Fillibuster, part 2

GratisNet: "For all those who thought the fillibuster 'deal' worked out by the 'Gang of 14' would last, I say think again. There will be a rule change to allow cloture by a simple majority rather than the 3/5ths vote currently required in the coming consideration of the replacement for Sandra O'Connor.

Of course Senate rules state that in order to end debate on changing the rules a supermajority of 2/3, 67 senators, is needed but this is merely an inconvenience and will not stop the extremists in the senate from having their way. Consider this scenario. The Senate parliamentarian will be kept from the Senate chamber, thus allowing the rules to be interpreted upon by the President of the Senate, Crash Cart Cheney, who will rule that the 2/3 rule to the contrary, only a simple majority is needed to change the rules regarding changing the rules.

The vote will then begin and the fillibuster, as it has been known since the early days of the Senate will have been eliminated. The vote will also demonstrate yet again that conservative republicans will let nothing get in the way of their agenda. Not any sense of ethics, not any sense of fair play, not any sense honor to historical traditions, not any sense of loyalty to country. Nothing can override the loyalty to the party, nothing. The damage done to mankind by such subservience to party, in the last century alone is mute testimony to such a warped philosophy."