Graham to Whiny Libs: ‘If You Want To Pick Judges, Win an Election’
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Republican Sen, Lindsey Graham had some harsh words Tuesday for Senate Democrats for opposing the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
As part of his opening statement before the first day of Kavanaugh’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham lectured Democrats by saying he got “a lot of crap” for voting for Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor during the Barack Obama administration.
“I’m here to tell anybody in the country who listens that this is so hypocritical of my friends on the other side,” Graham said.
Despite disagreeing with Kagan and Sotomayor politically, he said, he voted for them because he thought they were qualified for the position, according to CBS News .
“They were different than what I would have picked but by any reasonable measure they were qualified,” Graham said.
Check out a portion of Graham’s remarks here:
After Tuesday’s hearing turned into a raucous show of Democrat senators staging procedural objections and liberal protesters having to be removed from the hearing room, President Donald Trump also weighed in on the Democrats’ behavior on Twitter.
“The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future Justice of the Supreme Court are truly a display of how mean, angry, and despicable the other side is,” Trump said.
The White House also released a briefings statement outlining why Kavanaugh is exceptionally qualified, impartial, and devoted to precedent.
The fact sheet included the number of times Kavanaugh ruled against Republicans and the Bush administration as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It also showed that judges named by Democrat presidents are nearly as likely to agree with Kavanaugh’s opinions as those put on the bench by Republicans.
“His opinions are as likely to be joined in full by his Democrat-appointed colleagues (88.67 percent) as by his Republican-appointed colleagues (88.94 percent),” the fact sheet said.
On paper it seems that Kavanaugh would be the best choice and most impartial pick for the job. But for Democrats invested so completely in obstructing Trump’s agenda, Kavanaugh is unacceptable.
Should Democrats confirm Kavanaugh?
Graham had a word of advice for the opposition party.
“You had a chance and you lost. If you want to pick judges from your way of thinking, then you better win an election,” he said.
It seems that Democrats are not concerned with how qualified or impartial Kavanaugh is. They want a Democrat instead.
Maybe they will be able to appoint their own justices someday if they can offer a candidate that voters actually want.
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Any justice picked by any Republican President causes mass histrionics on the left. There's no principle involved.
they were so close to having control of the supreme court they can still taste it.
they tripped and fell just before finish line
(turn your sound down - the screeching is loud)
And that my friend is the answer...
The continued hysteria of the Anti-trumpers because they but there faith in Hillaryious Hillary will continue till 2024.
They seen there chance of witling away at the 2nd Amendment collapsed for the next 20 plus years.
You know if Abuela would have won Ginsburg would have retired her 1st week in office, I'm surprised she hasn't awoken from one of her naps while hearing a case myself.
" It seems that Democrats are not concerned with how qualified or impartial Kavanaugh is. They want a Democrat instead. "
They're also "Yakking" about bipartisanship being needed, although "Bipartisanship" DIDN'T exist under 8 years of Obama.
We aren't campaigning anymore, the election is over, get over it .
Leahy sounds like a "Drunk Radical" today.
Democrats look sooooo cute with their little posters. Are they channeling their grade school days …… AGAIN !
Graham To Whiny Libs: ‘If You Want To Pick Judges, Win An Election’
Well thy did "win an eection"--twice in a row. (And when Obama was elected and then re-elected-- fair and square-- then the Conservatives were the whiny ones!
Heh
Hello, This is 2018.
Shocker huh?
Graham To Whiny Libs: ‘If You Want To Pick Judges, Win An Election’
Is that with or without conspiring with a hostile foreign power in conjunction with using 87 million stolen I.D.'s to target American voters with anti-opponent propaganda, hacked e-mails, Wikileaks, Cambridge Analytica, an FBI Director revealing an investigation-in-progress regarding Clinton (while failing to reveal a simultaneously-in-progress investigation into Russian election-interference) …
… Hey Lindsey … answer the question for this "Whiny Lib."
I've got it... None of that happened. You're welcome.
Great rebuttal ...
... highly specific, clairvoyant ... thanks for all you clarified.
... while whistling past the graveyard.
Light In The Loafers Lindsay never says anything worth listening to.
My .... that comment has a very bigoted tone for an allegedly enlightened person such as yourself.
You just let them run their mouths.
Eventually they expose themselves.
The people who liked his gay slip doesn't surprise me either.
Between the rampant misogyny and anti-gay statements, the progressives on this site sure have a lot of issues.
SOP .... they give themselves a Hall Pass on such things ..... they are very enlightened AND entitled after all.
Just ask them .....
the real question is:
what will the left do after the fisa application is declassified and proves beyond doubt that obamas admin used fabricated evidence from russia, which was paid for by the dnc and clinton, combined with the fbi and doj to take down an incoming president?
there is no statute of limitations on treason.
trump has been waiting for congressional calls to declassify the fisa app.
now he has that in spades... just doing what congress demanded.... ha.
trump is using politics to keep politicians from claiming trump went after politicians based on politics... LOL
ok that landed in the wrong place... oops.