Yeah, Senator I'm-Not-Spartacus-But-I-Pretend-To-Be-Him-For-TV-Cameras childishly believes that him throwing a temper tantrum is somehow grounds for eliminating a well-qualified (just ask the ABA!) nominee from consideration. New Jersey is humiliated.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence