In an editorial titled, “The Raw Hypocrisy Of Reconciliation,” Investor's Business Daily joined the fray of conservative media outlets pushing a Naked Emperor News video -- promoted by Breitbart.tv -- to accuse Democrats of hypocrisy for considering using reconciliation to pass health care reform.

From IBD's February 24 editorial:

Republicans are being warned they must help pass the Democrats' health reform or face the “nuclear option” preventing filibusters. But when in the minority, Democrats called such threats undemocratic.

As a powerful senior Democratic senator in 2005, Vice President Joseph Biden condemned bending Senate rules to prevent the minority from filibustering President Bush's judicial nominations.

“I say to my friends on the Republican side: You may own the field right now,” Biden said on the Senate floor in the gravest of tones. “But you won't own it forever, and I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.”

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The Biden comment is just one of a series of samples of televised statements of leading Democrats, mostly from Senate floor speeches, gathered together by Naked Emperor News and featured on the Breitbart.tv Web site.

Nothing so far in the yearlong debate on health reform has exposed the Democrats' rank hypocrisy as much as the viewing of these past statements condemning as an unconstitutional power grab what they now propose to do.

Of course, as Media Matters has repeatedly noted, the senators in the video were expressing opposition to the proposal to change Senate rules to eliminate use of the filibuster for judicial nominations -- i.e. the “nuclear option” -- not the use of reconciliation.