Political Quotes

“yesterday the senior Senator from Iowa, along with other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that they won't be holding a hearing on President Obama's eventual nominee to the Supreme Court. They won't give the eventual nominee the common courtesy of even a meeting--no hearings, no meeting--and this was all done even before the President sent a name to us. This is historically unbelievable and historically unprecedented. Republicans don't know who the nominee will be, and they have already mentioned that. Already they have decided they won't even start the confirmation process. Why? Because the person was nominated by President Obama. Remember, the Republican leader said many years ago that the No. 1 goal he had was to make sure President Obama was not reelected. That failed miserably. The President won by more than 5 million votes. Everything has been done by the Republicans in the Senate to embarrass, obstruct, filibuster--anything that could be done to focus attention on President Obama, none of which has helped the country. Senator Grassley has surrendered every pretense of independence and let the Republican leader annex the Judiciary Committee into a narrow, partisan mission of obstruction and gridlock--so partisan, in fact, that the senior Senator from Iowa won't respond to a personal invitation from the President inviting him to the White House to discuss the vacancy. Think about that.…”