[swilhelm73]

Its not quite so trivial to remove the filibuster from the Constitution.

The Reps do have the 'nuclear option', but my guess here is they are hoping to use the Dems sordid bigoted activities in regards to judges against them in 2004 with the hope it will really hurt the Dems in the Senate.

Personally, I'd go straight for the 'nuclear option' and tell the partisan press where to get off when they started "reporting" Dem party press releases, since we know if the situation was reversed that's what the Dems would do. But then that's me.

[ontos-on]

I think it is a mistake to call the amendment of senate rules to outlaw filibuster in judicial advise and consent operations by the name preferred by the left, "the nuclear option".

Senate rules can be changed by the senate itself. Fillibuster is not in the Constitution. That you think so, only demonstrates the importance in not adopting the terminology and notions of the left.