With cracks showing in the G.O.P. ranks, the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, showed no sign of relenting to pressure from the president and Democrats.
Source: G.O.P. Senators Say Obama Supreme Court Pick Will Be Shunned – The New York Times
What scholars, heroes, and statesmen these people are. They only serve to define further what it means to be a progressive by demonstrating how utterly devolutionary and regressive the alternative can be. You’re looking at it, folks! Try and learn your lessons while you can so we can skip right past this embarrassing and sad chapter in our history.