You mean god damn the Democrats for doing absolutely nothing regarding the Garland nomination? Look how many bullshit practices the GOP use to get their shit done. Reconciliation, riders, changing rules of congress. What the hell did the Democrats do to attempt to enforce a constitutionally mandated directive of the executive office? Absolutely nothing.
The GOP is gonna stall every time and the Democrats are going to do nothing but complain. Whereas when the Democrats try to stall the GOP they use ways to actually get their shit done. The Democratic Party couldn't even get a public option when they controlled the executive and had votes for cloture. They are useless. All the time we hear about "you can't do anything in the Senate without 60 votes". Well guess what, the Republicans only have 51 and they are getting a hell of a lot of their agenda done. So what is it with the Democrats? Sheer incompetence?
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I mean, you are technically correct but for the wrong reason about Democrat 's being unable to do anything. Harry Reid in 2013 was the former Democratic majority leader of the senate. Deciding he wanted to expedite the process of nominating judges, he and his party abolished the rule of needing 60 votes to approve all federals judges with the exception of the Supreme Court. This heavily angered Republicans in a climate that was already drifting towards being polarized. After President Trump won, Mitch McConnell then removed the constraint for the Supreme Court to need 60 votes approval to get Gorsuch in since Reid set the precedent.
In this case it was democratic opportunism and losing the senate for four consecutive years (likely six after November) that allowed Republicans to reach this position. It's also important to keep in mind that Kennedy would likely not have retired if Republicans did not have control of the Senate. Just as Ginsburg will leave her seat under the Trump admin when hell freezes over. So while it as not sheer incompetence, it was definitely a lack of foresight.