A SCOTUS Opening

[CJD]

(09-22-2020, 03:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Heck, maybe the GOP is trying to mend fences. They seem to be doing what the Dems wanted in 2016. 

Bur enough about them. How do you feel? Should a POTUS be able to nominate a SCOTUS justice while he's still in office? 

I say yes; whether it's on day 1 or day 1461

I agree with you. A president is a president for the entire 4 years. 

Unfortunately, the past matters. You can't have 2016 and 2020 both happen the way they are going to happen and expect it to not further divide the country. And expecting the Democrats and their supporters to just allow the GOP to walk all over them just because "it is technically right" is not how humans work. They have memories. And the only thing democrats will remember whilr the GOP is ham-fistedly jamming their pick through in the next 2 months is how they sat on their asses for 10 months and just...pretended like Obama wasn't president because of their hatred for him and everything he stands for. And now, in 2020, the Democrats should respond in kind.

The gloves came off in 2016 and Republicans expecting the Democrats will just put the gloves back on and play ball the way it was meant to be played is not only absurd, it's insulting.

If the GOP wanted to mend fences, they'd nominate the most mediocre of picks in Merrick Garland. That is how you bring a country back together. Compromise. A world where no one is actually happy, but no one is totally ****** either. Politics don't have to be a zero sum game. It's just, in the last few decades, the politicians in Washington have made it that way on purpose.