Harry Reid Hypocrisy

By now, I'm sure we've all heard Senator Harry Reid talking about using reconciliation to pass ObamaCare if they can't get 60 votes in the Senate. He calls Republicans obstructionists and insists that filibuster by the minority is a bad thing.

The problem is that four and a half years ago, when he was the minority leader, Harry Reid was very eloquent in precisely the opposite direction.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/reid-champion-of-the-filibuster-might-nuke-it-64690187.html

"It encourages moderation and consensus," Reid said in a 2005 floor speech in defense of the filibuster. "It gives voice to the minority, so that cooler heads may prevail.

"It also separates us from the House of Representatives -- where the majority rules. And it is very much in keeping with the spirit of the government established by the framers of our Constitution: limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances. ..."

"The filibuster is a critical tool in keeping the majority in check," Reid continued. "This central fact has been acknowledged and even praised by senators from both parties. ..."

"The right to extended debate is never more important than when one party controls Congress and the White House. ..."

"Some in this Chamber want to throw out 217 years of Senate history in the quest for absolute power. They want to do away with Mr. Smith coming to Washington. They want to do away with the filibuster. They think they are wiser than our Founding Fathers. I doubt that's true."

Reid said then that preserving the filibuster was the "most important issue I've dealt with in my 40 years of public service."

So, when a filibuster serves his interest, it is "a critical tool in keeping the majority in check" and "very much in keeping with the spirit of the government established by the framers of our Constitution: limited government, separation of powers, checks and balances." But when a filibuster would BLOCK his partisan interests, a filibuster becomes merely an obstructionist tactic used to thwart the will of the minority party?

Can a politician GET any more hypocritical than that? This is a good indicator that all Reid cares about is advantage for his own political party and ideology. In his mind, what he wants is right and good, and everybody else can go hang.

Nice people we have in charge right now... honorable and ethical. Right?