Billmon: An Emily Litella Moment

During the nuclear showdown earlier this year, do you remember all that talk from conservatives about how the judicial filibuster was a constitutional abomination, a flagrant violation of (small d) democratic principles, a crime against law and nature, and proof positive that the (big D) Democratic Party was the incarnation of living evil?

Well, you can forget about all about that now (except the last part, of course.) From the American Spectator blog, via Bull Moose:

Just spoke with a staffer for a conservative member of the Judiciary Committee whose boss is extremely unhappy about the nomination of Harriet Miers . . . There is now talk among some conservatives about a filibuster of the Miers nomination . . .(emphasis added)