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I didn't agree with him in '16, when he set a new precedent, and I don't agree with him in '20, when he appears ready to break that precedent. It looks a lot like situational precedences.
Has your hypocrisy meter come back from the shop? It must be really hard to manufacture standards without one. ==
Stephen Colbert: 'Republican senators have no honor'
Late-night hosts mourn the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the futility of calling out Republican senators’ hypocrisy
But national mourning over Ginsburg’s death was quickly overshadowed by political maneuvering, as the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who in 2016 opposed confirming Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the supreme court during an election year, released a statement just hours after Ginsburg’s death: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” “He couldn’t even wait until the morning,” lamented Colbert. “That’s like a husband rushing to the scene of the accident and going, ‘No, not my wife! Hey, is that EMT single, because I am.’”
“Apparently, since 2016 McConnell has had a change of heart, or whatever squirming bag of scorpions occupies that dark cavity,” Colbert continued. McConnell’s opposition to Garland, citing an upcoming presidential election, occurred nine months before voting. “This time, the election has literally already started – voting has begun in as many as 20 states,” said Colbert. “So for McConnell, ‘not in an election year’ — nuh uh. But in an election? That’s fine.”
McConnell wasn’t the only “flagrant hypocrite”, Colbert added, pointing to comments from the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham in 2016, when he defended McConnell’s refusal to even grant a hearing for Garland: “I want you to use my words against me,” Graham said. “If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say ‘Lindsey Graham says let the next president, whoever it might be, make the nomination, and you can use my words against me.’”
“I’d love to use your words against you, Lindsey,” Colbert retorted, “but they’re clearly empty.”
