Comedy masquerades as Comity

One thing I really like about Hugh Hewitt is that he replays excerpts from important speechs, although sometimes he overdoes it. I've heard more than I really wanted about the Old and the New Popes, and enough John Kerry to hold me for life. But today, he played a clip of Chuck Shumer extending a conciliatory hand to the Republicans who might vote not to change the cloture rule, pleading for comity and the "sacred" rule allowing filibusters. The militant threats are gone. Do they really think people won't notice the sudden shift? Last week it was all playing to the Angry Left base, but now it's "Come let us reason together," and compromise.

I'm sure that a lot of Republicans would like to keep that filibuster ace in the hole, but it really isn't consistent with the Constitution to allow a few or even 40 Senators to prevent the whole body from giving the president's nominees a vote on the floor. They should just accept that. It's not a "nuclear option." It's what the Constitution calls for.