re: #87 Barefoot Grin

The next game the GOP is playing is that he should adhere to the Thurmond Rule. For those not familiar with that BS, it’s the claim by Thurmond that a president shouldn’t nominate anyone within the final 6 months of their presidency.

For those keeping count, Obama still has roughly 11 months to go.

The GOP keeps trying to play these procedural games, and it just doesn’t pass the smell test.

I get it; the GOP doesn’t want Obama flipping the ideological balance of the Court from conservative to liberal. But guess what, he can and has that right under the Constitution. If the Senate wants to block his nomination from consideration, that’s on them and it will be their obstructionism that will come back to bite the GOP. But the nation will see just how qualified his nomination will be and if he picks someone recently confirmed, it’ll show just how nakedly partisan the GOP are - that they aren’t interested in governance, but rather obstructionism and being the party of No.

And in any event, the rule doesn’t apply since this is outside the 6 month window that nonsense contemplated. #GOPMath

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 16, 2016

More to the point, the GOP nonsense actually starts with the Dixiecrats thwarting Fortas being confirmed as Chief Justice (he was already on the bench). That’s the current GOP base for those not keeping score. They were pissed at their segregationism being rolled back by the Warren court. Oh, and they weren’t exactly hiding their anti Semitism either (Fortas was Jewish).

So, yeah, the GOP hypocrisy on this runs deep and long - and has its genesis in segregationism, anti Semitism, and racism (what, you mean you’re surprised that the GOP now champions all of the above?)