Nuke It, Already

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The headline above, referrring to the Senate rule change to allow judge nominations an up or down vote, appeared in the L.A. Times.  I kid you not.

Count this page on the side of conservative social activists who are pushing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to "nuke" the filibuster.

We don't share these activists' enthusiasm for the White House judicial nominees triggering the current showdown. But we do believe that nominees are entitled to a vote on the floor of the Senate. The filibuster, an arcane if venerable parliamentary tactic that empowers a minority of 41 senators to block a vote, goes above and beyond those checks on majority power legitimately written into the Constitution.

Could someone please check on hell and report back if it's frozen over?

More at Michelle Malkin, who tipped me off that the NRO crew has started a new blog on the courts, Bench Memos. where K-Lo reports the Democrats shut down the senate committees at 11:30 today.

Yeah, that shutdown idea really worked for the GOP under Clinton.  Great idea!  Go for it.

See, most Americans?  If things don't go our way at work?  We still have to show up and, you know, actually work?  Even when we don't like it?  So, yeah.  We think you're acting like you're in kindergarten when you take your toys and go home.

Comments

[AnonymousCoward]

I don't get the vitrole against this. Without minority rights, there really is no point in having the senate in this day and age when partisanship is at a record high.

If we want to move toward majority rules in this country, let's just get it over with...divy up the country so everyone lives in their own little world oblvious to any minority concerns.