Democrats awash in righteous indignation about the GOP vow to block any proposed replacement for the late Antonin Scalia keep embarrassing themselves. Before sounding off again they should follow my grandmother’s adage: If you are going to lie you need a good memory.
First, Senator [crscore]Charles Schumer[/crscore] was reminded that in 2007 he called for voting down almost anybody else George W. Bush nominated to the Supreme Court. And yesterday, video surfaced of then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden saying in 1992 that nobody should be considered for the Court until after the election that year.
That video got saturation coverage but almost nobody has noticed that Biden’s obstructionism is not just theoretical.
On January 25, 2006, Biden was one of only 24 of the Senate’s 44 Democrats who tried to filibuster Alito. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Biden — who reneged on an earlier promise to give Alito a vote — were joined by Vermont Independent Senator Jim Jeffords.
But they were badly outnumbered. The Senate overwhelmingly voted 72-25 to proceed with Alito’s nomination.
Four days after Biden did exactly what Democrats are claiming would now constitute an un-American activity by Republicans, the full Senate, with Uncle Joe in the minority, confirmed Alito by 58-42.
Given how egotistical everybody is in Washington you would think people would Google themselves before deciding to make cheap political points. But it seems they instead just rely on faulty memories.