Are Democrats Hypocrites?

I remember back in the day diary after diary on the "nuclear option."

Nuclear Option Is Coming

Back in 1998, we learned to our collective dismay that Gerald Ford was right all along: an impeachable offense really is whatever the House says it is.

Similarly, we now find that Senate rules, long thought to have been in continuous operation from Congress to Congress, and to have required a 2/3 vote to amend, are in fact... whatever the Senate says they are.

Or at least, that's the current argument of... conservatives.

But now, isn't this the argument of so-called ... liberals?

The minority has the right to block and filibuster in the Senate. that's the way it's always been, and folks sure weren't whining about this when the issue was judges and the Republicans were screaming for an "up or down" vote.

So why are Democrats and liberals now whining about the Republicans exercising their minority rights? Let them filibuster and pay the price for not doing anything on the war. but it seems more than a little hypocritical for folks to now demand "up or down" votes on the war when just last year when we were in the minority, we were outraged by the GOP's power play on judges. No wonder Congress's ratings suck!