Both parties play a little fast and loose when it comes to the powers of the majority, based entirely on whether they’re in the majority at the time. Indeed, Republicans generally hope we forget the pesky details, but they’re the ones who came up with the “nuclear option” idea in the first place – midway through the Bush/Cheney era, when Democrats blocked votes on far-right nominees and Republicans were swearing up and down that blocking votes on judges tore at the fabric of our constitutional system of government.Then control of the Senate shifted and the parties switched sides. Now Senate control is shifting back and they’re getting ready to switch back. It’s a tiresome game, to be sure, but Republicans ought to feel some embarrassment about this display of political whiplash. They really have spent a year whining incessantly that majority rule on confirmation votes is an abuse that simply cannot be tolerated, two centuries of American governing notwithstanding,. And now we’re just starting to hear their new position: “Who, us? We said what, now?”
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:43:24 +0000
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