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The video below is making its way around the Internet, showing Democrat Senators railing against a plan by Republicans during the Bush Administration to use the “nuclear option” in order to get votes through the Senate with a simple majority rather than the 60 votes needed for items which would be filibustered.

Also, Human Events has many excellent quotes HERE.

As usual, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd are the source of inspiration and amusement…

Biden: “I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don’t make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.”

And Dodd: “I’ve never passed a single bill worth talking about that didn’t have a lead co sponsor that was a Republican. And I don’t know of a single piece of legislation that’s ever been adopted here that didn’t have a Republican and Democrat in the lead. That’s because we need to sit down and work with each other. The rules of this institution have required that. That’s why we exist. Why have a bicameral legislative body? Why have two chambers? What were the framers thinking about 218 years ago? They understood Mr. President that there is a tyranny of the majority.”

It’s worth keeping in mind, however, that hypocrisy is one of the least effective charges against “liberals."  As I’ve written before, conservatives frequently campaign on principles. (Whether or not they govern based on them is another question entirely.)  Liberals, on the other hand, are utilitarians whose actions are judged based on whether they move the ball toward the goal line of socialism, not whether the ball is moved by a play that they previously threw the flag on when the other team tried it.  It’s all about outcome, nothing about principle.  They’ll lie, cheat, and steal.  They’ll say “it’s different this time".  They’ll do absolutely anything to take the next step in the march on the Road to Serfdom.

So even when you catch them in repeated shameless hypocrisy, they don’t care.  And their voting base won’t care either.  It’s just a question of whether the rest of the country does…