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Republicans Never Listen to Constituents

Republicans pay no attention to what their political representatives believe or say. Or the fact they talk out of both sides of their mouths. What does Mitch McConnell REALLY believe about the President appointing judges? Does he believe the president should or should not appoint judges? I bet you can't guess and if you guess....you are PROBABLY wrong. Who was president in 2005? Oh, right. A Republican, George Bush. And who was president when McConnell voted to approve a Supreme Court Justice (Kennedy) in the his final year......Reagan. What's different now?
Sen. Mitch McConnell, in 2005, defending the absolute right of a sitting president to nominate judges.
"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."
"[T]he 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.'"
Take it from Sen. Mitch McConnell: for the Senate to block a sitting president from nominating a Supreme Court nominee—not just a specific nominee, mind you, but any nominee at all, would put the Constitution of the United States itself at stake. And he's a patriot, so he would never even consider such a thing.R

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