[Cboldt]

"The systematic denial of up or down votes on judicial nominees is a new phenomenon. .... In one recent poll, 82 percent said the president's nominees deserve an up or down vote on the Senate floor.."

The other 18% are GOP and DEM Senators, and the President, who acquiesed to the "political reality of not being able to get nominations past the gang of 14" without so much as a wimper.

[syriacus]

How ironic that Kristol,
who insisted that the President's nominees deserve an up or down vote,
is abandoning this principle within 6 months of publishing it.