Republicans will pay for this.
Frankly, this back and forth has been going on for some time now.
I think it may have started with Nixon and his resignation that gave the republican party a black eye thus republicans wanted to get even, they wanted to take out their humiliation on the other side, on the democrats.
If not then, then this back and forth certainly started during Reagan and his nominee Robert Bork.
Democrats were successful in derailing Bork as Reagan's US Supreme Court justice and that made Mitch McConnell VERY VERY VERY ANGRY.
McConnell was a member of the senate back then and McConnell never got over Bork's defeat. McConnell blamed democrats and their dirty tactics for forcing Reagan to withdraw Robert Bork. Right then at that very moment Mitch McConnell made the decision to one day get even with democrats no matter how long it took. And that desire for McConnell revenge explains Merrick Garland.
McConnell only pulled that stunt against Garland, which was totally unprecedented and totally unconstitutional, simply because of what democrats had done to Robert Bork and to Ronald Reagan.
Figure into that McConnell hate was the election of Obama.
McConnell was royally pissed off about that democratic win as well.
And McConnell promised from day one that Obama would be a one-term president, which Obama wasn't, but never the less McConnell would continue to hold a grudge and seek revenge at every opportunity...which he has and forever will.
McConnell has no soul.
His entire existence is only to screw with the democrats.
Expect nothing less.
Then.... come 2016 this back and forth returned back to the democrats.
Hillary losing, Trump and Russia having something to do with that loss, and the election of Donald Trump. All that democrats needed to do was to bite their time and wait for their turn at revenge. And once democrats took over the house in 2018 they wasted no time planning the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Again, the back and forth of REVENGE.
So.... house democrats impeach Donald Trump and well, here we are today.
Democrats and republicans going at each others throat, and once again Mitch McConnell not budging one single inch.
We all knew how this would turn out....
Mitch McConnell revenge and getting even for Robert Bork and for Obama and for the Trump impeachment and toss into the mix a little Richard Nixon humiliation.
This is never going to end.
As long as Mitch McConnell is around our entire government will continue to be dysfunctional. For Mitch McConnell it's personal. Very personal. And McConnell doesn't give a damn if he brings the entire US constitution down with him, he will have his revenge.
And at some point in the future, hopefully the near future, the pendulum will swing the other way and democrats will have their chance at revenge.
Hopefully, democrats have the balls.