The Observation Deck:  The more things change…

All ten Democrats on the committee boycotted the hearing to confirm Scott Pruitt as EPA Director.  One Republican commented this was “unprecedented obstructionism.”  A conservative friend--yes I do have some conservative friends I discuss things with--was outraged and declared to me, “The Republicans have never done that!”  Well, yes they did in 2013 when they boycotted Gina McCarthy’s EPA Director nomination hearings.  All eight Republicans refused to participate causing the White House to declare this was a “historic level of obstructionism.”  So now we not only have “alternate facts” we also have “ignorable facts.”