Eric Schmitt: “I would like to address that. If this were a blanket hold, if these weren't indiscriminate, maybe that would be…”

“I would like to address that. If this were a blanket hold, if these weren't indiscriminate, maybe that would be productive, but these are indiscriminate holds. I would offer to this body that not only is the Senate broken through this process and this ruse, the Democrats are broken. By the way, you don't need to filibuster everything. You don't need 60 votes for everything. For goodness' sake, Clarence Thomas--Clarence Thomas--was confirmed to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice with 52 votes. That was a different era. But I will also point to another era. We have not seen an effort like this by the minority party to be obstructionists in 50 years. Not since the Ford administration has it taken this kind of effort for every single nominee. That is brokenness, underlain by the brokenness of their party. I will use a bit of a baseball analogy here. They are swinging at every pitch, every single pitch, and they look ridiculous. This week, it is this. Next week, somebody will be down in El Salvador at an MS-13 prison--a prison down there--dining with an MS-13 gang member who beats his wife. This is who they are. They are also the people now standing up objecting to the confirmation of the Ambassador to the Vatican. Yes, you heard that right--the Ambassador of the Vatican, who could be there for the installation of the Pope. So I don't want to hear anything about how anybody is being reasonable. This is totally unreasonable.”