Even Republican Voters Want GOP Senators to Hold Hearings on Obama's Supreme Court Pick

[WhiteTara]

Source: MIC

If Republican officials think they're playing to the base by blocking the president's Supreme Court pick, they might want to think again.

Almost half of Republican voters disagree with GOP senators' refusal to hold hearings on President Barackbama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the high court, a new poll shows.

A Morning Consult survey released Friday found 43% of GOP voters think the Senate Judiciary Panel should hold hearings on Garland, who was nominated on Wednesday to succeed late Justice Antonin Scalia.

About a third, or 34%, opposed hearings, and 23% were on the fence.

More than half of Democratic voters polled, 56%, approved of hearings, as did 42% of independents, Morning Consult said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/even-republican-voters-want-gop-162300417.html

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[saturnsring]

1. many of them wanted ckground checks on handguns but the cons still said no

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. The thugs don't care what people want.

People are peons, suckers and marks.

What they care about is what they're bribed to care about, or in the cases of those being owned outright, they care about what their overlords TELL them to care about.

[saturnsring]

4. agreed ..nt

[patricia92243]

3. I believe as more of know about it, the numbers wanting a hearing will be even higher. n/t

[certainot]

5. give limbaugh and sons a few weeks and very few will feel like

cooperating with dems

that what it's about

[GreydeeThos]

6. The Republicans are so predictable

First they make a big show about refusing to even consider President Obama's nominee.

Then they soften their position and receive the nomination, but the Republicans again refuse hold hearings.

From this they gain a little good will from the public for just moving to where they should have been all along.

Next they will make a big show of debating weather or not to hold hearings, and gain a little more good will.

Then the nominee will go to committee, which will take time because this is an election year.

Then the nominee will go to hearings, which will take time because this is an election year.

What the Republicans are doing is running out the clock on the Obama Administration. They are making it look like they are cooperating, when they actually never intend to let Judge Merrick Garland come up for a vote before the Senate.

[blue neen]

7. They just don't get it.

The obstructionist Republican senators who are up for re-election are committing political suicide.

So be it.

[houston16revival]

8. This is such a beautiful wedge issue

to separate them from their Senate nannies

Their minds are now open

[Uhmercan Irishman]

9. Sen. Mark Kirk: Republicans should ‘man up’ and vote on SCOTUS nominee

From msnbc.com:

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk took shot at his Republican colleagues on Friday for refusing to hold a Senate hearing and vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

“Just man up and cast a vote. The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get yes or no votes,” Kirk told “The Big John Howell Show” on Chicago’s WLS-AM. “Your whole job is to either say yes or no and explain why.”

Kirk, one of the few GOP senators who said they would at least meet with Garland, urged Senate Republicans to “go through the process the Constitution has already laid out. The president has already laid out a nominee. For me, I’m open to see him, talk to him and ask for his views on the Constitution.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/sen-mark-kirk-republicans-should-man-and-vote-scotus-nominee

Ah, the smell of Republican fear!

[WhiteTara]

10. the crack is widening. nt