Political Quotes

“Senate Republicans have finally admitted that their obstruction of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee has nothing to do with precedent, it has nothing to do with history, it has nothing to do with the Constitution, but it has everything to do with partisan politics. Last Thursday, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee forced Chairman Grassley and the committee Republicans to debate the Supreme Court vacancy during a markup. Remember, this is the same markup the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Grassley, canceled a week earlier because he and Republicans didn't want to make the meeting open to the public. He tried to have a secret meeting; Democrats wouldn't agree. On last Thursday when they finally had a meeting, the senior Senator from South Carolina, a Republican, said: We are setting a precedent here today, Republicans are, that in the last year at least of a lame duck eight-year term--I would say it's going to be a four-year term--that you're not going to fill a vacancy of the Supreme Court based on what we're doing here today. We're headed to changing the rules, probably in a permanent fashion. I applaud Senator Graham's forthrightness in admitting what his Republican colleagues refuse to admit: Their obstruction of a Supreme Court nominee is unprecedented. The senior Senator from South Carolina said that, and that is what I have been saying.…”