Howard Kurtz refuses to acknowledge the evolution of the filibuster

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz casts a pox on both houses:

Howard Kurtz: You've hit on a pet peeve of mine, which is that journalists often seem to suffer from amnesia. Republicans defend filibusters and Democrats complain about them, the opposite of what we saw during the Bush years.

Well, Kurtz has hit on a pet peeve of mine, which is that journalists often draw false equivalence between vastly different situations. The Republicans' use of the filibuster in recent years is quite simply without precedent. It isn't the opposite of what we saw from Democrats a few years ago; it is vastly different.

Howard Kurtz keeps suggesting both parties are the same, and he keeps being wrong.