Should conservatives be outraged that senate Republicans plan to obstruct President Obama's eventual nominee to replace Scalia?

LTC (Join to see) I'm going to answer this without jumping on either side of the aisle.

Human beings are monkeys. Monkeys want their bananas. Any given monkey wants his or her banana to be HIS or HER banana...not some other monkey's banana. Any given monkey doesn't want to SHARE his or her banana with anyone else, no matter what they chitter publicly. Every monkey secretly wants every other monkey's bananas. A given monkey might accept that he or she can't HAVE -your- banana, because s/he knows s/he'd be ostracized if s/he took it from you...but that secret desire is there. S/he wants YOUR banana, too. And s/he doesn't want to give up any part of his or her own banana in the process. S/he will work tirelessly in an effort to GET your banana, while maintaining a front of compromise and inclusion. But still. In his or her eyes, that banana is rightfully his/hers.

The long and short of all this silly rhetoric? Everyone in a position to effect this change is going to do so in a manner that MOST FITS THEIR OWN PERSONAL DESIRE AND VIEWPOINT. So you can come here on RP and cry foul that the GOP might play dirty...but if you do, that's only because, THIS time (as opposed to the many times before when the Dems played dirty), YOUR banana is at stake. This time, the GOP can play dirty to get what they want. That hasn't always been the case, and when it wasn't, the GOP types were the ones posting threads like this.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to sit over here and peel my banana. Which you'd best not try to take.

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No, it is the job of the Senate to either confirm, or deny an appointee. Why should anybody be outraged regarding our Constitutional separation of powers?

To me, "asking" him to keep the vacancy for a year in the (GOP's) hope that a Republican wins the White House and the GOP maintains a senate majority is downright insulting. Nobody asked Reagan to wait a year when he nominated Scalia, and the Democratic senate did not obstruct. Ditto for George W. Bush's two Supreme Court nominations and Barack Obama's first two, none of whom were obstructed by the other party whether in or out of the majority.

I find it disgusting that so-called conservatives who love to flout the constitution are now trying to block a duty of the POTUS that is clearly defined by the constitution just because they want to keep their conservative majority that they've had in the court since th 1980s.

Elections have consequences, and the GOP lost th last two, which means they do NOT get to choose nominees for Supreme Court vacancies this terms.