The above comment is currently:

- Factually correct. Reid did end multiple filibusters.

- Unbiased - this is an iterated prisoners dilemma in that each side is forced to assume the other will make a worse action given the opportunity.

Why is this being downvoted?

I upvoted and agree with the GP comment, but some might be mad that he didn't go one more step back and explain that the Republicans had already decided to block nearly all of Obama's appointees for purely political reasons. So Reid was just responding to a prior escalation.

I think it misses the mark in that:

1. The supreme Court is not comparable to any other appointment 2. There's no guarantee that McConnell wouldn't have done this regardless

I think the simple distinction is that McConnel upset decades of detente and will reap enormous rewards and pay no price. Compare this to Joe Biden helping confirm Clarence Thomas because he believed it was the Senate's duty to give nominees a fair hearing and that the favor would be returned. That is over now and we're in a game of beggar thy neighbor. The salt in the wound is that Trump is only president due to antiquated rules that are set in law despite being a truly pointless tradition.