Don’t Buy It

The outside conservative legal groups who are the hired gun enforcers of the Senate GOP stonewall against considering any Obama SCOTUS nominee are saying they’re cool with Republican senators meeting with Merrick Garland. They’re even cool with discussions of confirming him in a lame duck session if a Democrats wins the White House in November. I think that’s just putting a good face on things after the fact because this is not in the script they had in mind. The script was an absolute no. The whole point was avoiding getting into the particulars on the nominee. Just no. It’s why Mitch McConnell made his unseemly play almost as soon as Scalia’s death was confirmed to shut it all down before it started.