How many times has Republican leadership complained about Democrats being obstructionists? “Doesn't matter who this Republican president nominates,” Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGraham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Trump puts Supreme Court fight at center of Ohio rally The Memo: Dems face balancing act on SCOTUS fight MORE said in January, discussing President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. “It doesn’t matter who any Republican president nominates, really.”

“The left has been rolling out the same, tired playbook for decades,” McConnell continued. “If this continues it will take us more than 11 years to confirm the remaining presidential appointment,” McConnell said in July, discussing the president’s defense secretary pick and other nominees. McConnell was concerned that key positions were not being filled due to Democrats playing politics with Trump’s nominees.

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“Our colleagues need to stop this immediately for the sake of the country,” McConnell would add. For months, he has been bellyaching about the time it has taken to approve presidential personnel.

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, McConnell has criticized Democrats for obstructing nominees and other Republican agenda items, so many times in fact that this column would probably not have enough space to chronicle them all.

So why is Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn John CornynTumultuous court battle upends fight for Senate Texas Democrats roll out first wave of planned digital ads as Election Day nears Calls grow for Biden to expand election map in final sprint MORE obstructing Trump’s nominee for the Office of Budget and Management, Russell Vought? The senator is claiming he is holding up the works over relief money, and to be clear, Cornyn fully admits he’s doing this. Cornyn recently tweeted, “Solely to ensure the next #Harvey aid request from OMB will satisfy Texas's needs IDed by @GovAbbott @TedCruz & me.”

Some might argue that receiving the proper federal aid for Hurricane Harvey is important enough to obstruct a Trump nominee, but one has nothing to do with the other. Furthermore, it would be the height of hypocrisy for Cornyn to make that argument that obstructionism is somehow justified in the case of the Vought nomination. Talking about about Democratic obstruction in February, Cornyn said, “This kind of mindless obstruction is actually irresponsible, if not downright dangerous.”

“The American people expect their senators and Congress to do our jobs and fulfill the duties to those who we represent,” Cornyn added. In June, he tweeted, “Senate Ds threatening obstruction this week. But what's new?” In August, Cornyn said, “We had an election on Nov. 8, but for many of our colleagues, the election remains undecided… That’s how they somehow justify their consistent foot dragging and obstruction when it comes to the president's nominees for important offices, including his Cabinet.”

“It’s time to get over the election,” Cornyn said. “We still have the responsibility to govern. Some people seem to have forgotten that.” Apparently Cornyn, the second most powerful member of the U.S. Senate, forgot he ever said this? Because like McConnell, time after time after time after time after time, Cornyn has slammed Democrats for doing exactly what he is doing right with Vought’s appointment.

The Office of Budget and Management seems like an important one, yes? Does Cornyn “have the responsibility to govern?” Where is OMB Director Mick Mulvaney Mick MulvaneyMick Mulvaney to start hedge fund Fauci says positive White House task force reports don't always match what he hears on the ground Bottom line MORE in all of this? This obstruction language has always been Republican leadership’s go-to excuse for why they can’t get anything done. It’s a ruse. It’s a distraction Republicans don’t mind using themselves when it suits them, including, apparently, against a Republican president’s nominees.

Right now, Cornyn is basically holding up Vought’s nomination for ransom. This is what happens when you have a leaderless ship, which is exactly what the Republican Congress is right now. If McConnell had any clout, this wouldn’t be happening. There are a thousand reasons McConnell must go. This is just the latest one.

If you cannot repeal ObamaCare or pass tax reform or any of the other campaign promises Republicans made, and now you can’t even get a standard Trump appointee through, what good is the GOP at this point? Seriously, what good are Republicans like Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn?

David Bozell is president of For America, a national grassroots organization whose mission is to advance the principles of freedom, prosperity and virtue.