Republican Senator Tries to Save His Job By Sucking Up to President Obama
It turns out, sucking up to President Obama by doing their job is a much smarter strategy. What a sick burn.
It turns out, sucking up to President Obama by doing their job is a much smarter strategy. What a sick burn.
“Senator McConnell will cave and President Obama will fill this vacancy this year,” Harry Reid predicted. Mitch McConnell’s House of Obstruction Cards came tumbling down today in quick succession right after President Obama announced his SCOTUS nominee.
In the blink of a Merrick Garland tear in the Rose Garden, the first Senate Republican has already realized he would prefer to avoid the Obama trap. He would very much like to be re-elected, you see.
Moments after a humbled and visibly emotional Judge Merrick Garland introduced himself to the American public from the Rose Garden after an introduction by President Obama, the outrage over Republican obstruction began.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, fired back against the already entrenched Republican obstruction to a President Obama nominee, saying SCOTUS is too important to leave understaffed.