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.
Senator Rick Santorum wins the prize for the Republicans by being the first Senator in the filibuster debate to run afoul of Godwin’s Law:
What the Democrats are doing is “the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, ‘I’m in Paris. How dare you invade me. How dare you bomb my city? It’s mine.’ This is no more the rule of the senate than it was the rule of the senate before not to filibuster.”
Senator Santorum: I recommend you look up the word “equivalent.”
