The nuclear option has been an issue that many Democrats and Republicans have alternately embraced or abandoned — depending on whether they are in the majority or not. Taking a look back to 2005, when Republicans threatened to invoke the nuclear option before a deal was reached, some comparisons are downright uncanny.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this year nearly parroted his predecessor’s comments from 2005 when he accused the GOP of turning “advise and consent into deny and obstruct.”