This may not be the grandest news in the world but I came across a truly shameful quote from the GOP echo chamber:

Wendy Long, head of the Judicial Confirmation Network, which ironically no longer wants to see judicial conformations, is one of the leading far-right activists on nomination fights. She said yesterday that Republicans should approach nominees with “a presumption that they’re not going to be able to uphold their oath.”

Got that? Republican senators, who argued during Bush’s presidency that failing to confirm judicial nominees tears at the fabric of our democracy, should now reflexively assume that every Obama nominee, including those who haven’t even been named, is incapable of serving on the federal bench.

It still boggles my mind that Republican opinion-makers can say such reckless, irresponsible and fundamentally unserious things without getting much if any serious blowback from the Washington establishment media. Thank goodness we have intrepid bloggers like Steve Benen to ferret out the choicest bits of nonsense for us.