[tobyhill]

The Dems will never again be in the majority. They have no platform except for being the party of no. Zell Miller has known this for years. There is too much at stake with the SC to allow for obstructionist to take over. The people of the US made their decision and put the Republican Party in the majority and the President back in office and now it's time the Rats and Rinos respect the American's wishes. This is not about the right to filibuster, it's the rights of the nominees to get an up or down vote. Filibusters have been a part of the Legislative process for years but not for the advise and consent role of the Senate until the Rats, with the endorsement of the Rinos, allowed it. The nuke option would have brought the Senate back to the "good faith" agreement that has been in effect for years.

[Txsleuth]

One of the most irritating arguments that the RINOs have used re: the constitutional option, is the one that involves hypothesizing that "some day we will be in the minority, and we wouldn't want them to do that to us"--

Sorry, but that is a LOSER attitude and it has no place in decision making...by using that arguement, McCain and others are "giving" help to the dems, which in turn could turn out to be self-fulfilling fears...

Can you imagine McCAin as president, not wanting to go to war with Afghanistan, because someday they might be mad at us??? sheesh