If I had a penny for every time I’ve written the word “hypocrite” or any derivative thereof I would probably be a nominee for a Trump cabinet position by now. After months of shirking their constitutional responsibilities, Republicans turned to Chuck Grassley to come up with a new excuse for why they could not even hold hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Merrick Garland.
Speaking last week to the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, a leading newspaper in his home state, the senator suggested that holding a confirmation hearing for Garland would not be the fiscally conservative thing to do.
“My staff tells me that’s about a half a million to $750,000 to hire people to maybe work for three or four months to do it,” Grassley told the editorial board, which wrote in May that history won’t remember the senator kindly for blockading Obama’s nominee.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who presided over the confirmation hearing on Tuesday, said he will hand over responsibilities to his colleague, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis at 8 p.m. so he can get to bed by 9 p.m., according to Politico.
I don’t care that Sen. Grassley looks like your grandad—Chuck Grassley, you’re an embarrassment.