I Will Never Forgive Lindsay Graham…

this takes a turn at the end pic.twitter.com/txnBmSsPDp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 4, 2022

(It’s tweets like this that make me realize Aaron hasn’t been around that long. Turn? I’d have been surprised if Lindsay had said anything else.)

Lindsey Graham suggests KBJ would not get thru a GOP-run Senate: "If we get back the Senate and we're in charge of this body, and there's judicial openings, we will talk to our colleagues on the other side. But if we were in charge, she would not have been before this committee."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 4, 2022

...for making Mitt Romney look like a repectable politician.*

Big. https://t.co/F0NcIy8iKL

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 4, 2022

Of course, he did it after Murkowski and Collins, which gives him protective cover.

Murkowski says her support of KBJ to the Supreme Court “also rests on my rejection of the corrosive politicization of the review process for Supreme Court nominees, which, on both sides of the aisle, is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.”

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) April 4, 2022

"Fuck you very much, Lindsay and Mitch."--Love, Lisa. (Is the state that sent her to the Senate really going to send Palin to replace Don Young?)

Re-upping my Romney story over the weekend, which included this comment from early March that made me think he would back Jackson:

“If she is in the mold of, if you will, a center-left Democrat, that’s probably the type of mold I could support.” https://t.co/QY9npHa490

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) April 4, 2022

RINO.

About that Graham statement:

You don’t really need to speculate, the fact that Garland couldn’t get a vote means that opposing party senates just won’t let POTUS fill the bench anymore.

If Dems had the Senate majority in 2020, you think Barrett would have gotten a vote? Be serious.

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) April 4, 2022

Graham was complaining at the Jackson hearings about how Bork was treated. IIRC, Bork was the last nominee to fail to win the Senate vote. I really think the Dems would have voted Barrett down (for much the same reasons as Bork) if they had controlled the Senate. Telling the President “Try again” is one thing. Telling the President “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on” is another.

*To be fair, he said Biden would have to nominate a “more moderate candidate” if the GOP ran the Senate. Still, can’t get Murkowski, Collins, or Romney to vote, or Harris to break the tie, if the Committee won’t hold hearings. So it’s the same result, since implicitly Justice Barrett is “moderate” enough for Graham. So no matter, never mind.