GOP are about to "blow up" Senate rules to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Grouch... it’s about to get ugly.

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GOP are about to "blow up" Senate rules to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Grouch... it’s about to get ugly.
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To be fair, this rule was under Democratic majority, it's their rule.  GOP is just utilizing it for the same reason Democrats devised it. 

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To slightly paraphrase the article: he has undermined the very idea of objective truth. The worry is that because politics has become so polarised, his supporters just won't listen to the objective truth. 

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Here's the data for the last decade:

I disagree.  The Democrats used a long-existing Senate procedure to change the rules of the Senate in 2013 to allow a simple majority vote for all executive branch nominees and judicial nominees other than the Supreme Court.  They did not create or devise the procedure that allowed the rule change.  Yes, changing the rule was a short-sighted move that probably shouldn't have happened.  However, the Republicans had been blocking so many of Obama's initiatives simply out of partisan spite that it's understandable why the Democrats acted out by changing the rule.  McConnell himself said from Day 1 of Obama's first administration that the GOP would do everything they could to ensure it was a one-term presidency.  Notice no mention there of serving the American people's interests or our country's.

The GOP is now using the same Senate procedure to change the rule for Supreme Court nominees.  Note that this is similar to the rule change that Dems made but with the incredibly important difference that it applies to SCOTUS justices who have lifetime appointments.  Also worth noting is why this is happening.  The GOP blocked even the nomination of Merrick Garland by Obama with 10 months to go in Obama's presidency, again out of partisan spite.  That's unprecedented.  Then Trump gets elected and nominates a guy who is, according to multiple legal scholars, more conservative than Scalia and was suggested to Trump by an ultra-right wing political action group.  And now, the GOP puts on their fake surprise act because more than 40% of the Senate doesn't think Gorsuch is a good choice for America and is also a little pissed off that Obama's right to nominate a justice (who was a moderate, by the way) was stolen.

The good news here is that the GOP Senators, buffoons that they are, will learn nothing from the Democrats' mistake and will certainly use the nuclear option to change the rule, gleefully thinking that they'll never again be in the minority.  And one day the Democrats will have the opportunity to put justices on the Supreme Court who will be so far left they will make Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like Clarence Thomas.  And I will laugh and laugh and laugh.