Either Senate Republicans have no idea what their co-conservatives are saying and doing, or they are just comfortable with their party’s hypocrisy.

In explaining why he didn’t plan to vote for Kagan, Senator Jeff Sessions said that she lacked judicial restraint, which he described as a potential judge’s most important quality.

He seems to have forgotten to send that memo to his colleague Senator Coburn, who during the hearing begged Kagan to ignore the Constitution, the law and judicial precedent and instead judge based on her opinion of mankind’s natural rights: