Like it or not....the President nominates the pick and the Senate confirms or denies.....it's the way it is. Do you actually think if it's a democratic president and a democratic controlled senate, that the lefties would wait, lol?
Not quite true. When the shoe was on the other foot, noting that Dems did not nuke the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments, and they sure as hell could have, it took several votes from the other side to confirm a SCOTUS appointment. Unlike republicans, given that a supreme court justice is appointed for life, and that his votes can have a profound effect on Americans for a long time, dems believed that that important of a decision should be bipartisan. We wouldn't have waited, but several of your party would have weighed in on the appointment. That's no longer true, Repubs dont' give a damn any more, about what the left thinks. They nuked the filibuster for Scotus nominations.
But, republicans are comfortable making such an important decision with no participation from the other side, which is why they nuked the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments. They did it as a tit for tat for Reid's nuking the filibuster for federal bench appointments, but Reid had no choice. Fed judges were overworked, and judgeships had to be filled, and Senate repubs were, because of the filibuster, were blocking via filibusters all fed bench nominations en masse. The only way Obama could get judges was to nuke the filibuster for fed bench nominations. But, When republicans took over the senate, they blocked ALL bench appointments and at that point, of course, Reid's move backfired. But, filibuster or not, Obama was not to get his judges because of republicans playing power grab and not doing their job. They think that grabbing power is their job. That is not what the founding fathers had in mind at all.
Trump likes to brag his record of appointments is 'historic' totally ignorant of the fact that the only reason he has been allowed to make that many appointments is because McConnell blocked, en masse, all appointments by Obama, leaving those positions open. then they have the gall to think that, because they won the house, that they have a 'mandate'. No, more people voted for dems in the house and senate, but due to three factors:
1. Historically speaking, democrats tend to be lazy and not vote during off presidential vote years. It's a sad, but true fact ( though the right has woken us up, of late )
2 The districts which send congresspersons to the house , have been gerrymandered in favor of republicans.
3. The 2 senators per state system, over time and the evolution of the urban states, now favors republicans. The forefathers were unable to foresee this.
They are able to wrestle control.
That they controlled the house and senate during Obama was NOT because it was the 'will of the people' it was due to the will of a minority ( older folks mainly, who vote republican ) who are far more likely to vote during off president years.
Well, as of 2018, dems have been woken up. We are voting a lot more now, and the right is going to feel our collective wrath, as there are far more of us than there are of them.
Republicans ( excluding the Lincoln repubs ) are not about democracy, they don't give a damn about 'bipartisanship' , they are interested in one thing and one thing only, power. Naked power. The will of the people be damned.
2,868,676 more votes were cast for a democrat president in 2016, 17,537,638 more votes were cast for democrats in the senate in 2018, and 9,710,275 more votes were cast for democrats in the house in 2018, Biden is ahead nationally by several points. These incontrovertible facts prove that democrats, overall, have the message that the public favors, but republicans don't give a damn.
