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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 14

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Tom Nichols

      Eh, I'm responding to Allah's hypo, which responded to Hugh's hypo. In fact, a huge amount of the anti-Mitch argument (including yours!) has been hypos instead of addressing what actually happened. I'm content to address what actually *has* happened.https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1404489073541124104 …

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      Tom NicholsVerified account @RadioFreeTom
      This is the new mode of argument, apparently. Ignore the things that are actually happening, and then try to create a case for the GOP because of a detailed scenario that might happen five years from now. Call it "preemptive whataboutism." https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1404487677542600710 …
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 14

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Ryan Mayo

      Chuck Schumer leading a blockade of a judicial nomination is not a fictional scenario. It is, in fact, where the filibuster wars started in earnest in 2003. It was done, explicitly, to prevent Republicans from getting the first Hispanic SCOTUS nominee.https://twitter.com/young_maymay/status/1404489303489597440 …

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      Ryan Mayo @young_maymay
      Unlike republicans democrats have filled every Supreme Court vacancy the other side has had…. The right loves to create fictional scenarios to justify their shattering of the country’s norms https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1404487677542600710 …
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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 14

          Meanwhile, in the world of things people actually laid the political groundwork to do at the time: https://www.politico.com/story/2007/07/schumer-to-fight-new-bush-high-court-picks-005146 …pic.twitter.com/WYexE7SqJ6

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        1. Ron‏ @FiredStaffer Jun 14
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Weak sauce

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        2. Political Philosophy Podcast‏ @PolPhilPod Jun 14
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          In that case a compromise was hammed in which democrats promised to use the filibuster only in 'exception circumstances'. Republicans got almost all of the nominees they wanted. Naturally when the roles were reversed they filibustered everything and refused any compromise.

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        2. CoalitionOfTheDecent‏ @oaklandzoo22 Jun 14
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          The bottom line: Bush got to fill the seat. Whatever the rhetoric was.... Bush's nominees got hearings and he got a confirmation to fill the seat. You can't what-about this, Dan. What McConnell did with Scalia's seat was unprecented.

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        3. Chris Jay‏ @ChrisJay00R Jun 14
          Replying to @oaklandzoo22 @baseballcrank

          No he didn't. They nomination of Miguel Estrada did not go through.

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