More on the judical filibusters

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Showdown looms on Senate filibuster

I love how the article exposes fucking McConnell's hypocrisy:

But Sen. Mitch McConnell, the GOP whip, said the nuclear option was the only way to "get back to the way the Senate operated quite comfortably for 214 years prior to the last Congress."

McConnell told "Fox News Sunday" that while judicial filibusters were possible, "it was never done."

In 1968, a Republican filibuster kept Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas from rising to the chief justice position and eventually forced him to resign from the court.

McConnell, R-Kentucky, said he would accept a compromise if it allows all of Bush's nominees to receive a floor vote, "as was the courtesy during the Clinton years."

Republicans held more than 60 Clinton appointees in the Senate Judiciary Committee, preventing those nominations from reaching the Senate floor.

Nevermind letting facts get in the way of Republican rhetoric.