The Coming Use Of The Nuclear Option

With the new nominee for the Supreme Court just starting the confirmation process, discussion is already centering on the use of the so called "nuclear option".  That nuclear option is a change to the Senate rules that would bar a filibuster of nominations to the Supreme Court.  The Democrats are already denouncing any move by the Republicans to do this as roughly equivalent to the end of Western civilization.

I happened to hear a small bit of Rush Limbaugh's show today.  He reminded his listeners of what Harry Reid said last October at a time when he thought that Hillary Clinton would be president.  Reid told reporters that if Republicans tried to filibuster a Supreme Court nomination by president Hillary Clinton, the Democrats would use the nuclear option to shut the Republicans down.  That's right, just a few months ago when they thought they would be in control, the Democrats announced that they would use the nuclear option.  Now that they lost, the Democrats see the nuclear option as a version of hell on earth.