Earlier this week, Chuck "pull the plug on grandma" Grassley (R-IA) announced that he wouldn't support the health care legislation he's spent months watering down, even if it contained everything he wanted, if he couldn't get "more than four Republicans" on board.
And now, the latest standard for good faith bipartisanship has been set:
We ought to be focusing on getting 80 votes.
Of course this newfound need for a super-majority on major legislation wasn't being called for when the Republicans were in power -- otherwise we wouldn't have had the 2001 George Bush tax cuts for the rich or the 2003 prescription drug plan that had the pharmaceutical industry cheering, passed with 58 and 54 votes respectively.
And it should be noted that on those two occasions, Chuck Grassley hailed the "bipartisan legislation."