Lindsey Graham gave a particularly unhinged performance in lieu of actually questioning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during last week's hearing, and he wants you to know that he's still angry. Well, maybe not you. It's likelier that he wants Donald Trump to know that he's not done yelling and huffing and furiously listing his dating-profile stats over how unfair Democrats are being.

Graham certainly isn't the only Republican senator who's hoppin' mad that Kavanaugh is being investigated for credible sexual-assault allegations. His fellow member of the Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch, for example, said Democrats were being "underhanded" and attempting to smear Kavanaugh. But the outright gall of Graham's claim is remarkable because it's word-for-word the playbook that his party used to steal a Court seat from Barack Obama's nominee. The difference is that Mitch McConnell made up his mind that Merrick Garland would never have a hearing and then stalled for nearly a year, all while claiming that he was following an imaginary rule established by then senator Joe Biden.

But Senate Republicans have been ready to cast themselves as the poor, majority-holding victims ever since Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. McConnell, perhaps knowing that Democrats would struggle to muster the same sort of barely veiled power grab that comes to him naturally, warned of "unfair" tactics and scrutiny back in July.

Inexplicably, it wasn't just congressional Republicans laying the groundwork for Democrats to accept whoever was nominated to replace Kennedy as docilely as they did Neil Gorsuch. The editorial board for USA Today bizarrely declared that "Delaying Donald Trump's nominee now is as cynical a ploy as it was when Mitch McConnell obstructed Barrack [sic] Obama's."