Filibusterin'

This debate is making me so mad. I'm sure everyone is so mad about it they're not thinking straight; an issue that's this deeply divided along party lines is not going to invite much critical thinking, since the first thing to do is make sure your side doesn't lose, with the self-examination coming afterwards.

So if no one is thinking straight, what makes people think that this is a good time to start changing the rules? When Bill Frist insists on the 214-year tradition of the Senate, does it not occur to him that someone, somewhere in those 214 years (or in this case, 133) would have been as annoyed as he is about not getting his way, but that our forefathers had good reason for exercing filibusters anyways? It makes me so mad that the majority party now wants to steamroll over the founding principles the minute it becomes an inconvenience for them, personally.