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ladym55

(2,577 posts)
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 07:18 PM Mar 2016

Rob Portman thinks all Ohioans are idiots [View all]

We all know that our Senator, good ol' Rob Portman, is one of the Republicans refusing to hold hearings on the Supreme Court vacancy. I contacted him and told him fairly bluntly that he needed to do his job. I reminded him that the people decided in 2012 who got to nominate justices and that justices DO get nominated in election years.

So ol' Rob responded--
1--The people needed to decide. (Huh. Seems to me I told him already that I didn't buy that argument.)
2--No one ever, ever in the entire history of the US nominated a justice in the year of a presidential election. (Apparently we Ohio residents have never done a Google search on SCOTUS nominations.)



I guess he could tell me the truth: Rob is a GOP hack through and through, who takes his marching orders from Mitch McConnell and doesn't care one whit about the nation or the state he pretends to represent.

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Isn't he running for re-election BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #1
Yes, he is ladym55 Mar 2016 #3
Let's hope that his stand on this BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #6
The people of Ohio did elect him. liberal N proud Mar 2016 #2
Yes, we did ladym55 Mar 2016 #5
Portman is a liar and I hope that he is voted out of office Gothmog Mar 2016 #4
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