Vote your conscience, not someone else's politics (Hey, is that EMT single, because I am)

September 2020

“Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died on Friday evening from complications of cancer at 87. Ginsburg led a pioneering life as a lawyer, a judge, and an advocate for gender equality and was known for her tenacity, as only the second woman ever appointed to the supreme court. But national mourning over Ginsburg’s death was quickly overshadowed by political maneuvering, as the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who in 2016 opposed confirming Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the supreme court during an election year, released a statement just hours after Ginsburg’s death saying: ‘President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.’ He couldn’t even wait until the morning. That’s like a husband rushing to the scene of the accident and going, ‘No, not my wife! Hey, is that EMT single, because I am.’” —Stephen Colbert

“Apparently, since 2016 McConnell has had a change of heart, or whatever squirming bag of scorpions occupies that dark cavity. McConnell’s opposition to Garland, citing an upcoming presidential election, occurred nine months before voting. This time, the election has literally already started – voting has begun in as many as 20 states. So for McConnell, ‘not in an election year’ — nuh uh. But in an election? That’s fine.

McConnell wasn’t the only flagrant hypocrite, pointing to comments from the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham in 2016, when he defended McConnell’s refusal to even grant a hearing for Garland saying: ‘I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham says let the next president, whoever it might be, make the nomination, and you can use my words against me.’

I’d love to use your words against you, Lindsey, but they’re clearly empty.” —Stephen Colbert

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