Mitch: Vote? You Brettcha!

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doubled down Tuesday on his pledge to hold a vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this week.

“One thing we know for sure: The Senate will vote on Judge Kavanaugh here on this floor, this week,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, while mocking media reports about the nominee’s behavior in high school and college, including a bar fight when he was at Yale.

McConnell, speaking before it emerged that the FBI could wrap up its investigation Wednesday, said Democrats were trying to “move the goalposts” on Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

But Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who demanded the FBI probe last week, appeared to question McConnell’s deadline.

“We’ll see, we’ll see what the FBI turns up. If we find that he was not truthful with the committee, that’s disqualifying,” Flake said.

“The commitment was not to vote on cloture until we see the report. So that’s what was publicly said and agreed to. So we’re here, we don’t have the report yet.”

After McConnell spoke, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knocked him for refusing to even grant a hearing to President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

“Democrats are causing delay? Coming from the same man who delayed the nomination of Merrick Garland for over 300 days without a shrug of his shoulders? Give me a break,” Schumer said.

He said no vote should be scheduled until at least 24 hours after the FBI produces its report.