By the way, talked to a well-known Senator this past weekend. Republicans are calling the simple majority vote the "Constitutional" option, not the nuclear option.
The nuclear option is what the Dems did with the filibusters. He also told me that Robert Byrd changed the same rule 3 times on filibusters and that Trent Lott had done so twice. So there is precedent for the change in the Senate rules.
Also, it appears that Janice Rogers Brown will be the first up. She is a conservative black female who sits on the California Supreme Court. And get this -- she is the daughter of a sharecropper from Greenville, Alabama (about 40 miles south of Montgomery, AL.
when will Janice Brown be brought up? Look forward to seeing how Robert Byrd will vote on this on!
Janice Rogers Brown... GREAT !