Our Republican friends and readers (but not the libertarians) have been emailing us repeatedly insisting that the GOP’s threatened “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees does NOT really represent changing any rules or setting any new precedent.
So we found this quote by Senator Bill Frist in USA Today interesting:
“There are times in history where you have to change either the rules or the precedent based on external behavior,” he said Friday.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.