In 1988, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, the former Grand Wizard of the West Virginia Ku Klux Klan, then Senate Majority Leader forced an end to a filibuster by the Minority. He ordered the Sergeant at Arms to arrest Republicans and physically place them on the Senate floor. Did this nuclear option destory the Senate? No...

Republicans have a choice: allow an increasingly shrill, bitter, highly partisan minority to overturn the will of the people as expressed in the past two elections or use the power of their majority to restore the Senate tradition of prohibiting filibusters on judicial nominees.

We voted for President Bush and expect him to nominate judges in line with OUR conservative views. We voted for senators and expect them to represent US by confirming those judges. Anyone who thinks that not implementing the constitutional power of the majority will encourage the Democrats to be nice to Republicans should we return to minority status (GOD FORBID...oops... sorry... I meant oh great earth mother) is fooling themselves.