Favorite Schumerism of the week.

On the floor of the United States Senate yesterday, Senator Charles Schumer said the following:

“I certainly agree with the Majority Leader's point. The Senate is not a co-nominator, and it's the President who has to do the nominating.”

There ya go. Finally, I think he understands that it is not the Senate's role to dictate to the President of the United States who he should nominate. At the same time, however, Harry Reid has been running around demanding to see lists of names that the President is considering BEFORE the President makes the nomination. Reid apparently hasn't gotten the message that co-nominations and even consultation is NOWHERE in the Constitution.

Not that that has stopped them before.

Anyways, right after this admission by Schumer, he suggests that the President ought to go on a retreat with the Senators. A retreat.

I can see them now. At Camp David, around a campfire, roasting marshmallows and while munching s'mores, coming up with a list that everyone likes.

This President and his staff have called darned near every Senator on the Hill and asked for their opinion on the SCOTUS nomination. That is called "Consultation."

Nowhere in the Constitution.

But that hasn't stopped the Left from perverting the confirmation process before. The process is pretty simple. The Presdient "shall nominate" and the Senate shall give its "advise and consent." Then, presumably, there is an up or down vote.

The Left has created an entirely new process: whine, carp, complain and moan; then maybe let the President nominate someone; pitch a fit that the name isn't from their list of "acceptable nominees" who are "consensus, middle of the road, moderate" candidates; delay, deny, destroy the nominee's reputation, shred every decision, opinion, article or speck of hearsay; then use every procedural delaying tactic at their disponsal to deny an up or down vote.

So to hear Schumer say that the Senate DOESN'T have the right to "co-nominate" is a major step considering what he has turned this process into thanks to his insistence on using an ideological litmus test. (Never heard someone use the word "mainstream" more often in almost any conversation on this topic in my life.)

It's gonna be a long, hot summer here inside the Beltway, folks.