Just when you thought you’d already seen it all, an article of mine on even more Democratic hypocrisy was just posted on Pajamas Media, “Biden Also Gave ‘Biden Rule’ Speech in 2005; Reid, Podesta Were All For It.”
ADDENDUM
There Biden, and the New York Times, go again.
The Times article article, “Joe Biden Denounces Republicans Over Refusal to Consider Court Nominee,” begins:
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. accused Senate Republicans on Thursday of abandoning their duties and damaging their country by leaving a Supreme Court seat vacant, forcefully rejecting Republicans’ use of one of his speeches to justify their blockade.
“It’s a plain abdication of the Senate’s solemn constitutional duty,” he said, after weeks of hearing his decades-old remarks used against the Obama administration’s push to confirm Judge Merrick B. Garland for the court. “It’s an abdication, quite frankly, that has never occurred in our history.”
Seeking to dispel the notion that they are taking unprecedented action in refusing to consider a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Republicans have cited the “Biden rule,” drawn from a speech he gave in 1992 in which he urged the president not to name a nominee in an election year.
But the article and Biden’s quoted attempts to refute critics of his past comments refer only to his 1992 speech, not the 2005 speech that was the subject of my article.
