It is amazing to me how Obama continues to get away with being a hypocrite! In 2006 when he was a junior senator from Illinois he joined a filibuster to stop President George W, Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito. “That is an approach the president regrets,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. Well of course he regrets it! He wants to get his nominee, Merrick Garland, to replace Anthony Scalia appointed.
This would be a mistake. Although it may appear on the surface that he is not a bad choice considering it is coming form the President that said when he rush running for the office that he wanted to fundamentally transform the country.
In a October 2008 campaign visit to Columbia, Mo:
“Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: five days. Five days. After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign that’s taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
So I say that the Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnell is finally earning his keep. I applaud him for saying that he will not have a hearing for Obama’s supreme court nominee. The consequences of having him as a Supreme Court Justice for the remainder of his life could help Obama in his stated goal of fundamentally transforming the greatest country on earth.