McConnell's great distraction: "I wonder what they are trying to hide?”

[kpete]

Interesting NYTimes reader comment on their story, Why is Mitch McConnell Picking this Fight? [why indeed?]

by commenter John Kolacz Lexington KY on February 19:

I thought it was very strange when Mitch McConnell came out with a wild claim that President Obama would not be allowed to fulfill his constitutional duties and appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court. It just seemed very strange to me… I couldn’t understand why they had to jump on it so fast… then I thought “what a great distraction. I wonder what they are trying to hide?” Cibolo Creek is a private ranch, where normal rooms cost $800 a night. Then there’s the private jet that was chartered to fly him there. That flight was around $10,000. Then I read an interview with the owner of the ranch, who said that Scalia was not paying for his room or his flight, but was a guest of someone. This isn’t the first time Scalia has had an all expense paid vacation either. There was the time when Halliburton had an appeal pending with the Supreme Court and Dick Cheney flew Scalia to a ranch on his private jet to go hunting. There’s also the Trip to Scotland to play golf on the historic St Andrews golf course, paid for by another party to a pending appeal before the supreme court. In both cases, Scalia was asked to recuse himself, and in both cases he didn’t see any reason why he would do such a thing. I think that The minute they found Scalia dead, a hasty plan was made where McConnell would throw out such a great distraction that nobody would even think to question who was paying for Scalia’s trip and what they might stand to gain from providing such favors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/opinion/sunday/why-is-mitch-mcconnell-picking-this-fight.html?smid=pl-share&mtrref=undefined&gwh=B4FD1CAF7E1D0008168C05891B2243D2&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

[COLGATE4]

1. Given Scalia's record for accepting things of value

from persons having business before the Court this strikes me as not only possible but probably accurate.

[2naSalit]

2. And there's probably a lot more to this

than one could easily speculate... maybe.

[PearliePoo2]

3. kpete...you always post the best stuff!

What an interesting question! Rocks need to be lifted and layers peeled away to expose this guy for who he was.
Darn it, I can't read the article because I'm not a subscriber to the nytimes and I've already read my allotted free articles for the month.

[Octafish]

4. Like a ''thank you.''

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Bribe

He died while taking a bribe. But that was a very common thing for Scalia, he took bribes to rule on cases the way he was told to. He as a disgrace to the bench.

[imanamerican63]

6. I was wondering what the reason behind their stalling, but now I see some it, but there is still are

some other reasons that have not been mentioned. They want to control everything from the judges to the guy on the street!