This is such a weird counterfactual. Republicans weren’t thinking about Trump noms in 2013, either.https://twitter.com/davidmdrucker/status/997219843685453826 …
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That’s not at all to say, substantively, that it was the right decision or a smart move.
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...It's just that in this case, it might sting more that there's nothing they can do. Altho as an aside, Trump's nominees have largely been normal, even though he often is not. Any other R might have nominated them.
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It’s not about “largely.” For example, I don’t think Pompeo and Haspel — the two you noted — would have been.
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You don't think they would have been nominated for their respective posts? I disagree.
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As to your larger point, I don’t buy your premise: It wasn’t about a “short sugar high during latter part of Obama tenure.” It was the first year of his second term; it was about governing and judges.
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fair enough.
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Maybe you're right but I think my larger point is being missed. It's not that they would have retained the right to block/shape some Trump noms, but that they would have retained the right to do that w/ whoever the GOP president was....
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Doesn't this also assume that McConnell wouldn't have invoked the same rule change in 2017 anyway? Which, given his willingness to break precedent with Garland/Gorsuch, seems like a stretch.
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