Democrats consider backing off big battle over Trump's Supreme Court pick

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39. Spineless Enablers

I'll never forget this demonstration of Republican decorum.
You don't shake hands with someone who has slapped your face.

"The committee is chaired by the legendary Republican monster James Sensenbrenner Jr. Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.
"He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room.

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