Reply #43: It's not the new GOP Senators who are going to decide this [View All]

It's the moderates and long time GOP Senators like McCain, Snowe, Collins, Hagel, Lugar, Specter, Chafee who will provide the critical votes to uphold or not uphold the presiding officer's ruling on the nuclear option. The old timers know the leadership is playing with fire here. Get rid of the de facto super majority currently required to appoint judges, and what's to stop a future Democratic administration with a Senate majority from packing the courts with judges that reflect its ideology?

The most annoying thing in this story was Rangel's call for bipartisanship to "simplify the tax code." Way to uncritically use the Republican frame there Charlie. That's the kind of language that's going to lead us right to the flat tax. He owes $5 to the pizza fund for that one.