...on the Merrick Garland nomination and the excuses conservatives have come up with for not holding hearings on it. The issues they raise might be examined and settled by a simple conversation -- like, say, in a Congressional hearing! But they won't do it. Jazz Shaw's rant about how hearings don't matter because nominees he doesn't like will lie in them goes right to the heart of the current berserker status of the Republican Party -- normal democratic processes are only for the Elect; everyone else, like Democrats or Iraqis, would just fuck them up.
I notice that, since I wrote this column, John Kasich, who was feinting at reasonableness by announcing himself open to Garland's nomination, has backed off. I don't know why everyone's so worried about Trump -- the rest of them are at least as bad.
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