Before going off too much on Spector and the Gang of 14, consider how few judges Bush was getting through before they broke the logjam, and what the vote in this week’s Slumber Party session and similar bills would have been if the nuke option had gone through and eliminated the usefulness of the filibuster to the republicans when they found themselves in the minority.
you have a point, although it remains to be seen whether the Dems will avail themselves the nuke option if at any point they see an advantage to doing so