From Infidel753:
A specter is haunting this confirmation fight, one that Republicans are struggling mightily to ignore — the specter of Merrick Garland. When McConnell and his gang refused to even consider Garland, they crossed a very fundamental line, denying President Obama the exercise of one of the most important powers of the office with which he had twice been entrusted by the voters. (The claimed need to “wait for the election” was entirely specious — a President is elected to a four-year term and is expected to exercise the full powers of the office during that entire term. Senators who are up for re-election do not refrain from voting during their last year in office on such grounds.) They showed that the Constitution, tradition, and playing by the rules meant nothing to them — that it was all about power at any cost. They showed that they were dead to any sense of shame or honor.
And in doing so, they lost any right to be treated honorably.