McConnell to Obama: No hearings, no vote on SCOTUS nominee

I'm not sure this is really news because we kind of knew this anyway, didn't we? There was some question about whether an Obama nominee might be a courtesy hearing, but no way was McConnell going to hold a vote and risk Democrats peeling away the likes of Susan Collins and Mark Kirk and possibly cobbling together 51 votes to confirm the fifth anti-Constitutionalist Justice. Maybe McConnell thought it would help the Republicans manage the matter politically to just make a definitive, final proclamation on the matter. Democrats scream and howl to their media servants, who dutifully report the end of all that is good and decent for a few days, and then . . . hey, it's over. Time to go back to whoever Trump insulted today.