Grassley Reminds Dems of Their History of Blocking Bush Judicial Nominees

“But the other side tends to forget history, and I think history is something we ought to learn from, so let's review how we got here. After the president simultaneously nominated three nominees for the D.C. Circuit that aren't needed, a blatant power -- a political power grab in its own right, what did the Republicans do? Well we did something quite simple. We said that we want to go by the rules that the Democrats set in 2006. We said we'd hold those Democrats to the same standard they established in 2006 when they blocked a nominee of Bush's by the name of Peter Keisler. So let's be clear about why the Democrats are outraged. Democrats are outraged because Republicans actually had the temerity to hold the other political party to a standard that they established, and because we did, because we insisted that we're all bound by the same rules, they came right back and said, ‘Then we'll change the rules.’ The other side has said in effect, we don't want to be held to the standards that we established in 2006. And not only that, but if you don't give us what we want, we're willing to forever change the Senate. And that's what happened today."