Yr Wonkette’s coveted Legislative
Shitmuffin of the Year Award usually just automatically goes to Ted
Cruz, because he is, after all, Ted Cruz. But in 2016, Cruz and a bunch
of the other usual suspects (Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and some other
people, it was so long ago) were either busy campaigning to save America
from Donald Trump, or, after Trump won the R nomination, campaigning to
get Trump elected, so they did even less legislating than usual. And of
course Antonin Scalia went and died,
giving Mitch McConnell the historic opportunity to be the very first
Senate Majority Leader to lead his party in not doing its damned job for
nearly a whole year, because that is the tradition he just made up
while Scalia’s body was still cooling. And what a historic dereliction
of duty it was! Over and over again, we heard that it was the Senate’s
solemn duty to not even consider holding a hearing on Barack
Obama’s nominee to replace Scalia, because, after all, “the American
people” needed the chance to weigh in on who should appoint the next
Justice
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