Two words: Merrick Garland

[Roland99]

Oh how things would be different now if it weren’t for #MoscowMitch

It’s like....they knew

[Hekate]

1. If that's because of the folks having a hissy-fit because RBG did not retire: yes indeed

As I said the other day in the same vein: Neil Gorsuch. There was just no way in hell Mitch McConnell was going to let Obama have another judge.

When asked afterward how he'd handle a similar situation during Trump's admin, Moscow Mitch said flat-out, without a trace of shame, that he'd hustle thru a conservative in record time.

Please, God, let RBG hang on.

[gratuitous]

2. It was a bet with house money

If Clinton won, then the Garland nomination would have gone through just as it would have/should have while Obama was president. It cost McConnell nothing to delay, except for some liberal malcontents insisting on a president's constitutional prerogatives. But when the three rail billiards shot successfully drew to the inside straight on the hail mary pass and Trump won, McConnell's intransigence paid off bigly.

[budkin]

4. We are going to be paying for this for a lifetime.

It all worked out perfectly for conservatives.

[lamp_shade]

5. Yep.

[UpInArms]

6. Moscow Mitch

Is Putin’s bitch