[Alberta's Child]

This isn't even a news story. The Republicans wanted to do this years ago but the Democrats put up a stink about it.

As anyone in Washington knows, the best way to get political cover for something controversial is to let your opponents do it themselves.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“.......[Harry] Reid clinched support for changing the rules at the weekly Tuesday Senate Democratic caucus lunch.

.....Reid, without mentioning the colleague’s name, told his caucus that one of its senior members who had long opposed filibuster reform, recently had a change of mind and privately urged him to trigger the controversial tactic.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) then rose before the room full of Democrats and identified herself as the recent convert.

“She got up right afterward and said, ‘He was talking about me,’” said a Democratic senator..... ?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094249/posts