Dems supported ending ALL filibusters in 1995!

Not just filibusters of judicial nominees, mind you...but all filibusters!

National Review points out the hypocrisy of today's Democrats who gnash their teeth at the possibile loss of their obstruction technique:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D., Conn.) on Wednesday held a press conference to criticize Republican efforts to restore Senate tradition to the judicial confirmation process. But another proposal regarding Senate rules somehow escaped his ire, and has received scant attention despite the New York Times editorial board’s recently saying it would go “even further than the ‘nuclear option’ in eliminating the power of the filibuster.”

That proposal would amend Senate rules to end all filibusters, not just those against judicial nominees. The proposal’s sponsor said that “the filibuster rules are unconstitutional” and was quoted as saying “the filibuster is nothing short of legislative piracy.” He announced his intent to end all filibusters with an unambiguous statement: “We cannot allow the filibuster to bring Congress to a grinding halt. So today I start a drive to do away with a dinosaur — the filibuster rule.”

Despite its support by several senior senators, you haven’t heard about this proposal in the MoveOn.org ads blasting Senate Republicans. And you probably haven’t heard about it from Senate Democrats who now give their full-throated support to filibusters against President Bush’s nominees. Why? Because the proposal wasn’t offered by Republicans; it was introduced in 1995 by senior Democrats, including Sens. Lieberman and Tom Harkin (D., Iowa). When it came to a vote, 19 Democrats, including leading blue-state senators such as Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, supported the measure.

Unlike the attempts by Democrats to end all filibusters, the effort by Senate Republicans is limited to the judicial confirmation process. As Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Tuesday: “If I must act to bring fairness back to the judicial nomination process, I will not act in any way to impact the rights of colleagues when it comes to legislation.”

My, how time flies when you're always John Kerry-ing your next position! Alas for the Dems, though, while the MSM continues to underreport on issues like that, more and more people are finding this information out elsewhere...like here! OK, delusions of grandeur aside, the point is that the MSM may hide this, but other places won't.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said recently that the current attempt to restore Senate rules on judicial nominations would turn the Senate into a “banana republic.” Given their attempts to end all filibusters in the past, at least 19 Democrats should take issue with that assertion.

A banana republic? For a twice-elected president and a Congress controlled by the president's part for the last decade to actually pick judges with majority support is a banana republic? Yet these people think that Cuba and Venezuela and Zimbabwe are models of democracy (despite clear vote fraud), but over here, we're just a banana republic.

No wonder these bastards keep losing elections!