He’s fallen and maybe he can’t get up<$NoAd$>. TPM Reader JH sends us in the confirmation of the Chip Reid’s double-self-bamboozle-backflip on Imus this morning.
Let’s go to the tape (emphasis added) …
What it is all about is this so-called Nuclear Option, it’s complicated, but basically the Republicans are threatening to change the rules in the Senate, so that the Democrats can no longer bloc these seven or so very conservative Bush Federal Court nominees. Democrats are saying ‘If you’re going to do that than we are going to pull the trigger on what we call the Nuclear Option, meaning we are going to shut this place down. We’re going to turn the Senate into a legislative wasteland’, which some people say it already is, but they are going to block everything they can.
Uuuuufff.
You see there on the slo-mo he goes in for the GOP hoodwink and then tumbles into a full self-bamboozle mistaking the ‘nuclear option’ for what the Dems want to do in response to the nuclear option.
The thrill of victory and the agony of the self-bamboozle …
