While the Dems continue their 30-hour marathon filibuster of three Dubya judicial nominees (stunt-scheduled by the GOP to draw attention to – gasp – the Dems fulfilling their advise and consent obligation under the Constitution), Nixon counsel John Dean explains the stakes in this fight…and the GOP’s “nuclear option.” Lest anyone forget, the Dems here are filibustering four of 172 Dubya nominations (2%). By contrast, the Republicans blocked over a third of President Clinton’s nominees to the Court of Appeals. As per usual, the hypocrisy of the Right knows no bounds.
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K Dog, just to clarify some of your terminology:
The 30-hour marathon isn’t a Democrat filibuster. It’s a Republican continuous debate. (Not even really a filibuster at all, as it is not a minority seeking to prevent, but a majority seeking to enact.) You know this, of course, as the parenthetical clause makes clear. But it was ambiguous in your wording. As you know, most Democratic senators (and one or two Republican ones) think the whole idea is ridiculous.