The Specter of Reason
Poor Arlen Specter. Nobody really likes him. He's too liberal for conservatives and too conservative for liberals. But, like him or not, he has a point about a possible Republican move to change the Senate rules to block procedural hurdles against judicial nominees.
Specter said if fellow Republicans invoke the "nuclear option" by changing the Senate's rules to ban procedural hurdles against the nominees, Democrats could as promised retaliate with other moves of their own to "screw things up."
I don't think that Democrats could do that. I think they would do that. Just like the Republicans would if the tables were turned. But putting all that aside, it's a bad, short-sighted idea for a majority party to change rules to suit themselves. No party will be the majority party forever, and those things will always come back to haunt you.
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Yea, verily. I was already miffed at the GOP's sudden interest in ethics rules, which seemed to be a back-door attempt to save Tom DeLay's keister; the proposed revision in Senate procedures is similarly annoying. For a party that claims to be on the high road, they certainly know a lot of questionable shortcuts.
Posted by: CGHill | February 24, 2005 10:41 PM