Ethics

Exchanging Scripts. Again.

By Ed Brayton

Yet another example of how the two parties exchange scripts depending on who is in control of Congress and the White House. When the other party is in charge, the minority party does whatever it can to gum up the works and prevent them from achieving their agenda; when that minority party becomes the majority party, they are outraged -- outraged -- by the behavior of their opponents in trying to stop their agenda. And vice versa, of course.

ThinkProgress documents this phenomenon with Sen. Judd Gregg, who was beside himself about how those evil Democrats were obstructing the Republican agenda with filibusters and procedural motions - you know, like Gregg and the Republicans are doing right now to the Democrats. Here's Gregg in 2006, when Republicans controlled the Senate:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).