Filibuster to be busted

This might be the week that the Senate goes nuclear on Presidential nominations.

Amid acrimony, Senate moves toward historic vote to change its rules
 

"Reid said he planned to use a party-line vote to change the Senate’s rules so that nominees can be confirmed by a simple majority, thereby doing an end run around a Republican blockade of nominees to key boards that oversee Wall Street and labor relations.

The method for changing the rules would require a ruling from the presiding officer, likely to be Vice President Biden, declaring filibusters on such Cabinet or agency nominations invalid, followed by a vote requiring 51 votes to uphold the ruling."

It's in the Republicans power to fix this.  They can confirm several nominees this week and show that they still can cooperate.  If they don't, they deserve to lose the power they've been wieldng.

And the Democrats do, too.  Presidential nominees shouldn't be filibustered.  It's about running the country like a business.  But as we've seen, the Republicans don't want the country to run well, and they hope the ruling party in the White House will get more of the blame.  So far, this strategy isn't working.