland.

“There’s never been a situation in which you had a fourth term, someone that late in an election cycle,” Spicer opined. “That had never occurred before. And I think the Senate Republicans were very clear that we should wait and let the voters have a choice. And that’s exactly what happened.”

In fact, Obama nominated Garland in the fourth year of his second term, 10 months prior to the election.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/sean-spicer-merrick-garlands-supreme-court-snub-is-different-because-it-was-obamas-fourth-term/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sean Spicer is full of shit. End of story. n/t

[FSogol]

4. Don't you mean, "Sean Spicer is full of shit, Period"?

[world wide wally]

12. I would say its more like Sean Spicer is full of shit... Period

[unblock]

2. yes, it's easy to confuse obama with fdr....

[Johonny]

3. I thought they were against late term abortions...

[Phoenix61]

5. The voters had decided

The elected Obama and expected him to fill any empty seats in the Supreme Court.

[Dawson Leery]

7. +1,000,000

[izzybella]

8. Then they continued to make it clear by about 3,000,000.

The people made it quite clear who they wanted to fill that opening.

[gademocrat7]

6. spicer is a lying nitwit.

[dem4decades]

10. I think he'll soon be gone and replaced

with a better, maybe even bigger (if possible) liar.

[3catwoman3]

14. Doesn't Kellyanne Conway already...

...have a job in this administration?

[dem4decades]

19. Isn't she the weekend liar?

She has to store up all her venom for the big Sunday shows. I loved that she actually threw up a little in her mouth just before she had to say alternative facts. Even she knew it was revolting.

[Eleanors38]

11. Naww. That was AltFact.

[underpants]

9. Honestly we would have just settled for a third term

[berni_mccoy]

13. He's so full of shit, he doesn't realize it when he's said something blatantly incorrect

and just keeps on going as if what he said was factual... eating his own shit sandwich as he goes.

[MFM008]

15. to bad.

get used to it maggots.

[BruceWane]

16. Just make shit up..........

.....whatever's needed to suite your desired reality.

Nevermind actual history.........

"14 presidents have appointed 21 justices during presidential election years. A half-dozen presidents, classic lame ducks, filled Supreme Court seats even though their successors had been elected."

Full story at the Washington Post

Sean forgot to add his signature PERIOD to the end of his statement

[DFW]

17. "fourth term"

This third-rate Göbbels must think he can make up his "alternate history" as he goes along, and no one will notice. He was obviously wrong about a "fourth term," and probably just outright lying (I can't believe he misspoke out of ignorance) about "There's never been a situation" where a president nominated (and got confirmed) a Supreme Court Justice in his last year in office. Of course there has, and the last two presidents to successfully nominate a SCOTUS member in their last year in office were Republicans (Taft and Hoover).

[muntrv]

18. Anthony Kennedy.

Besides, we the voters didn't chose Roberts, Alito, or Thomas.

[Cha]

20. the gopricks obstruted President Obama from Day ONe, asshole.