Senator Cruz can probably score some points tonight off this in one sentence:
“Whoever Barack Obama nominates, I will filibuster.”
Obama compiling two short lists
1. Marxists he can nominate to Supreme Court
2. GOP Senators he coerce or shame into voting to confirm. Mark Kirk will be at the top of this list.
If somehow the GOP has the stones to delay this, it is more important to hold the Senate so a Democrat majority can’t vote to confirm the Marxist after they are sworn in but before Obama leaves office.