"... the Kansas senator’s call for allowing the confirmation process to play out suggests that Democrats’ messaging on the issue — they’re blanketing social media with the hashtag #DoYourJob — is working."

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COMMENTS: 
*  “Jerry Moran needs to understand one simple fact: Stopping Obama’s agenda is his job..." tells us everything we need to know about the Senate GOP leadership's concerns with making America better.  They have bought into Trump's message and are making America grate again. (no typo) wink emoticon
*  “I can’t imagine the president has or will nominate somebody that meets my criteria"  Someone that is for the american people is against your criteria.
   *  His criteria is someone who isn't nominated by a black man.
*  Here is my guess as to what will happen.  Garland will be stalled until September or so. When the republicans realize they have no shot at the presidency (which they already should realize) they will not give Clinton the chance to nominate a more liberal judge after the election. The Senate will give Garland a vote and nominate him to seat a more moderate justice.  Maybe I'm in la la land, but that is my guess.
*  Well, McConnell won't even consider a candidate who isn't to the NRA's liking. He said so himself a few days ago. That means people like Wayne LaPierre and Ted Nugent have veto power over the republican Senate.
*   The ONLY criteria for nominees, as described by the Founding Fathers, is that they be QUALIFIED. President Obama has yet to nominate an unqualified person. Repubs are betraying their oath to support and defend the Constitution.
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Conservative GOP Senator Says Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Deserves A Hearing

When you’ve lost even Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran ...

By Jennifer Bendery, March 24, 2016

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) said Thursday that he thinks President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee should get a hearing — the latest crack in GOP leaders’ messaging about punting the issue to 2017.

“I can’t imagine the president has or will nominate somebody that meets my criteria, but I have my job to do,” Moran told a local newspaper in Kansas. “I think the process ought to go forward.”

Moran is the third Republican senator to advocate hearings for Merrick Garland, who Obama has nominated to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Antonin Scalia. Moderate Sens. Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Susan Collins (Maine) have also advocated that the Senate move forward.

It’s no coincidence that Moran and Kirk are both up for re-election this year. The ongoing Supreme Court fight puts them in the awkward position of wanting to stay in line with GOP leaders while not looking obstructionist back home.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he won’t allow Garland a Senate hearing or a vote because Obama is in his final year in office, which he says renders Obama a lame duck. McConnell’s hope is that a Republican ends up in the White House next year and picks someone more to the party’s liking for the powerful court seat.

Weirdly, that means McConnell is willing to block Obama’s moderate Supreme Court pick to gamble with the possibility of a President Donald Trump picking a wild card nominee or a President Hillary Clinton picking someone more liberal than Garland.

Moran’s support for giving Garland a hearing is notable, given his conservative credentials and his experience as former chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The conservative group Americans for Limited Government was quick to criticize him for “caving” on the issue.

“This is an outright betrayal of the very GOP Senate majority which Moran successfully led the fight to achieve,” said Rick Manning, the group’s president. “Jerry Moran needs to understand one simple fact: Stopping Obama’s agenda is his job, and pandering to the hard left, which demands that he kowtow to their whims, is hopefully a misquote rather than his considered position.”

But the Kansas senator’s call for allowing the confirmation process to play out suggests that Democrats’ messaging on the issue — they’re blanketing social media with the hashtag #DoYourJob — is working. In his Thursday interview, Moran said while he may never vote for an Obama court nominee, he doesn’t like the idea of doing nothing about the Supreme Court vacancy.

“I’ve never shown up to a job before saying we’re not going to work,” he said.

Collins, who will meet with Garland when the Senate is back in session in early April, said Wednesday that she hopes Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who chairs the Judiciary Committee, will reconsider his refusal to act and will hold hearings for Garland.

“I hope that as time goes on, and as people sit down with Judge Garland and talk to him one on one, that perhaps there will be a shift in the position of the chairman of the Judiciary Committee,” Collins said on Maine public radio.
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