[gaijin]

Kay, I thought about your answer and I realize my question was a little silly:

I think you believe that the rules will revert to the old arrangement, simply because it is in the GOP interest to make the approval “bar” higher, rather than the unusual place to which it was lowered.

Right?

[Zhang Fei]

I think you believe that the rules will revert to the old arrangement, simply because it is in the GOP interest to make the approval “bar” higher, rather than the unusual place to which it was lowered. Right?

Theoretically, when your party has the White House, you want the bar lowered. The GOP obviously doesn't have the White House. In practice, the super-majority required for a confirmation vote may have saved us from Harriet Miers.

[Zhang Fei]

I think you believe that the rules will revert to the old arrangement, simply because it is in the GOP interest to make the approval “bar” higher, rather than the unusual place to which it was lowered. Right?

Some of this is so that purple state Republicans don't have to look blatantly ideological by voting against the President's nominees. Just flip the party labels, and it works the same way when when the Dems have a Senate majority and the GOP the White House.