pbrauer
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No, I don't like changing the rules, despite what I wrote in the OP, I think he filibuster is very important. I am positive Harry Reid feels the same way, but unfortunately the Republicans left him with no choice.Yeah ole Harry came through for ya!
This move will surely allow the lefties to pack the courts but I don't think you realize the implications it has in store for you in the future. For if the Senate on a partisan vote change the rules to avoid filibusters on judges, the next majority can use the same tactics in repealing Obamacare, passing a Balanced Budget Amendment and anything else they want to put out there. If the House maintains their majority which looks likely, and Republicans take the majority in the Senate which currently looks very possible as does a Republican president, it may well be the very thing that will allow Congress to undo the damage that the left has done to this country. They could reign in the Department of Education, Department of Energy, and other agencies like the EPA which keeps pumping out feckless numbers of new regulations killing jobs, violating property rights and raising heating costs for many Americans by 46%.
You want to change the rules? Well two can play that way and when the Republicans are done cleaning up the mess the left has created, they can then restore the rule of law.
Sure I know what the Republicans could do given the right circumstance, but that would mean eliminating the filibuster altogether. That's not going to happen, I think the Republicans has more sense than that.