Monday, May 18, 2009

McConnell's hypocrisy on full display

This weekend Mitch McConnell performed a complete flip-flop on the subject of filibustering judicial nominees. McConnell was asked to defend a past statement of his:

...back in 2005, when Democrats were blocking President Bush’s nominees, you were prepared to impose the nuclear option which would block filibusters, and I want to put up what you said so eloquently at the time. "Regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full debate, deserve a simple up-or-down vote." So if filibusters were wrong under President Bush, shouldn't they be wrong under President Obama?

Easy enough question, right? Somehow Mitch is unable to give a straight answer:



Typical Republican hypocrisy.