This is a fine howdy-do

Call it irony, call it aggravation, call it rage. Call it what you like, but notice the obvious conclusion one can draw from the DC Circuit Court’s denial of Presidential recess powers except between sessions of Congress (essentially between December and January of every other year):

. . . if the DC panel’s opinion is upheld, it would empower the Senate minority to nullify the president’s constitutional recess appointment power, using technical peculiarities of the Senate’s own rules. That’s immensely frustrating to some Democrats, whose efforts to limit the Senate minority’s filibuster power were quashed by party leaders just a day before the opinion was released.

Hopefully the Supreme Court will reverse this decision, but no bets, given the five conservative justices on that panel.

Harry Reid, you and your fellow old-timers in the Senate who were afraid to change the filibuster rules because you thought you might be in the minority someday? You’re going to regret it.