The Nuclear Option? Lets Fristf**k the GOP and see how they like it...

Everything you wanted to know about the "nuclear option"
If the Republicans are as good as their word, it's going to be much uglier than you think.

By Tim Grieve

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/05/12/nuclear_option_primer/index.html

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SHIELDS AND BROOKS

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks speak about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and the Senate Republicans' proposal to use a "nuclear option" to ban filibusters in judicial nominations.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/jan-june05/sb_4-15.html

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Opponents of Frist's 'Nuclear Option' Turn Up Volume Ahead of Possible Senate Confrontation

by Abid Aslam

WASHINGTON -- Voters from across the country lobbied Capitol Hill Wednesday as part of an unusual movement to support their senators' right to make endless speeches.

At issue is the filibuster, that time-honored parliamentary tactic of using lengthy oration to stall a vote on contentious proposals.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is seeking to eliminate the filibuster, which he has derided as unfair because it enables minority Democrats to block Republican initiatives--chiefly, President George W. Bush's nominees to federal judgeships.

Known as the ''nuclear option,'' Frist's proposed change in Senate rules would replace a super-majority of 60 votes now required to shut down a filibuster, with a 51-vote simple majority of the 100-seat chamber. More...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0428-08.htm

My little trip down memory lane is a reminder of how nice the GOP played...I think a revisit of the Nuclear Option idea next year in the senate would be "De Bomb"

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The "HARDBALL" will be in our court!

War on all the auto worker's kid's Christmas.