LOL you are so full of shit. Now you are tying yourself into knots to deny the fact that the Senate never before denied the President the ability to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year, even when the opposition party controlled the Senate. You can't admit it, so now you simply re-phrase the instance where a justice was confirmed by a Sanate of the opposing party as a "bipartisan political deal", to pretend that what the Senate Republicans are doing now is not outrageous and extreme. Of course, all one has to do to debunk your nonsense is to point out the fact that every time the majority party in the Senate does not have a filibuster proof 60 vote majority, there is a "bipartisan political deal" to confirm a justice, silly.