In her New York Times op ed, the columnist Michelle Goldberg accused Republicans of bad faith. She mocked Republicans for being shocked at Democrat plans to play constitutional hardball by packing the Supreme Court. She says constitutional hardball is how Republicans play, so they have no right to complain. Now, in her mind, Democrats are victims President Obama's lower court
nominees in Merrick Garland, they were blocked. She says that Democrats are champions of equality, while Republicans are a bunch of racists who have opposed pro civil rights judges since reconstruction. Let's talk about equality. The Republican Party was born to counter Democrats. They were the party of slave owners the KKK. If it weren't for Republicans, the civil rights legislation of the sixties would not have passed. Democrats were blocking it. Now,
let's talk about hardball history. Judge bork he was smeared. He was borked by Ted Kennedy. Justice Thomas smeared by Joe Biden's Judiciary Committee. Justice Alito smeared. Justice Kavanovis objected to the most despicable smear campaign judicial history. Republicans have never played that kind of hardball, not with Justice Soto, mayor Justice Kagan, or even their liberal icon Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg,
no matter how far left their nominees are. And no, we're not shocked when Democrats play hardball and descend into the sewer. That's where you have to go to meet him. We expected