[MeekOneGOP]

Hey ! On FOX News the other day a comment was made that it would be EASY to stop the filibuster. Frist just needs to schedule a vote for 3 a.m. and have the GOP Senators show up for the vote. The problem is, according to FOX, that none of the Senators would show up at that time, GOP OR 'RAT ! What's that all about? There must be a catch? . . .

[deport]

 The "nuclear option" being discussed among Republicans only has been tried twice in the history of the Senate, according to former Parliamentarian Bob Dove.
     Most recently, it was used in 1975 to make it easier to break filibusters. For more than two decades, civil rights legislation had been routinely stalled in the Senate because it was nearly impossible to break filibustering minorities.
     Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller came over to the Senate to preside as president of the body and recognized a resolution to change the Senate's "standing rules" to make it easier to break the filibuster.
     Immediately, a "point of order" — or parliamentary objection — was made. Mr. Rockefeller tabled the objection and the resolution was put to a simple up-or-down vote and passed by a simple majority.
     "It was an ugly, ugly scene," said Mr. Dove, who was the Senate's assistant parliamentarian at the time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/907294/posts?page=2#2

[Sacajaweau]

There is a catch. These folks get dragged out of bed and are taxied to the chambers. Hillary at 3 AM. SCAREY!!!!