Remember how stirred up the Democrats got when the Cheney threatened to gavel the filibuster out of existence? Krugman called it the "atomic option" and said i

Remember how stirred up the Democrats got when the Cheney threatened to gavel the filibuster out of existence? Krugman called it the "atomic option" and said it would destroy "centuries of Senate procedure." The Democratic Party painted it as an existential threat to the nature of the Republic. What a difference a few years makes.