[Tammy8]

If only that were true. Usually Rs are too “nice” or too busy “reaching across the aisle” and don’t stand up to the dims no matter what. Then the Rs are oh so surprised when the dims walk all over them every chance they get. We really need to elect conservatives that are tough enough to stand toe to toe with the dims and give them a dose of their medicine.

[Political Junkie Too]

This one is especially distasteful because it was originally the idea of Republicans to do this when the Democrats were filibustering Bush's judicial nominations.

It was John McCain who formed the Gang of 14 to find a "compromise" that prevented the Republicans from exercising the "nuclear" parliamantary process to force the rule change, but apparently, the Democrats filed the plan away for their own future use against weak Republicans.

-PJ