Feel free to use this wherever you want.

There is a lot of discussion right now that the Democrats, if they held the WH and Senate, would wait till after the election to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court Justice. Well, we have a test case we can look at to see what they would actually do so we can determine if they are telling the truth. The test case is the passage of the Affordable Care Act back in 2010.

As it came near for the final vote on the ACA, Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts was diagnosed with advanced cancer which removed him from deliberations and voting. After his death Massachusetts held a special election to fill Senator Kennedy’s seat. Scott Brown, a Republican, ran pretty much a single issue campaign, elect me and I will vote against the ACA. He won the race by 5% and was the first Republican Senator elected by Massachusetts in almost 40 years. (And we know that the only reason he was elected was his opposition to the ACA because in 2012, when he ran for re-election, he lost to Senator Warren.)

Did Senator Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, and Speaker Pelosi, follow established precedent and allow the will of the people to be known after they had lost an election? No, they then took legally difficult and highly questionable actions in order to pass the ACA before Senator Brown could be seated to vote against it. It is important to not forget what the Democrats have done in the past when looking at how they say they will act in the future. When the Democrats say they would wait, or that we should wait, remember what they did when they were asked to wait.