After Brett Kavanaugh was smeared as a gang rapist, after Feinstein's last-minute machinations, after having to endure lectures from Richard Blumenthal--Richard Blumenthal!--about "integrity," can you begrudge Republicans some celebration over the Kavanaugh confirmation?

Yes--if you're the cast of Morning Joe. Mika, Joe, Meacham, and Barnicle put on their bitter-beer faces this morning. They castigated Republicans for celebrating with brewskis, and ripped Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell for their roles. "A shabby Senate, with a short-sighted, selfish, cynical, Majority Leader who cared more about his political party and his own political ambitions than the country itself," said Joe.

Yes, this is the same Joe that just hectored the media "Your job is not to beat a candidate, your job is to report the news." Check out the mash-up.





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