Complicated vacuum? Are hyper partisan racists that hard to find?
Hyper partisan Democrats are a dime a dozen. Reid would have no problem pushing through a confirmation in the lame duck session. But any leftwing Democrat who has dreams of someday being nominated for the Supreme Court would probably want to steer clear of having “two years of stonewalling Congress to obstruct investigations into the Obama scandals” as the most prominent item on his or her resume.