This is priceless:
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) hasn’t yet met with Supreme Court nominee Merrick B. Garland for what has been a long anticipated encounter between the former Judiciary Committee chairman and the federal appeals court judge he has long praised.
But when the meeting does happen, don’t expect Garland to succeed in convincing Hatch to support his nomination, because Hatch has already declared that it won’t.
“Like many of my Senate colleagues, I recently met with Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. … Our meeting, however, does not change my conviction that the Senate should consider a Supreme Court nominee after this presidential election cycle,” Hatch wrote in an op-ed published on the website of the Deseret News early Thursday morning and later removed. It remains available in a Google database.
This is the same Orrin Hatch who recommended that President Obama nominate Merrick Garland to replace John Paul Stevens when he retired back in 2010.
This is the same Orrin Hatch who said this less than one week before President Obama actually did nominate Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court:
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told Newsmax on Friday that President Obama wouldn’t nominate a “moderate” like Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. On Wednesday, the Utah senator was proven wrong.
“The President told me several times he’s going to name a moderate, but I don’t believe him,” Hatch told the conservative news site on Friday.
“[Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man,” he continued. “He probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election. So I’m pretty sure he’ll name someone the [liberal Democratic base] wants.”
Now he’s decided he won’t support a hearing for Garland and has actually written an opinion piece to rationalize his decision, and he’s done it before meeting with the judge.
This is a perfect illustration of the kind of obstruction the president has faced from the Republicans. I’m not sure I could ever find a more apt demonstration.
Yet DWS & Co. won’t take advantage of this to take back the House. I know Hatch is the Senate but the House is just as obstructionist and pointless under GOP direction.
Apropos of nothing, when she speaks, DWS sounds very much like Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama.
Recommended for the Futurama reference.
50+ votes to repeal Obamacare.
NOT ONE VOTE on the American Jobs Bill.
And this just illustrates why the Democrats have trouble making headway: the Republicans keep changing the rules. They can’t even be bothered to keep track of their own lies, because no one calls them on it when the lies are exposed.
Hypocrites, thy name is Republican.
What part of ‘ we won’t even take a vote’, is unclear?
this is who they are?
this is the scam they’ve been running.
And, it’s absolutely ridiculous.
already knows the outcome of what has been a long anticipated encounter that has yet to occur…amazing…the man’s either channelling joseph smith or he’s been tree hugging in palmyra, ny.
wonder if he could give me any can’t miss stock tips.
Enron.
yeah…that works.