Another Republican mistake

Of course it should surprise no one that the Senate Republicans (both the leadership and the rank-and-file) screwed up in the matter of nominating a replacement for our dear departed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  They should not have announced their belief that President B.O. should leave the nomination to his successor, whoever that may be.  Truth be told, they have no legal or Constitutional footing to make such a demand.  Of course Mullah Obama can nominate someone.  That doesn't mean that a Republican Senate is under ANY obligation to approve the nominee. They are under no obligation to treat the nominee with any more courtesy than Robert Bork and Charles Pickering received from the Democrats.

What the Republicans should have said was nothing.  This of course is a lost art these days, so an acceptable alternative would have sounded like "We will treat any nominee with the same scrupulous objectivity with which our Democratic colleagues have treated past candidates nominated by Republican presidents."

And we all know what THAT would mean...