MSNBC’s Martin Bashir led his show Thursday with news of the historic changing of Senate rules, and placed the blame squarely on the party not in charge for the Democrat’s unprecedented power grab:
We begin with Republican obstruction finally pushing Democrats to go nuclear, changing the rules of the Senate to clear the way for several of the President’s nominees. The landmark vote, detonated just after noon, striking down nearly 225 years of precedent, ending longstanding filibuster rules and breaking Republicans’ hold on Presidential picks for the cabinet and judiciary.