Senator Mitch McConnell’s (R – KY) decision to kill the filibuster on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States caused a severe case of cognitive dissonance amongst the Left. Various Democratic Senators from Ben Cardin (D – MD) and Jeff Merkley (D – OR) expressed remorse over the Republicans’ use of the nuclear option while they had no complaints when former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the same stunt in 2013.
However, that pales to what Sally “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” Kohn tweeted earlier this afternoon.
Are we really surprised that after Democrats DIDN’T use #NuclearOption, Republicans DID?
Perpetual high-road/low-road distinction.
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) April 6, 2017
Talk about revisionist history of the highest order. Four years ago, Kohn praised the Democrats for going nuclear!
On why I’m glad the Democrats went nuclear — my latest column for @CNN: https://t.co/C8ArRpV2jJ
— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) November 22, 2013
Here is an excerpt from her article in CNN:
The Democratic Party’s vote Thursday for the “nuclear option” was a move to deprive the minority party in the Senate of a procedure it has abused to block President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees and other appointees. Before, a single Republican could unilaterally and without any reason block a nominee from receiving a simple up-and-down vote on the Senate floor.
Either Sally Kohn is deliberately acting like a hack or she is such a moron that she cannot even remember her own words when the Democrats pulled the same stunt as the Republicans did. Neither of those possibilities are good for the same woman who perpetuated a false narrative about Mike Brown in Ferguson.