While Republicans spent the last several months threatening to filibuster the Democrats’ health care reform bill in the Senate, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrambled to secure 60 votes — only to have the whole fragile arrangement blow up when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts senate election last week — we kept hearing that the relatively recent rise in filibuster threats was a bipartisan phenomenon. Both parties are guilty of this when they’re in the minority, we heard.
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