Senate Republicans, historic in obstruction, won't take yes for an answer

>>> oklahoma is a deep, deep red state. every sell county in oklahoma voted for mitt romney over barack obama in last year's election, when barack obama clobbered mitt romney in the country. oklahoma has five congressional districts , represented by, forgive the familiaritity here, represented by jim, james, frank, tom and mark wayne. five districts, five republicans , all of them are republicans , all their members of congress. oklahoma , also has two senators, and they, too, are both republicans . when it came time to appoint a new federal appeals court judge to the tenth circuit, which is the circuit that includes oklahoma , senator tom coburn suggested to the white house a man he thought would be good for the job. tom coburn recommended him, the other senator from oklahoma approved with the choice, president obama agreed with the two republican senators from oklahoma and he recommended their chosen judge to be nominated to that court. and then, no. apparently that was really not okay with senate republicans . doing what they want and what they ask for is not okay. and it won't be stood for. the judge, who the republican senators asked for, was nominated in january 2012 , and republicans in the senate filibusters him. they would not allow a vote on his nomination, they wouldn't allow him to be voted on for 263 days. but here is the really great part, when they finally allowed the vote to be taken, the vote on this judge was 93-0. 93-0, there was no objection to him. remember, they picked him. why would they object to him? so if there were no objections to him, why would he have to wait 263 days? no reason, literally no reason. the president's nominee to be defense secretary , former republican secretary chuck hagel was confirmed today, and will be sworn in and take over at that time pentagon. chuck hagel had the majority support, all the republicans in the senate, and the majority. it took this long to get him confirmed because republicans filibustered his nomination. nobody has ever done that before. nobody has ever before used a filibuster to block the confirmation of a cabinet nominee, ever in the history of our country, but they did it to chuck hagel . why? who knows? republicans in the senate pulled the fire alarm on this one, they broke glass in case of emergency. they did something that has never been done before in the history of the republic . and because they did it, there is now precedent for them to filibuster the next nominee. they broke glass for a nominee who in his case had bipartisan support to be confirmed. and the republicans in the senate did it in a way that didn't actually stop the confirmation. so you won nothing. but you did further break the institution where you work. there is an effort already under way to try to cover this up to say republicans did not really filibuster chuck hagel but they didn't really break the precedent here, and so now cabinet nominees are going to be filibustered. john mccain has been pushing that line, but what he has been pushing is not true. republicans in fact broke this rule and broke precedent for nothing, and there is no sign yet that even they know why. just amazing. before we go, one update on our breaking news on the primary election in chicago. that just happened tonight. this is the election to replace jesse jackson jr . in congress after he resigned. the associated press has declared robin kelly the winner of the race tonight. former democratic congresswoman halvorson has conceded. she had an a-rating from the nra and the bloomburg pro-rating pac never let her forget it. now it is