Democrats were for the firing of FBI Director James Comey before they were against it.

Back in January, Democrats were irate after a closed-door briefing with Comey.

The Portland Press-Herald reported:

They described the exchange with Comey as “contentious” and even “combative,” while leaders accused him of using a double standard.

“One standard was applied to the Russians and another standard applied to Hillary Clinton,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who one member described as “just outraged” at Comey’s resistance to questions. Pelosi “really let Comey have it” during the meeting, the member said.

Rep. Hank Johnson said the “frustration” he and his colleagues felt “boiled down to Jim Comey.”

Last November, soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he did “not have confidence in” Comey “any longer” after he issued the vague letter notifying Congress that the FBI was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server days before the election.

Around the same time, Pelosi said Comey “couldn’t take the heat from Republicans.”

“It’s really unfortunate because I do believe he is a good person. Maybe he’s not in the right job,” she said.

When Maxine Waters was asked about what went on in a briefing with Comey, she said, “It’s classified, but all I can tell you is the FBI director has no credibility!” before stomping off.

While Democrats simply complained before President Trump took action and fired Comey, now they’re complaining about that, too.

McClatchy DC reports:

“This is Nixonian,” said the usually measured Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., recalling President Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973. Nixon forced the firing of the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate campaign scandal.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a Senate Intelligence Committee member, made a more direct connection. “President Trump’s dismissal of FBI Director Comey smacks of President Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre. If this is an effort to stop the investigations into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, it won’t succeed,” he said.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., saying “the reasoning and timing behind this firing is absolutely preposterous and unbelievable,” added that “It smacks of a Nixon-esque cover up of President Trump’s Kremlin ties.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he told Trump in a phone call Tuesday afternoon that he was “making a big mistake” in firing Comey. The New York Democrat questioned why Comey was fired now, noting that the FBI, Senate and House are investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.

“Congress needs to have immediate emergency hearings to obtain testimony directly from Attorney General [Jeff] Sessions, the deputy attorney general and FBI Director Comey,” Rep. Elijah Cummings said in a statement, according to The Hill.

“The White House was already covering up for [former national security adviser] Michael Flynn by refusing to provide a single document to Congress, and now the President fired the one independent person who was doing the most to investigate President Trump and his [2016] campaign over allegations of coordination with Russia.”