So invoking the "nuclear option" is an Outrageous Outrage of the Highest Order when used by Republicans to end knee-jerk Democratic filibusters against a litany of Bush nominees.
It's just another tool in the arsenal and oh-by-the-way-last-time-we-checked-isn't-51%-a-majority-so-who-needs-60-anyway when used by Democrats to pass legislation that a healthy 73% of Americans are either against or would just as soon abandon.
h/t: Duane Lester.
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