Who knew something with such a silly name as filibuster against a couple judicial nominations could create a showdown so important as what occurred a couple days ago. As I'm sure most people know by now a group of 7 democrats and 7 republicans "stole defeat from the jaws of victory" in creating a compromise literally moments before the "constitutional option" aka "nuclear option" aka 'end filibuster as we know it option' was going to be voted on. While I do believe that the filibuster was being overused and that judicial nominations that come out of the Judiciary Committee should have an up or down vote, I also know that republicans have used the filibuster and other ways to stop judicial nominations in their tracks. The funny thing about all this is no one seemed to mention that ending the filibuster would have essentially destroyed minority rights to keep a role in many important parts of legislation. Just because the republicans have a majority in both the house and the senate and practicaly every committee doesn't mean the democrats shouldn't get a say in anything. I heard a great suggestion about changing the way judicial nomications come through the senate by advice and consent.