Well…have been waiting for this day for a while now…with all of the repub efforts to nullify the results of the last two elections in the senate by the egregious use of the filibuster, Harry Reid and the dems have finally said enough…enough of the lies from the repubs, enough of the obstruction, and enough of coddling the children on the right, and have changed the rules today to allow presidential appointees to be approved by a simple majority instead of the 60 votes that was the standard until now. But, to hear the repubs whine, and whine, and whine…you would think that this rule was enshrined in the constitution…it’s not..the senate gets to set it’s own rules and change them any time the current rules will not let the senate do it’s job. It is on the repubs that this rule had to be changed…they have done nothing but obstruct qualified nominees for nothing but ideology…to make sure that Obama is not successful…this never happened under ole GW when the repubs ran the senate…the dems voted for qualified candidates and most of his appointees were approved..even while we were holding our noses at some of them….it’s about time we took this weapon away form the children on the right…they have shown that they are not responsible enough to use it…good for you Harry…geez…