CCO TO LAUNCH A TUESDAY AND THURSDAY READERS FORUM

1. Anyone else glad an openly racist piece of trash is off the supreme court? Anyone else not surprised the Republicans politicized his death within hours?

   • I am taking the Fifth concerning Scalia’s death, but McConnell was really tasteless. The man wasn’t cold and Mitch was making it a political football.

   • He did sign off on a lot of executions. Never flinched. Those folks, guilty or not, didn’t have a chance on their final appeal. He went to the trouble of saying that the constitution didn’t guarantee a painless death when the subject of those grotesque experiments with new killdrugs were carried out on condemned inmates. Some of them writhed on the gurney for a long time, breaching the time frame any sane person would say constituted ‘cruel & unusual punishment’. Scalia recently said maybe the death penalty needed to be used more, even as America is moving away from it, like most of the rest of the civilized world. Not much to recommend the guy in my book.

   • Bob:

     You seem to have a bad habit of hiding from your own party’s history:

     http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420321/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen

     People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Lord save us from activist judges who are willing to pervert the Constitution of the United States for the popular flavor of the day.

     • Yawn. Read a damn book. Are you seriously that dumb? The parties flipped over 60 years ago. The last remnant of those Dixecrats is now pushing up daisies. Even he “repented.”

     • Lincoln was a liberal. He’d totally denounce today’s GOP. You look foolish claiming him.

2. The man’s dead.
   I remember a couple of old bags putting up some skag’s political signs up at a memorial service for a nice guy.
   Respect the dead, you’ll be dead some day too. Let God deal with his sins.

3. This is a great idea, CCO!

4. When I die, I want to go like my grandfather did, in his sleep.

   Not like the rest of the people in his car did screaming….

   • Scalia did apparently go in his sleep, and there is definitely a screaming carload of wholly owned righties.
     Beautifully played, Regulator!

5. The Second Amendment “surely elevates above all other interests the right of law-abiding, responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home.”
   Supreme Court Antonin Scalia

   • The 2nd amendment is the only part of the constitution the right cares about.

6. In keeping with the strict interpretation of the Constitution I do so believe in, I Antonin Scalia do appoint George W Bush President of the United States, President of Citizens United, and the only amigo who can lawfully appoint my successor.

   Keep an eye on him Big CEO in the Sky, he certainly is a yankee doodle dandy….

7. read:http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-supreme-court

   Since Scalia was so adamantly an Originalist, he would have surely been in favor of the president to appoint his successor. It is clear that was the intent of the Founding Fathers, as that is the example they set.

   • Check out what turtle face McConnell wrote in 2005 Ms. Blackburn:

     Senator McConnell:
     • “Any President’s judicial nominees should receive careful consideration. But after that debate, they deserve a simple up-or-down vote. . . . It’s time to move away from advise and obstruct and get back to advise and consent. The stakes are high . . . . The Constitution of the United States is at stake. Article II, Section 2 clearly provides that the President, and the President alone, nominates judges. The Senate is empowered to give advice and consent. But my Democratic colleagues want to change the rules. They want to reinterpret the Constitution to require a supermajority for confirmation. In effect, they would take away the power to nominate from the President and grant it to a minority of 41 Senators.” (States News Service, May 19, 2005)
     • “Because of the unprecedented obstruction of our Democratic colleagues, the Republican conference intends to restore the principle that, regardless of party, any President’s judicial nominees, after full debate, deserve a simple up-or-down vote. I know that some of our colleagues wish that restoration of this principle were not required. But it is a measured step that my friends on the other side of the aisle have unfortunately made necessary. For the first time in 214 years, they have changed the Senate’s ‘advise and consent’ responsibilities to ‘advise and obstruct.’ […]Given those results, many of us had hoped that the politics of obstruction would have been dumped in the dustbin of history. Regretfully, that did not happen.” [Senate Floor Speech, 5/19/05]
     • “What we’re talking about here is not the filibuster rule overall, but getting back to the practice of allowing judicial appointments for judge candidates who have a majority support in the Senate to have an up or down vote.” [CBS News, The Osgood File, 4/25/05]
     • “…I don’t want to get too technical here, but the point is, what Senator Frist is considering doing is not unprecedented. It was done by Senator Byrd when he was majority leader. What is unprecedented is the fact that the Senate, for the first time in 200 years, last Congress chose to filibuster judges for the purpose of defeating them. That had never been done before in the history of the Senate. That’s what’s new…What Senate Republicans are contemplating doing and what I think they should do is to get us back to the precedents that were established prior to the last Congress, in which judicial appointments were given an up-or-down – that is, a majority – vote.” [Fox News Sunday, 3/27/05]
     • “Let’s get back to the way the Senate operated for over 200 years, up or down votes on the president’s nominee, no matter who the president is, no matter who’s in control of the Senate. That’s the way we need to operate.” [Los Angeles Times, “The Nation; Clock Ticks on Effort to Defuse Senate Battle,” 5/23/05]

     My my how do times change….

     • I hope Bernie or Hillary wins and nominates Obama just to stick it to these morons.

     • Flipflopperism at it’s finest!

       • That’s what I want to see!

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