Politics The 2016 US Presidential Election

+ one for what Matian said.

Hell, the Republicans were promising to fight anything Obama attempted when it became apparent that he was going to win the Presidential election (before the final election results, before he was sworn in). That was the most shameful display of partisan politics that I had ever seen in modern US politics.

 

I've been looking for a graph like this for a while.
I think it proves that the Republicans can't run out the clock on the President.
Not only are their multiple cases of judges (one during Bush) being picked during election years but none are confirmed in less than 100 days.
Three times that just isn't going to fly especially if the President picks someone who was confirmed by a majority of Republicans when they were put on the lower court.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/13/us/how-long-does-it-take-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee.html

 

This development should really piss-off the Republicans.

 

I believe their only policy/platform is that they are pissed. See Trump, Cruz, Rubio, ...

Here's where I put in my prediction.
Obama will nominate a moderate liberal that has been recently vetted and approved by Congress. Congress will use every means possible to avoid a vote, no up or down vote, no vote whatsoever.

President Hillary will nominate Obama for the post.

 

So the Republicans have been squealing about waiting to let the American people by electing a new president. But the fact is, Obama was already elected by the American people. Twice. Bush wasn't even elected the first time and he got to put someone on the court

 

The GOP saying that the president should not fulfill his duty and nominate a Supreme Court justice-- and threatening that if he does, they will refuse to hold hearings or confirm any nominee-- is such unbelievable and egregiously self-serving hypocrisy. They didn't bitch when Reagan appointed Justice Kennedy in his last year of office. Or when Ford nominated Justice Stevens in his. Or when Nixon appointed both Justice Powell and Justice Rhenquist in '72.

The Senate needs to suck it the fuck up and do their Constitutional duty in a responsible and sane fashion.

 

Bye, Bye, Bush

 

Scrod.

 

Trump, Sanders....

 

Trump marches on...

Nevada conquered. What's next?

I think it's looking very likely that he will be the republican candidate. I also think Clinton is going to be the Democrat candidate (unless Sanders can turn things around, which doesn't seem likely).

There is a good chance that Trump will be your next president.

 

I am still holding out some hope for Sanders. I think a Hillary-Trump election is going to be disastrous.

Unless Sanders Runs, A Trump Nomination Means A Trump Presidency

I disagree with some of the characterizations of Bernie, but overall, I think this article makes some solid points.

 

If Bloomberg runs, that could be interesting to watch.

 

The problem is Bloomberg won't run against Clinton, but would run against Sanders. Which will cause whoever the GOP candidate is to win. I would bet that Jill Stein in the Green Party would get 5-10% if Sanders drops out too. There seems to be a lot of debate on the Left that Hillary isn't going to represent them. I'm not sure it will be the end of the two party system though. Not unless the Tea Party also runs someone against Trump in the general election and nobody gets the 270 electoral votes to win. I'm not sure what happens then.