Nuclear=Destruction. No reconstruction possible.

So my blogs have been really long and infrquent. That's not really fair to my faithful audience of three, so I figure I will change that. My 'fed-up-with-American-Politics' factor is reaching critical.

There's so much bullshit floating in the air in Washington lately, they are going to shut the place down to let it settle. So much for bullshit, let's start with facts: Republican senators blocked as many Democratic judges during the Clinton administration as Democratic senators have proposed blocking during our current Bush administration. Turn-about is fair play, right?

Hell no. Instead, Republicans-in-Power are going for the nuclear option, the destruction of the filibuster as a 140-year old institution. What you are witnessing is a naked and short-sighted power-grab by religious conservatives in the U.S. Senate. Claiming credit for delivering the fall elections to the Republicans, this faction of the Republican party wants payback. They don't care if they have to destroy democratic institutions to get their results.

You know, this stinks so much that I am ashamed to even be a conservative Democrat. And what's the worst part about all of this? The destruction of the filibuster is going to come back to haunt the Republicans when they are a minority party a few inevitable elections from now. They will have shot their feet completely off in an unbridled majority power grab, and screwed American democracy up for the people. How do you like those apples?