Once you've decided to vote no, a hearing is pointless. Hearings are not for the nominee, they're for the Senators.https://twitter.com/kkondik/status/1144651071819800576 …
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He wouldn’t have said much of anything. That’s the modern confirmation hearing model. I hate it, but they all do it on both sides.
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As I said, this is off point. If it was the real point, presumably McConnell would’t care. But this smart, nice old guy who adjudicated OK City was not going to get hours of free airtime. Rs didn’t want their utterly bald partisanship exposed. Fine—that’s politics. But we know.
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He would have looked and sounded moderate and thoughtful, if bland—yes, exactly. McConnell did not want the country to see what Hatch had understood to be true. This is obviously politically true, so why deny it?
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The advantage of not having a hearing is that the blame all falls on McConnell (who doesn’t care), rather than Pat Toomey or Mark Kirk.
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