[Namyak]

Any person with an elementary grasp of Senate history can see through the lies these people are spewing. Truth is, the filibuster rules have already been altered in the past, and can continue to be altered. Robert "Sheets" Byrd rewrote the rules in 1975 to bring the number of votes necessary for a cloture down to 60 from 67... of course, I still love ambushing clueless liberals by asking them to explain the filibuster to me, and whenever they bring up the magic number "2/3rds" I always jump on them with "But isn't 60 only 3/5ths?". At that point they either have to cede the argument to me that they are clueless as to simple math and the history of the topic they're arguing, or they have to agree with me that Senate rules have been changed in the past for political reasonings and can continue to change. Senate procedural rules are not, as they are so desperately trying to portray, immutable and unchanging.

[mblaise]

"Senate procedural rules are not, as they are so desperately trying to portray, immutable and unchanging."

very true! and politicians will always find ways of holding one position when they're the majority and the opposite position when they're the minority! but we shouldn't always make changes that may be to our immediate advantage, that may be to our long-term disadvantage.