SCALIA
DIED RECENTLY, THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, AND PRESIDENT OBAMA IS
CONSIDERING WHO TO NOMINATE.
REPUBLICANS SAY THEY WILL BLOCK
EVERYBODY.
PRESIDENT OBAMA THINKS I WILL BE CUTE, MAYBE I
WILL NOMINATE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR BRIAN SANDOVAL FROM
NEVADA.
HE IS PRO-CHOICE.
ON EVERYTHING ELSE HE IS LARGELY
REPUBLICAN, BUT HE AGREES WITH US ON ONE ISSUE.
AND ON GAY
RIGHTS HE SAYS HE WON'T FIGHT ANYMORE ON THAT ISSUE.
WOW, IS
HE NOT MERCIFUL?
OKAY, I THINK THAT IS A PREPOSTEROUS IDEA.
I
KNOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ON HIS SIDE, I AM NOT GUESSING.
LET
ME TELL YOU WHAT THE HILL SAYS --
YOU HAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON YOUR SIDE.
WHY ARE YOU
NOMINATING A REPUBLICAN?
ARE YOU CRAZY?
THEY THINK THEY ARE
PLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHESS.
IF WE NOMINATE A REPUBLICAN,
WHEN THE REPUBLICANS OPPOSE HIM, WHICH THEY DID, THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE WILL SEE HOW UNREASONABLE THEY ARE -- YEAH, YOU ARE
PLAYING PATTY CAKES.
NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THAT.
AT THE
END OF EXPLAINING WHAT IS GOING ON HERE, I WILL EXPLAIN WHAT HE
SHOULD HAVE DONE.
BUT FIRST LET ME GIVE YOU MORE FACTS HERE.
A SENIOR DEMOCRATIC AIDE SAYS --
I THINK YOU ARE WELL ON YOUR WAY TO SCREWING IT UP.
BUT THE
REASON I GIVE YOU THAT QUOTE IS, LOOK HOW WEAK DEMOCRATS ARE.
IT IS COMMON COURTESY -- NO, IS NOT COURTESY.
IT IS A
CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE.
THE PRESIDENT MUST NOMINATE A
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
HE WOULD BE DERELICT IN HIS DUTIES IF HE
DIDN'T.
NO PRESIDENT HAS LEFT THE SUPREME COURT OPEN FOR 10
MONTHS AND DECIDED NOT TO PICK ONE.
OF COURSE HE WILL PICK ONE.
AND IT IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES OF REPUBLICANS TO HOLD
HEARINGS ON IT.
IF THEY DON'T, THEY ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COURTESY.
GET A
BACKBONE.
SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY HAS AN OBNOXIOUS QUOTE HERE.
HE
IS A DEMOCRAT.
HE SAID --
YOU GET IT?
OBVIOUSLY, HILLARY CLINTON IS GOING TO WIN.
AND THEN US CLEVER DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON HAVE DECIDED THAT BY
PICKING A REPUBLICAN FOR THE SUPREME COURT, WE WILL SOMEHOW
CONVINCE THE COUNTRY THAT YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.
OH,
THAT IS SO THREE-DIMENSIONAL.
THAT IS SO SMART.
AND OF COURSE
IT IS NOT GOING TO BE BERNIE SANDERS, DON'T BE RIDICULOUS.
DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON DECIDED IT WILL BE HILLARY CLINTON.
WE
ARE SO SMART.
ON THE OTHER HAND, SPEAKING FOR THE REPUBLICANS AND
MITCH MCCONNELL, DON STEWART SAYS --
WELL, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, DON STEWART.
THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE ALREADY DECIDED THAT.
HIS NAME IS BARACK OBAMA.
THAT WAS
IN THE FALL OF 2012, HE SERVES A FOUR-YEAR TERM.
IN ONE SECOND I
WILL TELL YOU WHAT I WOULD DO TO DON STEWART, BUT I WANT TO GIVE
YOU ONE MORE REPUBLICAN.
CHUCK GRASSLEY, HEAD OF THE JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE, HE DECIDES IF WE SHOULD HAVE HEARINGS ARE NOT.
LONGTIME REPUBLICAN, AND ALSO BY THE WAY IN THE LAST YEAR OF
RONALD REAGAN'S PRESIDENCY VOTED TO CONFIRM A REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.
OF COURSE.
BUT HE SAYS --
DUDE, WHO ASKED YOU ABOUT HISTORY?
THIS GUY IS OBSESSED
WITH HIS LEGACY AS ALL THESE SILLY POLITICIANS ARE, AND HE IS
LIKE, HISTORY?
I DON'T CARE ABOUT IT.
APPARENTLY YOU CARE,
OTHERWISE YOU WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN THAT RANDOM QUOTE.
AND
THEN HE SAYS --
BUT CHUCK, YOU ARE HERE TO DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
YOUR JOB IS
TO HOLD HEARINGS AS HEAD OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, THAT IS
EXACTLY WHAT YOUR JOB IS.
NOW YOU ARE SAYING I WON'T DO MY
JOB.
SO IF I WERE OBAMA I WOULD NOT PLAY PATTYCAKE WITH THESE
GUYS.
WHAT IF I NOMINATE ONE OF YOU GUYS?
PUT THE CUP IN FRONT
OF YOU, RIGHT?
NO, NO.
YOU SHOW STRENGTH.
OKAY, HERE IS A
FOUR-PART THING I WOULD DO.
I WOULD CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE AND
SAY, I'VE GOT NEWS FOR REPUBLICANS.
I WON, YOU LOST.
I
HAVE A SECOND PIECE OF NEWS, MY TERM IS FOUR YEARS.
IT IS IN THE
CONSTITUTION, LOOK IT UP.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK IT UP.
THEN I
WOULD DO A GRAPHIC BEHIND ME IN THE OVAL OFFICE AND I WOULD READ
THE CONSTITUTION THAT EXPLAINS THE PRESIDENT SERVES FOR FOUR
YEARS.
NOT THREE YEARS, FOUR YEARS.
IF YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO
SERVE FOR FOUR YEARS AND YOU DIDN'T WANT ME TO DO ANYTHING IN
MY LAST YEAR, YOU HAD A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, IT WAS CALLED THE
2012 ELECTION.
SORRY, I KICKED YOUR ASS.
NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT
PART IS THIS WASN'T ME VERSUS MITT ROMNEY, THIS WAS THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE MAKING DECISION ON WHICH WAY THEY WOULD LIKE TO
GO.
THEY WERE CLEAR, BECAUSE I ROUTED HIM.
THEY WEREN'T
STUTTERING, THEY WEREN'T UNSURE.
YOU KNOW WHO THEY WANTED TO BE
THEIR LEADER WHO WOULD NOMINATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES?
ME.
YOU
KNOW HOW LONG THEY WANT ME TO DO THAT?
FOUR YEARS.
SO YOU WILL
SIT HERE AND VIOLATE THE CLEAR WISHES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION?
I DON'T THINK SO.
I'M THE
PRESIDENT, AND I WILL NOMINATE WHOEVER I LIKE, AND YOUR JOB IS
TO SIT THERE AND HAVE HEARINGS ABOUT IT.
NOW, FOR THE PRESS, I
NEED YOU TO SAY IT, RIGHT?
I TOLD YOU THAT THESE REPUBLICANS
WERE OBSTRUCTIONISTS.
YOU KEPT CALLING IT EVEN, IT IS NOT EVEN.
THEY HAVE BROKEN A RECORD ON FILIBUSTERS AND HERE THEY ARE,
THEY ARE OBSTRUCTING EVERYTHING IN OUR PATH.
SO I'M NOT HOPING
TO FIGURE OUT THAT IF I PUT SANDOVAL IN AND THEY SAY NO THAT
MAYBE YOU WILL WRITE AN ARTICLE -- NO, IF YOU ARE IN THE
PRESS, I NEED YOU TO DO YOUR JOB.
BE OBJECTIVE.
NOT NEUTRAL,
OBJECTIVE.
WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVE FACTS?
REPUBLICANS SAY
THEY WILL VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION AND NOT HOLD
HEARINGS EVEN THOUGH THAT IS THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY.
IN
FACT, I BELIEVE WE SHOULD START IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS ON EVERY
REPUBLICAN IN THE SENATE.
IF THEY REFUSE TO UPHOLD THEIR OATH
IN OFFICE, WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION.
ONE MORE THING AND
THEN I WILL TELL YOU WHY YOU NEED TO FRAME IT THIS WAY.
IF
I'M THE PRESIDENT, WHO AM I GOING FOR?
SANDOVAL?
BY THE WAY,
HE WITHDREW TODAY FROM CONSIDERATION SAYING HE DOESN'T
WANT TO BE A PAWN IN THESE POLITICS.
HERE IS WHAT I WOULD
HAVE SAID TO REPUBLICANS.
I WILL START WITH ALAN GRAYSON, AND
EVERY TIME YOU SAY NO, I WILL GO TO A MORE LIBERAL PERSON.
BY THE
END, I WILL GET TO BROTHER CORNELL WEST.
GOD HELP YOU IF
YOU LOSE THAT ELECTION.
AND EVERY TIME I WILL COME OUT HERE
AND SAY, THIS IS THE 13TH PERSON I HAVE NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME
COURT.
WHEN ARE THESE GUYS GOING TO DO THEIR JOB?
WHEN ARE THEY
GOING TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION?
TELL ME AGAIN WHO
WON IN 2012?
TELL ME HOW LONG THAT TERM IS?
YOU KNOW WHAT THE
ANSWER IS.
SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR THROAT.
DON'T PLAY PATTYCAKE.
YOU ARE NOT PLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHESS, YOU ARE
PLAYING CHECKERS.
BECAUSE THIS IS ALL IN THE FRAMING.
YOU KNOW
WHAT WORKS IN POLITICS?
STRENGTH.
THE FRAME YOU HAVE
PRESENTED IS, THE REPUBLICANS ARE RIGHT, WE SHOULD PUT A
REPUBLICAN ON THE SUPREME COURT.
REPUBLICANS ARE BLOCKING ME, AND
I WILL REWARD THEM BY PUTTING UP A REPUBLICAN ON THE SUPREME
COURT.
ARE YOU MENTAL?
NO, THE ANSWER IS A LIBERAL, AS THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE DEMAND IT.
YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE PUTTING ON THE SUPREME
COURT?
A LIBERAL.
BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT.
THAT IS NOT A DISPUTE.
IF YOU LIKE, YOU CAN ASK PRESIDENT
ROMNEY.
THAT'S RIGHT, THERE IS NO PRESIDENT ROMNEY BECAUSE I
KICKED HIS ASS.
AND REPUBLICANS, HAVE AT IT, BECAUSE I AM GOING
TO KEEP ON NOMINATING, AND EVERY TIME THEY WILL GET MORE LIBERAL.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
YOU EXUDE STRENGTH.
NOBODY IS PAYING
ATTENTION TO YOUR REINDEER GAMES IN WASHINGTON.
VOTERS DON'T KNOW
WHO SANDOVAL IS.
YOU THINK YOU TRICK REPUBLICANS AND YOU ASK
THE MEDIA TO PRETTY PLEASE COVER HOW THEY WERE OBSTRUCTIONISTS ON
SANDOVAL?
NOBODY KNOWS SANDOVAL.
YOU DO A PRESS CONFERENCE, DO
ONE DAY AFTER DAY, SAYING LET'S GO OVER THIS ONE MORE TIME.
WHO
IS THE PRESIDENT?
RIGHT, ME.
HOW LONG DO I SERVE?
RIGHT, FOUR
YEARS.
WHO GETS TO NOMINATE JUSTICES?
DAMN RIGHT, THE
PRESIDENT.
AND EVERY DAY YOU PULL OUT THE CONSTITUTION AND
YOU PUT IT IN THE FACE OF THE MEDIA.
AND THIS ISN'T "I FEEL
GOOD BECAUSE I'M A TOUGH GUY," THIS IS POLITICS.
THIS IS
ACTUALLY THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHESS.
THEN YOU SAY WE ARE GOING
TO KEEP DOING THIS EVERY DAY UNTIL I SEE POLL NUMBERS IN
PLACES LIKE OHIO AND NEW HAMPSHIRE WHERE THERE ARE CLOSE
SENATE RACES, AND I BET YOU EVERY DAY I DO A PRESS
CONFERENCE AND SAY YOUR REPUBLICAN SENATOR WILL NOT
UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, HIS POLL NUMBERS GO DOWN.
AND YOU
KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HIS POLL NUMBERS GO DOWN IN AN
ELECTION YEAR?
HE BUCKLES.
HE DOESN'T BUCKLE IN OHIO OR
WISCONSIN OR NEW HAMPSHIRE IN ALL THESE CLOSE RACES BECAUSE
YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SANDOVAL IN WASHINGTON.
NOBODY IN
WISCONSIN KNOWS WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT WITH
SANDOVAL.
THEY DO CHANGE IF YOU GET UP THERE EVERY DAY AS THE
PRESIDENT AND SAY, YOU PUT ME HERE.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PUT ME
HERE TO DO A JOB, GOD DAMMIT, I WILL DO THAT JOB.
PEOPLE PAY
ATTENTION TO THAT KIND OF STRENGTH.
THAT MOVES POLL
NUMBERS WHICH MOVES POLITICIANS WHICH THEN GETS A PROGRESSIVE ON
THE SUPREME COURT.
GO AHEAD, KEEP PLAYING YOUR CHECKERS.
YOU
THINK YOU ARE SO CLEVER?
YOU ARE NOT AT ALL CLEVER.
YOUNG TURKS.