Filibuster follies

Another good editorial from the Courier-Journal:

In an amazing display of insider maneuvering those outside Congress have come to know and hate, [Sen. Mitch] McConnell, the leader of the Senate Republicans, proposed a vote on a measure he first offered last year. It would allow the President to raise the nation’s debt ceiling without approval of Congress.

But Senate Democrats surprised him by actually offering to vote on it. Mr. McConnell then objected, thus invoking, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put it, “a filibuster of his own bill.”

Classic example, Mr. Reid added, of “Republicans not taking yes for an answer.”