Working the refs

Or, rather, the press. And we know easily our nation's newshounds can be gamed.

Now, let's be frank. There's no intrinsic reason why banning filibusters for judicial nominations should be called the 'nuclear option'. And if Republicans want to start referring to it as the 'judicial act of love' they can do that. But one side in a debate shouldn't be able to order the refs in the game to rewrite the lexicon just because people don't like what's happening. And yet that's just what's happening. Republicans are now making a concerted push at a whole slew of news organizations, trying to convince them to stop using the term in their coverage, on the argument that it's an attack phrase concocted by the Democrats. And it would seem the editors and producers are either too ignorant or too lily-livered not to let them have their way.

Perhaps we can just call ending filibusters 'privatization'.

You'd have thought that the GOP would have learned, after failing to change the terms of the debate over Social Security by changing the term from "privatization" to "personal accounts."

They get so gosh darned silly when they're desperate.

And one of TPM's readers has a great idea. Dems should start referring to "the nuclear option" as "the cry-baby option."