Why Would That Be?
by digby
On the gasbag shows this morning the Republicans touted their civility and whined about how mean the Democrats are by comparison:
McConnell also said that “Republicans have treated Supreme Court nominees a lot better than the Democrats have.”
“I can’t think of a single Supreme Court nominee by a Democratic president who’s been treated the way Robert Bork was, the way Clarence Thomas was, the way Sam Alito was, who was filibustered by the president, the vice president, the Democratic leader and the … ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. I’ve never filibustered a Supreme Court nomination,” he said.
Could this phenomenon possibly be related to the fact that the Republicans nominate radical wingnut freaks and Democrats nominate middle-of-the-road centrists with no discernible judicial philosophy? That one Party relishes a fight and the other runs from one?
Whatever it is, I think we can rule out that it’s because the Republicans are more cooperative.
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