Democrats are working to oust Sen. Chuck Grassley from Capitol Hill using the powerful Judiciary Committee chairman's refusal to hold hearings on any Supreme Court nomination by President Barack Obama as ammunition.
The New York Times reports that Grassley, a six-term Iowa Republican running for a seventh term this year, will now face a potential spoiler in The Hawkeye State with a challenge from Patty Judge, a well-liked Democrat who served as lieutenant governor and state agriculture secretary.
In addition, Grassley is taking a daily pounding from Democratic lawmakers, like Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who has repeatedly slammed him for creating "obstruction and chaos" in Washington, according to The Times.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration — hoping to pick its own moderate or liberal judge to replace the late conservative jurist Antonin Scalia — is said to be creating a bulletproof list of diverse Supreme Court candidates it believes Senate Republicans will not be able to ignore.
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2 comments:
¶ 1.) He's doing the right thing for the American people.
¶ 2.) Not holding hearings and waiting for a new President, IMHO, will assure a 7th win for Grassley no matter how well liked his Dem opponent is.
¶ 3.) No one's listening to 'super-serpent with forked tongue' Harry Reid. I don't even believe within his own party.
¶ 4.) The mere fact that they will appear on a list from Obama is reason enough to disallow any of them.
harry reid and nancy pelosi are the biggest impediments to this country's well being had they decided to compromise with the gop the last two presidential terms we could have moved forward,instead of this party in office running this country down now we have a bunch of clowns from both parties wanting to govern this country and they still don't have a surefire plan to bring this country back to the greatness it once was
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