Vice President Mike Pence is lamenting what he sees as a lack of respect in Democrats’ attempts to block the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Judge Brett Kavanaugh deserves the support of every member of the United States Senate. As I said last week, Democrats in the Senate have gone from ‘advice and consent’ to ‘resist and obstruct,'” Pence complained on Twitter.
“Justice Antonin Scalia was confirmed 98-0 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received support of 96 Senators. If we lived in a more respectful time, Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be overwhelmingly confirmed by the United States Senate,” Pence insisted.
But the Vice President’s short term memory appears to be lacking.
Democrats are still furious that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to even allow a single hearing on Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. McConnell made up a fake “rule,” claiming Obama was a “lame duck” when he nominated the highly-respected jurist in March of 2016. That supposed “lame duck” status, McConnell insisted, allied him to block the nomination outright.
Vice President Pence may have forgotten about that lack of respect, but Americans have not. They blasted him on social media.
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