This Gets Coverage?

I just read what is perhaps the most surreal article ever.  It is a report on a push to get president Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court approved during the upcoming lame duck session.

Let's review where we are.  Justice Scalia died about eight months ago.  The Senate majority leader immediately announced that there would be no consideration of any replacement nominee and that the choice would be left to the American people when they voted for president.  Obama, nevertheless, nominated judge Merrick Garland to the post.  The senate ignored the nomination.  Garland did not get a vote or even a hearing.  Finally, the American people selected Donald Trump as president elect.  Further, the voters also kept the senate with a Republican majority.

The idea that the senators will now vote for Garland after refusing to do so for over six months is bizarre.  Indeed, many pundits now say that by refusing to vote for the Supreme Court nominee, the senators handed the election to Trump.  There were a great many voters who said that Supreme Court nominations were key to their vote for president.  There is no way that the senators would, after winning the election, throw away the fruits of that victory.