Everyone seems to have forgotten when the Dems were using the fillibuster to block George Bush's judicial nominees.
Where were today's liberal opponents of the filibuster then? The vice-president, Joe Biden, who today claims he's never seen a time when cloture votes were necessary to pass legislation through the Senate, was voting against cloture. So were Even Bayh, and Tom Harkin and Dick Durbin, all of whom are fans of ending the filibuster today, when it makes passing their legislation more difficult.
Everyone seems to have forgotten when the Dems were using the fillibuster to block George Bush's judicial nominees.
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