"Naked Power Grab"

Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa called today’s change in the filibuster rule on judicial and administrative appointments a “naked power grab.”

Here’s what’s a naked power grab.  When a Democratic President, with a Democratic Senate, and a House in which Democratic candidates received more votes than Republicans cannot get a qualified court appointee approved, that is a naked power grab on the part of the minority party.  

I’ve read that this will come back to haunt the Democrats when the Republicans are in power.  If you have been watching the Republican shenanigans over the past few years, do you think for one minute the Republicans would allow a minority of Democrats to block appointments?

Republicans are the party of voter suppression and of gerrymandering.  They are the party that encourages people not to sign up for health care and tells stories about how awful the Affordable Care Act is, ignoring the hundreds of thousands of people who die because they don’t have insurance.  They do not play well with others.

I am so glad the Democrats in the Senate did this.  I just wish they had done it years ago.