The Nuclear Option

Do you recall a few years back when republicans, then in the majority in Congress, had flirted briefly with the idea of a “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominations? Do you also recall the howls of protest from democrats that followed, and the righteous bloviating from the nation’s newspaper editors on how the nuclear option would gut long-established rules of Senate procedure (how conservative!), thereby eliminating sacred legislative checks and balances?

Well, it’s back. But this time the democrats are the ones with their fingers on the button.

And where’s the uproar from the Fourth Estate? cue the crickets…