90 Miles From Tyranny

Friday, March 18, 2016

Minor Violations Of The Iran Nuclear Treaty...Whats The Big Deal?

Harry Reid's Changing Opinion On Presidential Appointees...

Senate Republicans Plan to Follow Joe Biden’s Advice on the Supreme Court Vacancy

Months before the 1992 presidential election, Joe Biden urged fellow U.S. senators to shut down the nomination process and block President George H.W. Bush’s judicial picks from a confirmation vote.

Today, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, called on the Senate to follow what he dubbed “the Biden Rules.”

The lawmakers should leave Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court empty until a new president nominates a successor, Grassley said.

“It’s the principle, not the person,” Grassley argued, quoting at length from remarks made 24 years ago by Biden when the vice president was a senator from Delaware.

Grassley said the Judiciary Committee should listen to Biden’s reminder “of the Senate’s constitutional authority to provide, or withhold, consent, as the circumstances require.”

In a floor speech June 25, 1992, Sen. Joe Biden, then chairman of the Judiciary Committee, argued that....

There’s a pretty good chance that Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is not the famed Zodiac Killer, as some have theorized (we know that is Bernie Sanders) — but could he be the lead singer of ’80s Christian metal band Stryper?

That’s the theory circulating around social media this week after one Facebook user, author Michael Boulerice, posted a side-by-side photo comparison of the Texas senator and Stryper lead singer Michael Sweet.

The photo comparison quickly went viral, prompting a tongue-in-cheek response from Sweet himself:

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich doubled down on a claim he had made earlier in the day regarding some in the GOP abandoning either of the leading two Republican presidential contenders, Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Gingrich warned that by not falling in line behind Trump or Cruz is effectively supporting Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

“Let’s be honest, if you want to help elect Hillary Clinton, then help elect Hillary Clinton and a radical Supreme Court, but don’t give us any pious baloney that...