Senate Republican's Metamorphosis

Today, the transmutation of Senate Republicans to small brown and red slimy invertebrate animals that slither on their bellies, commonly known as “worms”, is finally complete. They now exist in the highest life form they have ever attained.

The worms on the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously declared they would not hold any hearings on whomever Obama nominates for the Supreme Court Justice to replace Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly on February 13th, because they want to make the nomination and selection of the next Justice a political circus and they are the circus ringleaders (even if they are only worms).

The worms went so far as to write a letter (yes, another letter — I guess their pen pal, the Ayatollah, hasn’t written back to them yet) stating that they will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on January 20, 2017. There was no indication if that restriction would be extended to January 2021, if a Democrat wins the Presidency this November. Of course, if Democrats win the Presidency, it’s a sure bet they will take back the Senate and the worms will be delegated back to the compost pile where they belong.

Now, let’s consider what bad luck the worms have had these past several years and then posit what would happen if another conservative justice would drop dead between now and sometime before the end of this year. Would the worms rescind their officially stated obstructionism and allow Obama to nominate two justices or would they accept the new liberal leaning court and gamble that they will win the White House this November and keep the Senate. A risky gamble on their part, considering it’s only February and there are 8 more months for the worms to perform more circus acts and alienate even more people.