I bet Merrick Garland will join SCOTUS

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@running_coach

Except it was debated and voted on.

But Bricker has made clear, elsewhere on this board, that he considers voting down a nominee to be effectively the same as failing to vote at all.

@Bricker

I don’t agree there’s a huge distinction between failing to vote, and voting down – primarily political cowardice in the present situation stemming from a worry that the vote will suceed and a worry that a negative vote will be campaign fodder for the next opponent each such senator faces. But ultimately, both side do it, and both times it’s wrong. I say this now, and I’ll say it when a GOP president is blocked. But the difference is that when I say it then, I’ll be accused of being a mindless partisan. The motives that animated THIS post will be forgotten, or simply “forgotten.”

Of course, his convenient dismissal of the very clear distinction between voting and voting down allows him to don the hairshirt of the unfairly put-upon reasonable man, who is constantly misunderstood in his determined efforts to be completely fair and balanced.