[sickoflibs]

RE:”The National Journal reports that Senate Democrats are laying the groundwork to chip away at the filibuster on January 5, 2011. They are going to push the idea that a simple majority of the Senate can abolish the filibuster rules, or radically change the rules, in a new Congress.”

This was tonight's main topic on MSNBC, naturally they love the idea now not realizing that if these rules were in effect in 2001 the Bush tax cuts would had never expired and they would have got nothing in that Obama deal.

Conservative talk radio was calling for this over judges in 2006. Mark Levin even called filibustering judges by the minority unconstitutional on his show and in his book (he no longer uses that argument, guess why.)

Democrats have twice as many Senate Seats up in 2012 than Republicans so this is a dangerous game for them to play as it would have been for Republicans in 2006.

[DoughtyOne]

Changing old rules that have been around for a long time, should be done with a lot of thought and wisdom. Those rules are there for a reason and have worked fairly well for many years.

EVERY TIME we consider a rules change, it must be done with the idea that the opposition will get the advantage when they are in power. If we can live with that, then it may be a sound change. In this instance, I am convinced it wouldn’t be.

I am surprised that Levin thought differently at one point.