Let the filibuster reform pearl-clutching commence

by Joan McCarter

Dana Milbank has the vapors (and a really poor grasp of history and a total lack of perspective).

Let’s start with the title: “The Democrats’ naked power grab.” Because allowing the president to actually fulfill his constitutional duty of populating the government and federal courts is a power grab. Next thing you know he’ll be adopting the Republicans’ blatantly naked falsehood that filling vacancies is “packing the court.”