Thursday, May 19, 2005
Trading Places
Ed Brayton has hit the nail on the head:
But they’ve exchanged scripts now, reading the same words they feigned such outrage at a few years ago. And the followers of both parties lap it up without question, their short memories and partisanship-addled brains shrugging off the cognitive dissonance.
Ending filibusters was a bad idea in 1995 when 19 Democrats supported it, and it’s a bad idea in 2005 when 49-51 Republicans support it.
