16 GOP Senators talking to the Supreme Court Nominee

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/29/mitch-mcconnell-just-got-screwed-by-his-own-party-16-gop-senators-defect-on-scotus-blockade/

According to a report from NBC , there are at least 16 Republican senators who have taken Mitch McConnell’s directive to obstruct at even the common courtesy level and tossed it in the garbage where it belongs. Some are Republicans up for re-election in Blue States, like Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire and Mark Kirk from Illinois, who will be the first to openly defy McConnell when he meets with Merrick Tuesday. Others are Republicans from red states who understand that it’s better to allow the process to happen rather than prove to the American people that Republicans are incapable of governing effectively.

Even with the moderates like Susan Collins of Maine and Jerry Moran of Kansas advocating for full hearings, the likelihood that Merrick would actually be confirmed is nearly non-existent, but that’s not keeping GOP strategists from insisting that holding a hearing would seem much less obstructionist and rude. John Kasich, the last establishment candidate left for the GOP, has also said that Merrick Garland, at least, deserves the respect of a hearing. The man was, after all, nominated to fill a seat on the highest court ion the land by the President of the United States.

That’s the problem, though, isn’t it? It’s not that he was nominated, it’s who nominated him. Republicans have become as predictable as they are reprehensible.