Don't Believe Her Charlie Brown

Hey "Peanuts" fans. Remember how Lucy would pull back the football just before Charlie Brown kicked it? How he never caught on! Welcome to the U.S. Senate. It seems the Demos have just pulled the ball away again and Sen Frist and the Repubs still don't get it.

The spectacle of the Bolton hearings can only add to the disgust of conservatives who are watching this dog and pony show and wondering if they missed something on who is the majority party in the Senate. Listen up guys! Bush won the election. The republican party picked up Senate seats in the election! You're not the minority party anymore and "go along to get along" isn't going to cut it with the voters forever.

The game has changed so it may be that the rules need to change with it. The country seems almost equally divided. If it is going to take a super majority to conduct business than neither party will be effective. In this case a simple majority ought to be the rule. The Republicans obviously can't hold all their people together even in crucial votes like confirmation of their President's nominees. We still have Democrats from "red states" whose obstructionist practices should be ammo for their next election opponent. The Constitution pretty well defines the cases where a super majority is in order. Trying to co-opt the Executive branch's duty to appoint and completely stretching the "advise and consent" provision to a point of lunacy should not be acceptable.

I say "go for it". Use the Constitutional option to bring back majority rule except where specifically directed by the Constitution. Let the Democrats be recognized for the obstrudtionists that they are and trust the voters to do the rest