This is how it began according to the NYT Ms. Gegonos. Then she piled excuse onto excuse attempting to justify the unjustifiable lack of simple courtesy towards a man she voted for as an Appeals Court Judge just a few months before.

"In February, before Mr. Obama named Judge Garland as his pick, Ms. Murkowski told reporters in Alaska that the nominee should be granted a hearing. Though she emphasized, in a Facebook post the next day, that she opposed Mr. Obama’s making the nomination, Ms. Murkowski had declined to directly address her stance on holding hearings since her comments in February."