{"id":4117,"date":"2016-02-23T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-23T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:21:46","slug":"gop_senators_invoke_the_biden_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/23\/gop_senators_invoke_the_biden_rules\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senators Invoke the “Biden Rules”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I just saw something on Fox. Let me tell you a little story: Snerdley came in here today. He and I\u2019ve had a back-and-forth over Mitch McConnell, over whether McConnell\u2019s gonna cave on Obama Supreme Court\u2019s\u2019 Supreme Court choice to replace Scalia. And I told Snerdley what I\u2019ve told everybody: “When McConnell first spoke up about this, he said ‘should not,\u2019 ‘Obama should not, and we ‘should not,'” meaning the Senate, “‘confirm anybody, given presidential year.'” And I pointed out: “He did not say ‘would not.\u2019 He said ‘should not.\u2019 That\u2019s Republican establishment wiggle room.”<\/p>\n

And Snerdley, who so desperately wants to believe — like many of you, probably so desperately want to believe — that something will give these people backbone, and it may be the Supreme Court who does it. So desperate. So Snerdley has been constantly singing Mitch McConnell\u2019s praises to me. So he walks in here today: “I gotta tell you, Rush: Mitch is hanging tough out there! He\u2019s hanging tough. He said there aren\u2019t gonna be any hearings.” I said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what did Grassley say?”<\/line><\/p>\n

Snerdley says, “Well, I haven\u2019t heard anything Grassley said. Grassley hasn\u2019t said anything in a while.” Okay, so that\u2019s about a half hour before the program. Well, during the break while I was putting myself back together from my emotional distress listening to Chelsea<\/a>, I saw a little graphic on TV that said that Chuck Grassley has decided to invoke the “Biden Rules,” and there will not be any hearings on a nomination that Obama might put forth. And I said, “Hallelujah!” Now, that\u2019s just today.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking about the establishment, RINO Republicans in many cases. It could change tomorrow. But it\u2019s clever. Grassley actually said he\u2019s invoking the Biden Rules. What are the Biden Rules? Well, it\u2019s very simple. Audio sound bite number six: June 25, 1992, in Washington on the Senate floor. Here\u2019s Senator Biden saying that President George H. W. Bush should not appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: It is my view that if the president goes the way of Presidents Fillmore and [Andrew] Johnson and presses an election-year nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over. It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway — and it is — action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process. Otherwise it seems to me, Mr. President, we will be in deep trouble as an institution.<\/p>\n