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Hello, WH57 - fellow Class of Nov '00 alum.

I don’t trust RINOs.
Agreed!

I don’t trust the MSM.
Agreed!

And here's where I apparently disagree with you: I don't trust anything Harry Reid says.

Specifically in this case, I don't trust his assertions starting long ago that he was going to ram through all those nominations.

Keep in mind that he was never certain until after the November blowout, that the time available for him to grab all the things still on his wish list had suddenly been cut from 2+ years to mere weeks.

Certainly I believe he thought he was going to have all his cakes and eat them too, including confirming a large nest of radical 'Rats into lifetime tenures.

But I don't recall Dingy coming back from the early Nov democRat Whupping Recess and saying, "All right girls, we have limited time left and it's critical we prioritize what we can and can't still do, and the Nominations are #1 on the list and so they're the first order of business *TODAY*".

Nope. He was still as confident as ever that he could get it ALL done, and from what I saw, he dawdled on other stuff for WEEKS without lifting a finger to go fetch his jumper cables to clamp to the lifeless nominations that had been dead in the water since last summer.

And I believe the closer we got to the end of the term and nothing had yet moved on the Nominations, he still figured, "There's always time to do everything that I, the Omniscient One, choose to do".

But as his game clock was getting ever closer to midnight, especially by the end of last week, plenty of GOP Senators & Staffers figured that the combination of the dwindling time, plus the number of procedural stalling moves still available to them even withOUT the filibuster option, gave them a fair chance of blocking at least some if not all of those nominations.

But here's the really frustrating part for me: Nobody, not even Harry I think, will ever know for CERTAIN whether Cruz's extra weekend gift would have ultimately made a difference in how many of those nominations would/wouldn't have gone through. And it's the not-knowing part that I hate.

Because every time I see some awful decision by Saldana (thankfully limited to two years at most!), or by the lifetime-tenured Most Honorable Higher Court 'Rat Justices who are getting enthroned this week, I'll think to myself, "Argh! Yet another body blow to justice from one of Barry's & Harry's Little Lifetime Legacies. I wonder if this could have been prevented?"

Bottom Line: None of us will ever know for certain, and that can be both comforting and discomforting, when engaging in hindsight over the years.