Joe Sonka December 16th, 2007

(crossposted at BlueGrassRoots)

Mitch McConnell loves to filibuster popular, bipartisan legislation.

I mean, really loves it. It’s already been well documented that the Senate minority leader is on pace to destroy the all-time record in the number of filibusters.

But let’s just keep in mind how Mitch McConnell felt about filibusters 2 short years ago.

”Senator McConnell always has and continues to fully support the use of what has become known as the ‘constitutional’ option in order to restore the norms and traditions of the Senate with respect to judicial nominations,” (McConnell’s adviser) said.

That, of course, would be the “nuclear option”.

So Mitch goes from eliminating the filibuster, to making a record-breaking number of filibusters using them as often as possible.

No shame.

And do want see just how common the filibuster has become under Mitch McConnell? From the NYT:

In fact, the Senate Republicans are so accustomed to blocking measures that when the Democrats finally agreed last week to their demands on a bill to repair the alternative minimum tax, the Republicans still objected, briefly blocking the version of the bill that they wanted before scrambling to approve it later.

For Mitch & Co., it’s now a knee-jerk reaction.

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