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I think I had repressed that. Similar to Obamacare being modeled on Mitt Romney's program for Massachusetts. Surely, Republicans would support a plan that one of their own initiated? No. Just No. They have no interest in sharing power.
With the GOP acting in bad faith, no amount of "confronting with the evidence" matters. The only thing that does is charging people with crimes, prosecuting them, and putting them behind bars. At that, we are failing miserably. >

What's that old saying? Something like "Evil triumphs because Merrick Garland does nothing." >

Merrick Garland was the Obama SCOTUS pick that was so non-threatening to the GOP that it was assumed they'd have nothing to complain about. They didn't even hold a hearing. That's what appeasement gets you. Making this massive compromise AG was a monumental mistake. >

Wasn't just an assumption.
When Obama nominated Kagan, the Republican head of the Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch, openly said that Kagan was too liberal, and that if Obama wanted to put a Justice on the Court with Republican votes, Obama would have to nominate someone like Merrick Garland.
So then the next time it was time for Obama to nominate a Justice, he picked the federal judge that the sitting Republican leader of the Judiciary Committee had publicly named as a "no-brainer, consensus nominee."