In a clip titled “Mitch McConnell’s Supreme About Face” from last night’s “Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert criticized the Majority Leader for allegedly flip-flopping on how the Senate should handle SCOTUS nominees in an election year. He’s bitching that McConnell refused to allow a vote on Merrick Garland in 2016 while saying yesterday that the Senate will hopefully hold a vote on whomever Trump nominates for the now-vacant Kennedy seat before the midterms:
If you're on a low carb diet you're in luck, because there ain't no way to sugarcoat this. https://t.co/HzijhzFbG5
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) June 28, 2018
We’re seeing a lot of this revisionist history from the libs. Basically, they’re forgetting that McConnell specifically said that his move in 2016 was because it was a presidential election year, not just a election year. It’s crystal clear, as this transcript shows:
Lots of clever talk that McConnell blocked Garland during an election year, and so now… Approve or not, point was, it a *presidential* election year, and McConnell said so at the time. From Fox News 6/1/16: pic.twitter.com/ctGBD3DyDO
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 27, 2018
And here’s Sen. Chuck Schumer saying the same thing as Colbert:
In 2016, Senate Republicans said that the American people deserve an opportunity to speak on Supreme Court nominees.
Now that Justice Kennedy is retiring and @realDonaldTrump is president, will they silence them? pic.twitter.com/nT0wtgET6O
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 27, 2018
Plus, what Schumer, Colbert, and everyone else are leaving out is that the GOP did allow a vote for Elena Kagan before the 2010 midterms. The Republicans went on to gain 6 seats in the Senate so there would have been every reason to try to hold up the nomination, but they didn’t do it:
1) It’s not a Presidential election.
2) That was the Biden/Schumer standard.
3) Obama’s second SCOTUS pick was confirmed in August of a midterm election year (2010). https://t.co/HuHeEBycMM— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 27, 2018
Sen. Mitch McConnell is making this clear as well, for any lib who will listen:
McConnell, walking off Senate floor, asked if it’s fair to bring up SCOTUS nominee this year given Garland precedent.
“There’s no presidential election this year.”
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) June 27, 2018
But nah. The libs have their narrative and they will run with it.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 28, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 28, 2018
Bottle those, SILLY! Righties have a HEYDAY with blue-check who claims she 'cried in the shower' over SCOTUS https://t.co/cu5uGK4XT1
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 28, 2018
Here are 10 lib tweets from 2013 on the filibuster that are now freaking hilarious https://t.co/cHvJq4ceTv
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 28, 2018
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