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« on: February 22, 2016, 03:13:16 PM »
...in 1992.

On Monday, C-SPAN tweeted a clip of then-senator Joe Biden saying President George H.W. Bush should wait until after the November election to name a nominee.

https://vine.co/v/irTVA3tmua0

Are they all hypocrites?
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 03:29:42 PM »
Partisanship is a hell of a drug.
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2016, 03:54:17 PM »
Okay, he was wrong then and the Republicans are wrong now? What's the problem here?
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2016, 04:17:41 PM »
Well damn, this shatters any preconceived notions that I may have had about human beings. I can't believe people are actually capable of changing their minds or thinking differently then they did a quarter century ago.
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2016, 04:19:07 PM »
Politicians of all political persuasions are shameless opportunists.  Film at 11, 6 and then 11 again.  I'm pretty skeptical about how much either the Constitution or the relative merits of public policies matter to the vast majority of them.  Then again, honestly, I'm often ambivalent about the Constitution myself, so I'm not much of a bargain as a judge.
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2016, 04:20:57 PM »
Yes, because back then the Republicans were all firmly of the opinion that the president should wait to name a nominee until after the election... oh wait
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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2016, 04:52:04 PM »

Yes, they're politicians.
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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2016, 05:22:52 PM »
Which SCOTUS vacancy was he referring to in 1992?  There wasn't one.
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« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2016, 05:28:17 PM »
Quote from: Joe Republic on February 22, 2016, 05:22:52 PM
Which SCOTUS vacancy was he referring to in 1992?  There wasn't one.
I'm guessing this is probably some totally unrelated vacancy.
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« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2016, 05:31:22 PM »
Didn't Biden end up voting to confirm Clarence Thomas?
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« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2016, 05:46:52 PM »
Quote from: Californian Tony Returns on February 22, 2016, 05:31:22 PM
Didn't Biden end up voting to confirm Clarence Thomas?

No.
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« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2016, 05:48:33 PM »

For some reason I though he did. Glad to know I was wrong.
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« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2016, 07:41:58 PM »
Politicians are hypocrites. In other news, the sky is blue.
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« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2016, 07:44:39 PM »
My party can do no wrong, ever. The other party is always wrong, especially if they do the exact same thing.

That rule is true for both parties.
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2016, 08:17:33 PM »
Well he was very wrong. A president has the right to nominate someone until the day they leave office, no matter what party the presidency is occupied by.
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« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2016, 11:24:12 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2016, 12:05:50 AM »
Biden disagrees that the excerpt represents his views
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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2016, 12:26:39 PM »
Quote from: wifikitten on February 22, 2016, 08:17:33 PM
Well he was very wrong. A president has the right to nominate someone until the day they leave office, no matter what party the presidency is occupied by.

Agreed. And the Senate has the right to reject that nominee for any reason.

This entire affair is an example of the Republicans being their own worst enemy. They never should have boasted that they wouldn't consider the nominees. They should have heard them out and then either voted them down or not given them a vote. Then the spectacle would have been Obama demanding his nominee be accepted despite voting down both Bush nominees.
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