Harry Reid – Lee Duigon

Justice Stephen Breyer warns against 'packing' Supreme Court - ABC News

Justice Stephen Breyer… about to make a gesture

By now, I’m sure, most of you have heard that left-winger Stephen Breyer is going to retire from the Supreme Court. He was careful to do it while SloJo Biden is, um, “president.” So we can expect another leftid to be nominated as his replacement.

Imagine if it was Harry Reid with 50 votes in the Senate, and George W. Bush had the appointment to make. Do you think his nominee would get any of those 50 Democrat votes? The whole thing would be stalled, at least until after the next Congressional elections.

We have 50 Republican votes in the Senate right now. They do not have to vote for SloJo’s nominee. If only they stand firmly against whoever it is… but I don’t know if there’s a bigger “If” than that.

Democrats stalled ten Bush nominees, and continually resorted to the threat of filibuster. Bush did get two Supreme Court justices–John Roberts (78-22, and a disappointment to conservatives) and Samuel Alito (58-42): both made possible by Republican control of the Senate.

The point is, throughout Bush’s presidency Democrats blocked as many judicial appointments as they could.

We’ll see if today’s Senate Republicans have that kind of discipline.

Probably they don’t.

I forbear to comment on libs ‘n’ progs turning cartwheels over the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. They are their own best advertisement.

And of course, here’s their chance to stack the Supreme Court during the last year of President *Batteries Not Included’s second term, enabling him to keep his hand around America’s throat for the next 30 years or so, given the court’s virtually dictatorial powers. His only problem will be to choose precisely which Leftist nudnick he wants to appoint. Jane Fonda? Bill Ayers? Louis Farrakhan? It’s an embarrassment of poverty.

But there’s a Republican majority in the Senate, which means that no one can become a Supreme Court justice unless the Republicans vote to confirm him (or her). No one. All the Senate Republicans have to do is… nothing.

They don’t even have to reject the nominee. They don’t have to vote on the matter at all. If they’re afraid of being called racists, afraid of their own shadows–well, all they have to do is nothing!

Stall for time, if you’re such cowards and dastards that you’re afraid to say “No!” to this president who throws like a girl. Yeah, yeah, we’re workin’ on it, ain’t we goin’ as fast as we can? Oh, darn, I lost that paperwork… Guess we’ll have to start over.

How quickly we forget.

When George W. Bush was president, and Harry Reid the Senate Minority Leader–that’s right, the Democrats didn’t have a majority–he tried to appoint Miguel Estrada to the appeals court in Washington, D.C. For two whole years the Democrats had hissy fits, and filibustered ceaselessly until Mr. Estrada withdrew his name from consideration. Two years!

All the Senate Republicans have to do, for only one year, is Nothing.

Even Beltway Republicans ought to be able to figure out how to do Nothing.