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In reply to the discussion: Please stop calling Dems "weak" because we don't have many options for stopping Supreme Court nomine [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Hindsight is pretty easy, and in hindsight Merrick Garland should have been a recess appointee.
I truly love that Barack Obama was my president. I do. His only flaw was trusting republicans. To the very end, he kept thinking that they would deal fairly if he did, that they would show respect and decency if he trusted them. It is a lesson that he should have learned much sooner. He simply didn't believe the republicans would be so low or evil as to block the nomination for a year - even when he had the evidence from their lying to him repeatedly and when they had blocked the majority of his lower court nominees.
We can debate about how the party can get the vote, but we shouldn't have to debate or question any longer whether republicans will never do the right thing, never deal honestly, never tell the truth.