Obama: "Get Orrin Hatch on the phone."

"Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle" (1500sand535) 03/16/2016 at 17:47 • Filed to: None

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I don’t know if Obama actually said that, but here is a real nice quote for why at least one republican senator shouldn’t be dragging his feet, from Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing in 1997:

Mr. HATCH: “Madam President, I want to thank my colleagues who voted for Judge Merrick Garland. I believe they did what was right. With regard to Federal judgeships, we ought to do what is right. I take this job as seriously as anything I have ever done in the Senate. I want to thank my colleagues who voted with us for supporting the nominee… Now, I am upset—there is no question about that—because I think the finest nominee that I have seen from this administration is Merrick Garland, and I think he deserved Better”(than to wait 1.5 years for confirmation).

So Mr. Hatch, do you still take your job seriously?

For Sweden > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 03/16/2016 at 17:52

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What you did with the formatting here is terrible

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > For Sweden 03/16/2016 at 17:57

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Yeah, it's because of how I was copying and pasting from the PDF on congress.gov. Better?

For Sweden > Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle 03/16/2016 at 18:03

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Better.

I really don’t see how President Obama could make this phone call after he promised to block any and all judicial appointments by President Bush.