actually this is very useful.
Demcrcats acuse the acuser of the same "crime".
Demcrats have a very left wing radical world view. The REALITY now is that Republicans have won election after election since 1980. Reid is trying to keep HIS REALITY from shattering.
This is no longer about filibusters or even judges. This is now about whose reality will control. This is about the BASELINE of all future debates.
For democrats it will be starting all debates from a communist/socialist start point. What government regulations can restrict an individual into compliance.
For republicans, if they have the testicular fortitude to want victory, all debates will start from a capitalist/individualistic(not libertarian) start point. Taxes are bad and the military is good and unleash businesses.
Reid's objective is to deny a reality that began with the expulsion of Jimmy Carter.
Reid is desperate to protect the ability of senate democrats to perform "favors", curry favor with government patronage jobs, and basically to show somehow that a democrat in DC is somehow relevant. Reid never got the memo, Kerry lost.
"Demcrcats acuse the acuser ...."
this is the very tactic that Barbara Owen (rest her soul) pointed out as Hillary's strategy in Owen's book on Hillary (can't remember the title).
The tactic is to put the offensive on the defensive by shifting blame. Hillary's strategy which I noticed yesterday, Barbara Boxer had adopted as well. Good students, these dems, learning from Hillary.