re: #417 HappyWarrior

You know when the Dems regained the Senate in 1986, they still gave Reagan’s kook Bork a hearing. This is pathetic behavior by your party and I hope to God they lose the Presidency and their Senate majority over it. They’re not standing up to Obama. They’re being childish brats.

The Bork hearings were a classic hatchet job. By making said hearing such, Teddy Kennedy and the Dems accelerated the current trend of high-stakes SCOTUS nominations. The actions of 2016 Republicans is just the logical end point of such a trend: We can’t afford to lose the high court and allowing Obama to replace Scalia would almost certainly be to lose it.