[Guillermo]

It doesn't take a genius to trash precedent and gather 41 votes.

[TomGuy]

It doesn't take a genius to trash precedent and gather 41 votes.

Why 41 votes? First time in 214 years of American history that it takes a super majority to get judges out of committee and to a floor vote. Why? That didn't happen in 1789 or 1860 or 1960 or 1996. Trent Lott made a deal with Tom Daschle a couple years ago. Now, that deal is biting the Pubbies in the rear. All previous administrations only needed a simple majority, not a supermajority, to get judicial nominations approved. Daschle may not have been the genius, but the Pubbie who agreed to the deal was no scholar, either.