Come On Mitch, Be Honest.

       Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, is suggesting he's following the 'Biden Rule' which he clearly doesn't understand. Ya see, then Senator Joe Biden was Chairman of the Judiciary committee and stated they shouldn't waste time on the Robert Bork hearings. Yes, he did say that, and if that was all there was to it, McConnell might be right.
       The thing is, though, it didn't stop there. Because Senator Biden's committee did hold those hearings as did the full Senate. Judge Bork was not confirmed, but he was heard. I think we should go back to the old adage of  'don't do as I say, do as I do.' So the Biden Rule and the Bork Rule both agree, President Obama's appointment of Judge Merrick Garland, must receive a fair hearing.
       Now you didn't hear this from me, but there may be more to McConnell's ideological stonewalling than meets the eye. Ya see, the loss of Justice Scalia, a firm, even hard conservative on the supreme Court potentially changes the ideology of the court. Even with a strong centrist, it must feel like a loss to Conservatives. That, and the hated Obama confirming a third Justice to the court is a heart wrenching nightmare to the likes of McConnell.
       How dare, may I say, a human like that hated Obama be allowed to make that third appointment? After all, he's the one Mr. McConnell flatly stated would make sure that that Obama would only serve one term. He then had the nerve to get elected by a plurality of the voters to a second term, he's just too uppity. Never mind that no nominee of any sitting president has ever failed to at least get a hearing before the Senate. But he's been nominated by Obama. Surely that's reason enough not to hold a hearing on Garland. But actions do speak louder than words. Biden did hold hearings on Bork, and rightly so. No matter what Biden may ever have said, his actions speak for themselves.