So it would appear, anyway, judging from the number of Republicans who have suggested that President Obama should not nominate anyone to replace the newly-deceased Justice Scalia. It’s startling, really. We have Senator Grassley suggesting

“it’s been standard practice over the last nearly 80 years that Supreme Court nominees are not nominated and confirmed during a presidential election year,”

conveniently forgetting that it was done 28 years ago in 1988 and Grassley voted for that nominee (Anthony Kennedy). We have Senator McConnell saying

“this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

The Senator seems to forget that he also voted for Justice Kennedy in 1988 when President Reagan had fewer than nine months left in his term.

This is representative:

I have news for you Senators. We the people made our choice in 2012 when we re-elected President Obama for a second term by a 51-47% margin. We elected him for a full four-year term, not for “four years unless there’s a Supreme Court vacancy in the last one.”

It’s amazing what a difference the President’s party makes when he’s in his last term, isn’t it?

Hypocritical smarmy worms, all of them.