Nuke that Filibuster!

Isn't it enough they control all three branches of government, the majority of Governorships and the fourth estate? Now they want to strip the Democrats of the last remaining vestige of balance of power. The filibuster. Nick Anderson of the LA Times writes...

Senate Republican leaders, bolstered by the party's Nov. 2 victories, are weighing a move to deny Democrats the right to filibuster judicial nominees indefinitely in the coming Congress.

Tom DeLay is a bastard. Plain and simple. He fights to win and doesn't care about what he tramples to get there. First, he breaks a bunch of campaign finance laws. Then he tries to bribe a fellow Republican Congressman. Then he re-districts unfairly in Texas. Then he changes the rules about leading while under indictment and now he does trying to kill the time-honored filibuster... I'm getting really tired of their unfair and probably illegal tactics. I think that it is a matter of time until these guys get what's due.

I hope the few dems that that are still in congress make the most of blocking these GOP assholes. Republicans may be the majority, but not by much. We can stop them from getting anything done. Make them really work for it. The U.S. Congress can learn something from the California legislature which is dealing with Governor Arnold's attempts to re-rig the system.

That's all I have to say on this matter.