Con Science

 Charles Dickens wrote about redemption. When Ebenezer Scrooge tossed open the blinds and discovered that he had not missed Christmas Day after all, he turned over a new leaf. He was no longer a penny-pinching miser who sought to make life as miserable for others as it was for him. It endures as one of the most magical transformations in literature. 

Do you believe in magic?

Do you believe that Mitch McConnell will have a sudden change of heart, remembering how in his youth he used to say, “This nomination ought to be made by the president we’re in the process of electing this year?" And how  "...this is not about this particular judge. This is about who should make the appointment. We’re in the process of picking the president, and that new president ought to make this appointment, which will affect the Supreme Court maybe for the next quarter of a century.”

Do you believe that Marco Rubio will wake up in a panic remembering how, just four years ago he insisted, “I don’t think we should be moving forward with a nominee in the last year of this president’s term. I would say that even if it was a Republican president?" 

What about Chuck Grassley, who insisted way back when, “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice?"

Or maybe Ted Cruz, before the beard used to say, “It has been eighty years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year?”

Perhaps Lindsey Graham can recall insisting, “I want you to use my words against me. 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 said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,” and in 2018 reiterated, “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election?”

There is no magic. There will be no morning light. Only the dull thud of hypocrisy as it drills into the hearts and minds of America. 

I believe Dickens would have said, "Bah humbug!" 

I don't think I would choose to be that polite.