Hypo what?

Let's have a frank-ish discussion about hypocrisy...  (We've all been hypocrites at one point in our lives).

I'm going to throw out a totally hypothetical situation here and I'm curious how you all would score...

So let's say we have a Republican controlled Congress and a Democratic President, and that Democratic president decides to appoint a new justice to the supreme court, we'll just call this person M Garland.  The republican held congress decides that they don't want to do any of their jobs and they don't sit with or talk with this candidate at all.  He languishes for a while and basically fades to oblivion because well that's what happens.

Did you praise said republican congress?  Did you say that they were right to ignore anything from the Democratic president?  Cool... don't worry I already know your answer (you totally praised the shit out of them).

Flash forward a few months to a Republican President (sort of... I don't agree that Reagan would have anything to do with this person, but whatever) who has a Democratic Senate that is enough to stop the president's current candidate for the supreme court.  Would you praise these Democratic members of congress?  Would your answer be the same as it was for the question above?  Oh it's not?  Then congratulations you are a hypocrite!

One month saying Mitch McConnell is a hero because he stood up to Obama's moderate supreme court nominee, and then just a few months later complaining that the Democrats are doing the exact same thing that your beloved republicans just did is pretty much the definition of hypocrisy.  I'm sorry based on the actions of the republican congress during Obama's reign I see absolutely no reason that any democrat should consider anything that the president now says.

And just for fun... the president has already posted paperwork to run for re-election in 2020, so he is technically campaigning... so I think any of his nominees should be treated in the same way that the nominees during Obama's last year were treated.  It's not my fault the president decided to turn the next four years into an election cycle.

I want to wrap this up... I'm tired.  I'm tired of trying to fight people who don't actually pay attention to anything except those sources that only support their rhetoric (see the white house spokesperson's latest statement about how white house aides will only go to news sources that push their agenda... I won't even being to tell you what is wrong with that, if you don't know you are too far gone).

Lastly.  Never again tell me anything about checks and balances.  IF you are paying attention you would start to realize that all of those are starting to go away.  The next time someone tells me not to worry because there are "checks and balances" in place I am going to give them a multi-hour lecture about how they are wrong and understand nothing about the way the government works.