Ranting to /dev/null

This is probably unnecessary

So Frist is looking to pass a rule change which would ban filibusters from the judicial nomination process. The Democrats, true to their obstructionist form, are refusing to allow any of Bush's judicinal nominees to come to a vote on the Senate floor, and have for the past five years. The Republicans are now considering the use of the "nuclear option" which would change the way the Senate does business forever.

This is, as I said, probably unnecessary. There is already a Constitutionally established process for filling vacant bench seats. It's called "recess appointment". If the Senate goes into recess while there are vacant judicial seats, the president has the Constitutional right and authority to appoint people to fill those seats without Senatorial oversight. Their appointments are good through the end of the next Senatorial session. So what President Bush does is to start appointing judges the Senate is in recess (which happens every month or so). It's not a way of permenantly filling benches, but it'd get the Senate's attention right quick.