By the way, as Brandon probably has me on ignore as a result of his petulance, i will point out a few things here. Mr. Obama attempted to filibuster a Bush appointment, but the attempt failed because the Senate, then controlled by the Democrats, voted for cloture. Twenty Democratic senators voted for that motion. That shut down Mr. Obama's attempt at a filibuster. Mr. Biden once stated that a Democrat-controlled Senate should not consider hearing a {a[[u Bush nominee,
if tehre should be a resignation from the Court. There was no vacancy to be filled at the time of Mr. Biden's remarks. But Biden was not the Senate majority leader, nor was Mr. Obama at the time of his attempted (and failed) filibuster.
More than that, talking about what the Democrats have done or would do is a logical fallacy. The
Tu quoque fallacy holds that a moral position is wrong if the person expounding it is being a hypocrite. This is a form of the
argumentum ad hominem fallacy in that it holds that a proposition is false because the person offering the proposition is a hypocrite.
Even if Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden are hypocrites, the validity of their position rests on its own merits, and not whether or not they are hypocrites. It is a moderately clever tactic on the part of Republicans, because it puts their adversaries on the defensive. Democrats should combat this by using a spokesman who merely has not advocated such a tactic in the past. I have too little faith in the majority of the American electorate being able to absorb the logical fallacy being employed here.
