Comes around, goes around

Democrats used their weekly radio address on Saturday to complain that Senate Republicans were blocking their initiatives in the upper chamber.

"Sadly, Republicans in Washington are determined to make this a 'no-can-do' Congress," Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said.

This is beyond mildly amusing.

Since 2000, Sen. Durbin has been the Democratic point man in the effort to put the kibosh on many of the president's judicial nominees, ensuring that they never even get a full vote in the Senate.

Sen. "Durbin's filleting of Bush's judicial nominees has been an obscure pleasure enjoyed mainly by Washington liberal activists who monitor the progress of judicial nominations," noted a commentary in The Nation almost three years ago.

That was when Senate Democrats were in the minority and had no qualms about using filibusters and other procedural maneuvers to stymie the opposition.

But now that Sen. Durbin and his colleagues have the upper hand, they whine about minority Republicans using similar tactics to block tax hikes, new spending initiatives and the creation of more big government programs.

Get that man a tissue.