Obama Calls On GOP To Delay Vote On Ginsburg Successor Until After Election! HaHaHa!

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Democrats are clearly regretting their decision to pull the trigger on the "nuclear option" back in 2013, when Mitch McConnell's fervent opposition to the Obama Administration's agenda pushed Democratic leader Harry Reid's back against the wall. As CBS News explains in much more detail (Reid first invoked the rule only for cabinet posts), the death of the 60-vote threshold for cabinet appointees and federal judges has a long history that stretches back to the George W Bush era.

When Reid first invoked "the nuclear option" - as Bush-era GOP Congressional leader Trent Lott infamously termed it - then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned "you'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think."

However, as the battle over appointing the successor to SCOTUS justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away yesterday at the age of 87 after a yearslong battle with cancer, begins, there's another McConnell quote that we suspect Democrats will try to wield like a cudgel. Just hours after the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016, McConnell announced that - in a departure from decades of precedent - he wouldn't call Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, for a vote, and that the next SCOTUS justice would instead be left to the next president - whomever that might be.

At the time, the GOP primary had already dwindled to between President Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, though most Americans still assumed that Hillary Clinton would win the election that November