...God bless the healing hands of a doctor, but I don't want the Senate run by a man too worried about offending future voters for his presidential candidacy to use a heavy hand when it's needed. Lord knows the Democrats never shirked from it in fourty years...
Amen to that. By using the filibuster tactic they have already shown their willingness to use everything in their arsenal to block Bush's judicial nominees.
If it comes down to it, the repubs should use the nuclear option, for that reason. Hopefully it won't come to that, but the way they have been acting I wonder if it shouldn't have been done already.
I'd give them one more opportunity, but if it looks, sounds, or even smells like they are willing to filibuster again, then by all means, push the dang button. At this point I see no sense in letting them get away with undermining the people, their representatives, and their president.
The fact that they've placed Howard Dean in control of the DNC ought to be a clue as to what their response is going to be. But we'll see soon enough.
And Hillary, should she ever be President, will rue the day she thought of this tactic.