[napscoordinator]

It does not make sense for them to do this when they don’t have the House which is where everything begins (basically). If they were going to do this, they should have two years ago. Of course, I don’t want them to at all but if they wanted to do this two years ago was the time not now.

[rawhide]

Any presidental nominations only go to the Senate for confirmation.

Nominations "The president shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States . . . . " U.S. Constitution, Article II, section 2, clause 2

And there is this:

In accordance with the Constitution, the Senate has responsibility for advice and consent to ratification of treaties with other nations that have been negotiated and agreed to by the Executive Branch.

So the Senate will have a lot of power in their hands, without House approval, if they made this rules change.

[Eagle of Liberty]

It does not make sense for them to do this when they don’t have the House which is where everything begins (basically). If they were going to do this, they should have two years ago. Of course, I don’t want them to at all but if they wanted to do this two years ago was the time not now.

Its all about judges. They want a few more judges to retire in the next two years and if that happens, they can vote in new ones by stopping any debate with a simple majority instead of the current 60 needed because of the Dem precedent set a few years back. I don't know about anyone else, but I am getting pretty sick of Dems setting the precedents that the Republicans simply decide to abide by.

And I also like how the MSM reports a Republican House Repeal vote as show, but not a word of disgust at the Dems for trying to obliterate the filibuster.

[PapaBear3625]

The purpose is to allow the Senate to confirm Cabinet and court appointments (Senate confirmation does not need House concurrence) by simple majority vote. It would allow Obama to appoint whoever he wanted to the courts (for life) as long as the Dems approved.

Take this as a way for the Dems to pack the courts with young Leftists before they lose power in 2012, with those leftist judges ruling in favor of the Socialist agenda for the next several decades.