[SmithL]

I still maintain that the "nuclear option" shouldn't even be considered until the obstructionists have been forced to conduct a real-live, no-sleep, keep-talking filibuster. It's absolute nonsense that the mere threat of a filibuster has kept so many excellent nominees off of the bench.

[null and void]

Hmmmmm. Nuclear winter.

Shut down the law creating bureaucracy.

I'm having real trouble seeing a downside here...

[EagleUSA]

...then that would nuke any chance of bipartisan cooperation. Next follows threats from the Dems' side of the aisle to retaliate with "nuclear winter" -- in other words, obstructionism so that nothing gets done....
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Well since when was there EVER anything bipartisan about the left?? Their definition of bipartisan, IS YOU DO WHAT WE WANT. And obstructionism is their only "contribution" to America (along with radical socialism) so what else is new? The right, using this as an excuse, is pure politcal excrement...the right knows better but they just don't want to deal with the issue. The right continues to show how weak it is -- they have all the tools they need to crush the left in the Congress -- yet WHAT ARE THEY DOING? Still their little "I want to be liked" weak politics that is doing nothing but selling us, the people who put them there, DOWN THE RIVER!!

[Congressman Billybob]

Amazing to see this discussion in a San Francisco paper.

For a humorous but still accurate account of Harry Reid's nuclear winter, click below.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "A Triple Black Dog Double Dare to Infinity."

[b4its2late]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's attempt to change the Senate's rules so that Democrats cannot block up-or-down votes on judicial nominees

Obvious ignorance on the part of the writer right from the get go. It's tough to soar like an eagle when you have to deal with turkeys all day......Changing the senate rules my rear-end.........But that's what the dems want the general Joe Q public to think and their constant rhetoric makes it virtually impossible for the average American to see otherwise through their spewing lies...

[PureTrouble]

Keep the threat of the 'nuclear option' but don't enforce it. Dems will look like obstructionist. More Republicans in the Senate. Then the work that has been postponed so long can be done.