.MaddowBlog: There's regular ol' hypocrisy and then there's Mitch-McConnell-talks-about-the-Supreme-Court hypocrisy.
“When liberals fail to convince 218 House members and 60 senators of a position, they want to cross the street and try to persuade five lawyers instead. They want judges going beyond the text, roaming through policy questions and moral judgments. This is a huge difference [between the parties].”
For those unfamiliar with Capitol Hill geography, when lawmakers refer to “crossing the street,” they’re generally talking about the U.S. Supreme Court, which is literally on the other side of 1st Street, just to the east of the U.S. Capitol. With this in mind, McConnell made the case yesterday that the problem with the left and its approach to the judiciary is that liberals see the justices as super-legislators: If Democrats can’t get what they want through Congress’ legislative process, those rascals simply look a block to the east and pursue those same goals by trying to persuade likeminded justices.For example, congressional Republicans said they wanted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Congressional Republicans also wanted to gut the Voting Rights Act. When they failed to convince 218 House members and 60 senators of their position, GOP lawmakers crossed the street and persuaded five justices to roam through policy questions and give Republicans what they wanted.— also wanted to undo the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act .
In other words, McConnell is accusing his political opponents of doing exactly what he and his party have repeatedly done.
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