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Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Hardball host Chris Matthews blasted Republican opposition to President Obama nominating a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “...this almost indecent march to rejection here within minutes of the announcement of Judge Scalia's death....it was like a Dickensian scene in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge or somebody’s died – dead and they come rushing in to take the sheets off the bed before he's dead.”
Matthews ranted: “It's not like they're going to reject the nominee. They weren't even going to consider the nominee. That's pretty strong stuff.... I mean, this haste in which this was announced that they were going to reject this, even a consideration of the President's nominee, if there is gonna be a nominee, was awful.”