FILIBUSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, there's not much new in the 'news'. The Republicans of the Senate are attempting to push through a change in policy that would weaken the filibuster; the main defense of the minority against majority rule. Specifically, the repubs worry that dems will use the filibuster to blast away at conservative supreme court nominees, but they are probably also afraid of the left fighting some of the more extreme right bills that are going to be coming through Congress (and they ARE coming, just you wait and see). Whatever happened to the days when Congress worked together as one mass, largely unfettered by the extreme agenda of either side? Or was that all some absurd pipe dream I cooked up after reading my government textbook? Whatever it was, I wrote my [repub] congressman about it, although I don't really know what his view on the whole scenario is (he's Bob Goodlatte, btw).