And how am I a hypocrite? The OP is just an accurate observation - a lesson learned.
Dispute it.
Easy, and with facts too.
Democrats are the ones who broke the process in the first place, and if they don't like that the GOP is holding up the process, they're just just reaping what they sowed.
Harry Reid, when he was Senate Majority Leader at the end of the Bush administration, Harry Reid took dramatic action to prevent President Bush from making any appointments whatsoever. Democrats were frustrated by some of Bush's recess appointments, especially John Bolton as U.N. ambassador. But in fairness to Bush, the Democratic Senate's partisan obstruction was completely out of hand. In late 2007, the Harry Reid-led Senate had a backlog of more than 200 appointments that it had failed to act on, including dozens of judges. In order to prevent Bush from filling any of those slots with recess appointments, Reid started holding 30 second "pro-forma" sessions over the holidays so the Senate would technically be in session and the president would be constitutionally prohibited from making recess appointments.
As if this wasn't bad enough, then Barack Obama came into office and tried to to blow up the consensus on how it was possible for Senate to block recess appointments. Despite Republicans not going into session for any more than three days to prevent recess appointments, in 2012 Obama went ahead anyway and made three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, arguing that the 30 second pro forma sessions Democrats had recently embraced were illegitimate now that Republicans were using them. (In an amazing act of hypocrisy, Reid publicly supported Obama's decision to ignore Congress holding pro-forma sessions.)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-d...ction-of-judicial-nominations/article/2001119
The Sad Reality of Harry Reid’s Senate
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Reid's years of obstruction — “filling the tree” to prevent amendments, refusing to take votes, defying calls to pass a budget — that were his defining “contribution” during the Obama years. It eventually cost his party the Senate majority when his members could not explain to voters why they had accomplished so little. Most damaging, his refusal to take a vote with veto-proof support for Menendez-Kirk sanctions against Iran allowed the Obama administration to continue on its road to appeasement.
To this day he continues to obstruct passage of an overwhelmingly positive anti-human-trafficking bill out of deference to the radical pro-abortion lobby, which belatedly discovered language it finds objectionable.
And finally, he used the “nuclear” option to jam through presidential appointments and lower-court judges, setting up a standard that may be reintroduced or expanded (to legislation or to Supreme Court nominees) by subsequent leaders. The result will be a class of appointees who can be excessively partisan and obviously unqualified, who may be confirmed strictly as a matter of partisan loyalty.
http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/8074711-74/reid-senate-democrats
