{"id":33037,"date":"2018-04-07T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T15:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33037"},"modified":"2018-04-07T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T15:52:07","slug":"confirmation-of-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33037","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Of The Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article today about some recent comments by Joe Biden<\/a>. The comments provide insight into the poisonous atmosphere that permeates Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n

The article reports Joe Biden’s comments in an interview with Jon Favreau<\/a> on “Pod Save America,” a liberal podcast.<\/p>\n

This is part of the conversation:<\/p>\n

FAVREAU: Well, sir, I wanted to start with the economy but, real quick, if Democrats<\/a> take back the Senate and a seat opens up on the Supreme Court in the next two years, should Democrats hold that seat open like Republicans<\/a> did to Obama?<\/strong><\/p>\n

BIDEN: I don’t think so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FAVREAU: Even if it means they get another Gorsuch?<\/strong><\/p>\n

BIDEN: No, no, that’s a big difference. Remember, I’m the guy that kept there from being a guy who was maybe the most brilliant conservative who was nominated for the Supreme Court<\/em> (Favreau snickers) and I kept him off the court. And I was able to … in the Judiciary Committee<\/a> (to) defeat (Clarence) Thomas (nominated by the elder Bush four years later). Bork<\/a> got flat defeated. Thomas got defeated in committee. But the Constitution says the Senate shall advise and consent, not a committee shall advise and consent. And so, you know, you can, I don’t think we should step away for a moment<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

…Biden lets the cat out of the bag. The biggest problem for liberals when it came to Bork was not his originalist views of the Constitution, or that he pulled the trigger for Nixon in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre<\/a>, but the fact that he was <\/em>brilliant and could be expected to push the court to the right for generations to come — hence he had to be destroyed. How seemingly gracious of Biden to acknowledge Bork as legal exemplar, albeit long after it mattered and seeing how it is now beyond dispute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worth noting is that Bork’s months-long nomination battle in 1987 roughly aligned with Biden’s first doomed run for the presidency which ended amid growing evidence of propensity for plagiarizing remarks from other politicians. Also leading the charge<\/a> against Bork that year was Senator Ted Kennedy<\/a>, Democrat of Massachusetts<\/a>. This week, a movie comes out portraying how Kennedy left a woman to drown in his car<\/a> while he waited 10 hours to report the accident and focused instead on saving his political hide. It’s taken Hollywood nearly 50 years to depict one of worst — and most dramatic — political scandals of the last century. But again, better late than never.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is truly sad that we have reached the point in our government where the political leanings of a Supreme Court nominee are more important than his qualifications. Unfortunately, I am not optimistic that this is ever going to change.<\/p>\n

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