Democrats Hate Being Held to Their Own Standards: Committee Assignments Edition, by Guy Benson

When Democrats attempted to filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to fill that seat, I urged Republicans to enact the Harry Reid standard and change the Senate rules to confirm Gorsuch.  They did so, thus fulfilling McConnell’s famous prophesy that his colleagues across the aisle would come to rue the day they’d nuked the filibuster on executive and judicial nominations, for short-term partisan gain (eliminating a tool of the minority they’d abused for years while it benefited them).  In Washington, no one squeals louder than a Democrat held to his or her own standards.  A few Democrats mumbled about ‘regrets’ after their GOP colleagues pressed the Reid Rule button, but nearly all Senate Democrats now favor doubling down even further by jettisoning the legislative filibuster, which they’ve called a racist vestige, even as they’ve repeatedly used it themselves.  Expect some of them to change their tune if and when they lose the Senate majority in 2024.  They never fully learn, which is why the teachable moments need to be clear and painful for them.