Conservatives hammer GOP senator over Supreme Court dissent

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Days after Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) called on the Senate to take up Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, conservative groups are urging him, in no uncertain terms, to reconsider.

The Judicial Crisis Network is preparing to launch an ad campaign to remind the Kansas Republican of the stakes involved with the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. It's the latest instance of the deep-pocketed group pushing the Senate Republicans' agenda over the airwaves. The group just launched a $1 million ad buy in Colorado this week against Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), part of a $4 million campaign in half a dozen states: Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio and West Virginia.

"We are in the process of putting the finishing touches on a robust, multifaceted TV, digital, and grass-roots campaign designed to remind Sen. Moran that he represents the people of Kansas and neither President Obama nor the Democratic Party," JCN chief counsel and policy director Carrie Severino said in a statement Friday.

Severino, who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas, said "Obama is trying to deny voters in Kansas, and around the country, a voice in the direction of their Supreme Court and Sen. Moran should not play into his hands, he should stand with the Republican leadership and the American people.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/jerry-moran-merrick-garland-tea-party-221233#ixzz43wWwbcOK

Super PACs arguing on behalf of the GOP is disconcertingly dystopian.

[RandomGuy]

Republican douchebaggery is growing exponentially.

Shocking that a party would ignore the constitution so readily.

[RandomGuy]

“The conservative grass-roots expects Republicans to stand up and fight for the issues they care about," FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon said in a statement. "So far, our community of grass-roots activists has sent nearly a million messages to Senate Republicans urging them to stay strong and not hold hearings or votes on any Obama nominee to the Supreme Court. If Republicans continue to ignore their calls, they do so at their peril."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/jerry-moran-merrick-garland-tea-party-221233#ixzz45GVnC4F3

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Fuck man. I can't wait until this stupid shit blows up in their faces, and President Clinton withdraws Garland, and puts as liberal a candidate as she can find into the slot.

Serve the conservative dipshits opposing this guy right, and I will find the schadenfreude so tasty.

[spurraider21]

:lol "grass-roots campaign"

[RandomGuy]

:lol "grass-roots campaign"

Read:

Astroturf

Astroturfing

An artificially-manufactured political movement designed to give the appearance of grass roots activism.
Campaigns & Elections magazine defined astroturf as a “grassroots program that involves the instant manufacturing of public support for a point of view in which either uninformed activists are recruited or means of deception are used to recruit them.”
Unlike natural grassroots campaigns which are people-rich and money-poor, an astroturf campaign tends to be the opposiite, well-funded but with little actual support from voters.
http://politicaldictionary.com/words/astroturf/

[boutons_deux]

Republican blockade failing to persuade American mainstream

http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/embedded_image/public/4.21.16.jpg?itok=gmlOqUIz

What was a one-point advantage for the White House’s position in February is a 22-point advantage now. A closer look (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/democrats-are-winning-the-supreme-court-fight-over-merrick-garland-big-time/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines) suggests even Republican voters are starting to shift away from their own party’s position.

At least for now, there’s no evidence to suggest Senate Republicans care at all about public opinion.

What was a one-point advantage for the White House’s position in February is a 22-point advantage now. A closer look (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/democrats-are-winning-the-supreme-court-fight-over-merrick-garland-big-time/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines) suggests even Republican voters are starting to shift away from their own party’s position.

At least for now, there’s no evidence to suggest Senate Republicans care at all about public opinion.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republican-blockade-failing-persuade-american-mainstream?cid=sm_fb_maddow

... and not one Repug Senator will lose its seat because of the blockade. They simply don't answer to the public, only to their big donors.