[gaijin]

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.

Riight..!

OK, so for now the proper GOP course would be to revert to the old 60-vote rule for as long as Obama remains Prez. Then, when there's a Conservative Prez, Senate GOP gets pay back by switching the rules, as Reid did, to the much lower 51-vote simple majority, thereby almost automatically confirming any conservative appointment.

Right?

I just want to get super clear on it, because the 2013 Nuclear Option event stands out very clearly in my mind.

[Zhang Fei]

Right? I just want to get super clear on it, because the 2013 Nuclear Option event stands out very clearly in my mind.

Yeppers.