Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Don't nominate anyone and let the next president, who hopefully will be more reasonable, do it instead.
And when a president is elected who is even further to the left than Obama? Then what?
That president has the same choice Obama has. You get that I didn't say this is what he
should do, but that this is his alternative choice to nominating someone that the Senate will confirm. If the next president also insists on putting up only names that he or she knows the Senate will not confirm, the those nominees will also not get confirmed.
What about this is confusing to people?
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Put it off for 4 years and pray a Republican gets elected?
No. Go and talk to the majority in the Senate and come to a consensus on a nomination. You know, like how the system is supposed to work. I even quoted the freaking constitutional language on this:
US Constitution wrote:
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law
He's supposed to do this with the "advice and consent" of the Senate. You all are conveniently ignoring the "advice" portion of that. He's supposed to go to the Senate and actually ask them which potential nominations they're likely to confirm, and then make his choice out of that list. I get that this has been turned into yet another partisan fight, but it's not supposed to be "President nominates someone he likes and tells the Senate to STFU". And it's certainly not supposed to be "Blame the Senate if they can't agree". If the president nominates someone the Senate does not like, it's
his fault, not the Senates. He's supposed to seek their advice on his selection, not the other way around.
Edited, Mar 16th 2016 3:25pm by gbaji