Falling in line is required for Republicans.

It's official: Toe to the party line or else... See my tag line at kos below: Better get some ballalaika lessons, Stalinism is coming to town

We're back in the U.S.S.R.
(You don't know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R!)

Republican Stalinism
Via TAPPED, Jonah Goldberg asks The National Review to explain itself:

Let's stir the pot nice and early. I'm not sure I understand NR's reversal on filibusters. In a December editorial -- titled "Let them Filibuster" -- the magazine said:

So we sympathize with those Republicans who have been proposing to change the Senate rules to make it easier to confirm nominees who have majority support. Nevertheless, we think the idea is a mistake.

And yesterday we said:

For Republicans to leave the filibusters in place now after months of demanding a change would be ignominious. The same pundits who are saying that the majority party should not insist on its prerogatives would turn around and say that the majority party is responsible and should be held accountable for everything the government does. More important, a surrender would tell everyone -- conservative voters, Democratic senators and interest groups, and the White House -- that Republican senators were irresolute in their support for judicial conservatism. It would thus set back the urgent cause of a reformation of the federal judiciary.

Here's what I don't get: Is NR's argument that ending the filibuster would be bad but now that GOP prestige is on the line it's necessary?

Kudos to Goldberg for asking The National Review a difficult political question. BTW, the answer to his question is falling in line is required for Republicans.

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