Sunday, March 20, 2005

Will on the GOP Playing Ugly

Maybe George Will isn't just a sabremetric version of David Brooks. This, from a column on GOP's maneuvering to change the unwritten but crucial rules about filibustering in the Senate: "conservatives would come to rue the injury done to their cause by the rule change and by their reasoning to justify it... So, conservatives, think: The future will bring Democratic presidents and Senate majorities. How would you react were such a majority about to change Senate rules to prevent you from filibustering to block a nominee likely to construe the equal protection clause as creating a constitutional right to same-sex marriage?"

But do the ascendant radicals really imagine that someday the tables will have turned? I doubt it, which will make that eventuality all the sweeter.