The bodies on the fainting couches are stacked three deep over at the Washington Post this morning. [View all]

[WilliamPitt]

Boy o boy, the bodies on the fainting couches are stacked three deep over at the Washington Post this morning.

Dana Milbank: "The Democrats’ naked power grab...they will come to deeply regret what they have done."

Ruth Marcus (and Charles Pierce called this one a mile away): "In filibuster fight, the Democrats go too far...Have senators fully thought this through?"

Etc.

The magic here is that both articles spend 97.4% of their respective column space describing how disastrously screwed up the Senate is because of relentless GOP obstruction...but it is the Democrats who have gone "too far."

Natch.

Hm...let's say the GOP does take back the Senate in 2014. They're not nominating anyone. Let's say they take back the White House in 2016. A GOP White House and a GOP Senate will get the nominees they want anyway.

I'm not seeing the tremendous peril here...but then again, I'm not a big-time hotshot cocktail-circuit DC columnist who thinks everything would be just ducky if only the Democrats played nice.

Oy.

On edit: I expanded on this and turned it into a blog post: http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18332-pitt-fainting-couches-washington-post