Political Quotes

“Mr. President, good morning to you. You stand watches everywhere. We are here, in part, because of a Supreme Court nomination, but we are here also because of a Supreme Court process that has turned foul in a considerable number of ways. I would like to spend the time that I have with you this morning walking through some of the history that got us there. With respect to the now-standard Republican talking points that the only reason that we are here today in this partisan wrangle is because of Harry Reid, I would submit that the spectacle of procedural wreckage that surrounds all three of the last Supreme Court nominees completely belies any suggestion that Senator McConnell would have respected the filibuster of a Supreme Court Justice. They have broken essentially every rule that got in their way--it didn't matter what it was--over and over again. And the idea that they would break every rule but that one simply makes no sense. So I can see that it is sort of a cute and clever argument to go back and point out that Harry Reid broke the effort to stonewall all of President Obama's appointees to the DC Circuit Court, which was what was going on at the time, but the rest of the wreckage belies that this would have been protected by Leader McConnell in the mad, headlong rush to load up the Supreme Court with nominees who have been through this very, very peculiar Supreme Court process.…”