They’re just playing the game. No way in hell would they have a vote. Ain’t gonna happen. Read my lips.
But playing the media game and pandering to the base in an election year, is what these guys do for a living. There is absolutely no way these guys will give an Obama Supreme Court nominee a hearing or an up or down vote in the Senate until a new president is elected. If they do, they are bigger fools than the electorate already views them.
The opposition party will call them obstructionists but so what? demoCRAPS to it all the time when it favors their side. Quit worrying about the other side calling you names and do your jobs to "represent" your constituent base. That base doesn't want a lifelong liberal on the court to replace Scalia just so the politicians in the Senate can save face in front of Obama.
20 yrs ago I might have agreed but now, the gope surrendering before even a nomination doesn’t surprise me at all. They are a useless waste of skin.