"Now let's move forward on the direction that's been chosen and go about discussing it constructively."
A few thoughts on this:
- First, roughly half (and the majority of the votes) did not agree with this direction. That isn't much of a mandate.
- Second, the party that won has repeatedly shown that they don't want to work on compromise, or follow standard procedure such as allowing a sitting President to get a hearing for a nominee for the Supreme Court.
As a person that feels that this trifecta will change the country for years to come (as you rightly point out), my hope is that the Dems do exactly to Republicans what they've done for the last 4 years - obstruct in any way possible. I'm tired of one side feeling that they have to play by the rules and the other feeling they can ignore them. And I hope that Ruth Ginsburg serves at least for the first term.
> allowing a sitting President to get a hearing for a nominee for the Supreme Court.
Let's talk about George W. Bush's nominees...
Politics is politics and to pretend that one side or the other plays them "dirty" and the other side plays them "clean" is naiveté of an astounding level.
I'm not naive enough to think that Dems never play dirty, but what's astonishing that you seem to give the Republicans a complete pass with regard to their actual behavior by making a false equivalency: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/...
A few thoughts on this:
- First, roughly half (and the majority of the votes) did not agree with this direction. That isn't much of a mandate.
- Second, the party that won has repeatedly shown that they don't want to work on compromise, or follow standard procedure such as allowing a sitting President to get a hearing for a nominee for the Supreme Court.
As a person that feels that this trifecta will change the country for years to come (as you rightly point out), my hope is that the Dems do exactly to Republicans what they've done for the last 4 years - obstruct in any way possible. I'm tired of one side feeling that they have to play by the rules and the other feeling they can ignore them. And I hope that Ruth Ginsburg serves at least for the first term.