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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
While I generally believe that the GOP should vote down the sort of person that Obama would be likely to nominate, and I wish Obama would not nominate, I understand why he would want to. I do think there should be an up or down vote, as putting the job of the Senate off to protect individual Senators from going on the record in a difficult vote is detestable. And I loathe it as much when McConnell does it as I did when Reid so frequently availed himself of that tactic (pretty much all of 2014).
As to what the Dems actually did with the Alito nomination? You mean the failed filibuster initiated by Kerry and joined by Obama? I guess you are correct in that all of the Dems were not idiot extremists at that time, but there was certainly a concerted effort to obstruct a SC nominee for political reasons. That was not an attempt where the majority voted to block a nominee; it was an attempt by a minority to obstruct.
And as for being as reasonable as Harry Reid, you do recall that Reid personally led the effort to prevent many judicial nominees from getting a hearing at all in 2005. Just ask Bill Frist.
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Harry Reid didn't support the idea of preventing any Bush nominees. The Dems had enough votes to sustain a filibuster, but Reid and other refused to support that tactic.
But hey, the GOP can't be as reasonable as Harry Reid. How pathetic.
