After Monday’s White House press briefing, CNN Newsroom host Brooke Baldwin and most of her panelists chided the “partisanship” of the GOP-led U.S. Senate ahead of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation vote and invoking of the nuclear option, whining that the divisiveness “has never been worse.”

Baldwin and her guests were not smart enough, of course, to mention how they should be attacking Harry Reid for his 2013 changes to other presidential nominations to the federal bench, but that would also require telling the truth.

While her producers fumbled to turn around clips of Spicer discussing Gorsuch, Baldwin fretted to correspondent Brianna Keilar: “[I]n terms of partisanship, you know as you thought Washington was pretty bad, it seems to me with the issue of the filibuster and totally changing Senate rules, it has never been worse.”

Keilar eventually broke down and joined Baldwin, but her first set of comments pointed out how plenty of Republicans went along with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan even though it was clear they’d be liberal jurists.

However, Keilar flipped after the Spicer clip was aired and parroted the Democratic arguments:

This is supposed to be the more level-headed chamber and the House is historically a little more raucous....I think you’ve heard a lot of people concerned about this, that when you do go towards this nuclear option, that you could be taking away that very important characteristic of the Senate....But to that point, I think in this polarized time, it's easy to forget that, yes, you used to have people cross the aisle to vote for someone, but Brooke, Democrats are so mad. One, they really have no reason to get behind anything of Donald Trump's because he's so unpopular with their base and they’re ticked off about Merrick Garland. That Antonin Scalia died and that’s who President Obama had a pick for, that they were not able to proceed in any way and that Republicans wouldn't go along with anything.

The only guest that wasn’t interested in helping Democrats was former GOP Senator Rick Santorum, who correctly outlined the Biden rule and noted that he “opposed certain judges in the past, I don't recall ever voting against cloture, allowing the vote to come forward.”

The liberal Baldwin prefaced the above rebuttal from Santorum by suggesting Democrats are justified to filibuster Gorsuch because Republicans would do the same if the roles were reversed:

Yeah, Senator McConnell of the times said no way and I'm curious, Senator Santorum, let me ask you this question because if the roles were reversed, if we were living the other way around where you had a Democratic President and you had a, you know, majority in the Senate and you had Republicans, I mean, your party would be just as mad as Democrats are right now if the roles were reversed. Am I right?

“I’ve voted for a lot of judges and that I didn't agree with, but I voted for them because they were qualified....In the case of this was President Clinton, I voted for those judges and...what the Democrats are involved in right now is appealing to their base, trying to stand up to Donald Trump. But in the end, they are throwing out a very important tool...that will no longer be in place to make sure that if there really are judges who aren’t qualified,” warned Santorum.

Just as Santorum attempted to introduce some balance, liberal talk show host Bill Press moaned about the Biden rule not being anywhere in the Constitution and thus it’s not true.

Before changing topics, CNN political reporter Maever Reston dutifully executed the liberal point of view without assigning any blame to Democrats or Harry Reid:

[S]o, it's going to be interesting to see what kind of pressure the President puts on these members this week saying that the nuclear option is potentially, you know, it’s really not a good idea for the Senate given the traditions there and when it actually gets to the floor to see whether Democrats will carry it all the way through. I do know that those Democrats are hearing loud and clear from the folks in their districts saying, you know, vote this guy down and right now, it’s — you know — the risk for the Democrats is being the party of no. So there's a lot going on here in the optics.

Here’s the relevant portions of the transcript from April 3's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin: