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riversedge

(69,707 posts)
Thu Apr 6, 2017, 01:08 PM Apr 2017

Senate GOP gambled and won that battle, but Democracy lost





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Merrick Garland should be a member of the Supreme Court today. Senate GOP gambled and won that battle, but Democracy lost. #NuclearOption
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Senate GOP gambled and won that battle, but Democracy lost (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2017 OP
The GOP support for the apartheid regime is clear now. Dawson Leery Apr 2017 #1
Keep in mind that Democrats were gambling too. FBaggins Apr 2017 #2
The gop wasn't gambling with anything. By the time Garland was nominated, the fix for shraby Apr 2017 #3

FBaggins

(26,693 posts)
2. Keep in mind that Democrats were gambling too.
Thu Apr 6, 2017, 01:16 PM
Apr 2017

Obama only picked Garland (widely regarded as a moderate) because he knew that Republicans were going to block anyone he put forward... so this would make them look bad during the election.

Note all the articles posted here in Sept/Oct questioning whether Republicans would race to confirm him in a lame-duck session after they lost the White House and the Senate... because we all knew that Clinton would not be re-appointing Garland. He wasn't progressive enough.

They were taking a bigger risk... but we were gambling too.

shraby

(21,946 posts)
3. The gop wasn't gambling with anything. By the time Garland was nominated, the fix for
Thu Apr 6, 2017, 01:20 PM
Apr 2017

the donald was in and they knew they would be picking the next supreme.
If many of the gop didn't know, I'd bet my bottom dollar that McConnell did.

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