Should we let Bill Frist & Co. change the rules of the senate ?

"The Senate must oppose the "nuclear option" to eliminate the filibuster, and preserve the checks and balances that have kept our courts fair and independent for centuries."

Anyone with a basic knowledge of civics knows that the filibuster has NOTHING TO DO with checks and balances.

except of course for the judicairy, who is above being checked and balanced and don't you dare excercise that constitutional right Congress!

A simple up or down vote is all that is needed, traditionally

Anyone with a basic knowledge of civics knows that the filibuster has NOTHING TO DO with checks and balances.

Checks and balances has to do with each branch checking on the other 2 branches

except of course for the judicairy, who is above being checked and balanced

FOCUS writes:The debate is almost over in the battle to restore Senate tradition by ending the Democrats' unprecedented filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees. In what could be a matter of hours, senators may be asked to vote on the "constitutional option" -- a plan to return to 51, the number of votes needed to confirm a nominee to the federal bench.Those behind the filibusters have tried every trick in the book to paint the constitutional option as a Republican "power grab," but Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson says it's all smoke and mirrors -- just the latest example of the kind of name-calling (as reported by Dr. Dobson in CitizenLink) that liberals have resorted to because they have no rational arguments to offer."Liberals (are) ratcheting up their rhetoric, accusing the GOP -- and me, personally -- of committing grave crimes against democracy," Dr. Dobson explains. "Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar has called me the 'antichrist of the world' for pointing out how he broke his campaign promise by supporting his party's filibusters. On the Senate floor last week Vermont's Patrick Leahy -- after wondering what planet I might be from -- accused me of 'contemptible' actions and of practicing 'religious McCarthyism' for pointing out the anti-religious bias evident in the public statements and actions of some Democratic senators.""This kind of bluster is what is contemptible. It is just another attempt to obscure the real issue here -- that every judicial nominee with clear majority support is entitled to an up-or-down vote," Dr. Dobson adds. "Sen. Salazar, Sen. Leahy and their colleagues won't admit that, because it would jeopardize their efforts to hang on to the last bastion of liberal power, the courts. But their smokescreens must be seen through, and the constitutional option must be approved at the conclusion of this debate."You can do your part to make that happen by calling your two U.S. senators right now -- at their Washington and local district offices -- and telling them respectfully that you want them to end the obstruction and support the constitutional option. For a list of office phone numbers for both of your senators, visit the CitizenLink Action Center and type your ZIP code into the space provided.(Incidentally, you might be interested to know that -- despite the charges of the left -- it's hardly radical to oppose the use of filibusters to prevent up-or-down votes for judicial nominees. Back in 1968, in fact, some of the leading legal minds in the country said as much in a letter to the Senate.)Thank you for taking the time to stand for righteousness.