This is the video of Harry Reid criticizing Republicans about doing away with the filibuster. Here is a series of clips with many Democrats doing the same. Now, I'm not going to talk about the hypocrisy here; that's already been discussed, and as many people have mentioned, it usually goes both ways.
What I want to point out is that the Democrats in these clips made compelling arguments. They sound sincere in their defense of the rules as they stood, the importance of minority rights. They employ several powerful arguments and phrases. This is not the only example of them using powerful rhetoric. What's interesting to me is that the Democrats are so much better at this than Republicans. Clearly, the Democrats didn't really believe what they were saying, but they could fake it.
It's very hard to go up against people who sound sincere when arguing for principles.
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