Is everyone named Kathryn/Catherine bonkers (see here)?

Don’t answer that, actually, for obvious reasons. Catherine Crier rants about judges on the H-Bomb and ominously ends, warning against a filibuster rule change: “Please remember, the results are with us FOR LIFE.” Girl, it’s a procedural rule for goodness sake. This isn’t a life and death decision. Heck, people get married with less deliberation than is happening over this rule change attempt. And…there is a lot that is silly in her rant, but perhaps most ridiculous is this: “However, I am watching as a mere fraction of a president’s nominees is objected to through legitimate Senatorial procedures. Instead of questioning the validity or appropriateness of his choice, President Bush is prepared for his Senators to move the goal post to insure approval for his lower court nominees today, and more importantly, for his Supreme Court nominees in the near future.” What has been happening for the last four years over Priscilla Owen? The fact of the matter is the Senate Dems don’t care that the likes of Owen and Bill Pryor, etc. are perfectly (and exceptionally) qualified–because the case has been made again and again and again. It’s all about keeping them in limbo. And so there is the badly named “nuclear option.”