Jim Inhofe: “I am anxious to yield the floor to the distinguished Senator from Indiana, who has an amendment to bring up at this…”

“I am anxious to yield the floor to the distinguished Senator from Indiana, who has an amendment to bring up at this time. But before doing that, I have sat and listened very carefully while Senator Hatch was talking about the constitutional option and the response from the Senator from Illinois. Sometimes you have to leave the individuals and hear what is being said outside this Chamber. I have a couple editorials I am going to read at this time. The first is from yesterday's Investors Business Daily. Granted, that is generally a fairly conservative publication, and the next editorial I will read certainly is not one that would be identified as even moderate or conservative. Investors Business Daily says: Rules of order: The Democrats would have us believe filibustering is a time-honored constitutional and Senate tradition. It's not. And it wasn't that long ago that they felt quite differently. A showdown now looms after Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee used their 10-8 majority to move the nominations of Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen for federal appeals court seats to the full Senate. Democrats threaten to filibuster these picks, Majority Leader Bill Frist threatens to employ the unfortunately named ``nuclear option'' restoring the quaint notion that 51 votes constitutes a majority, and Vice President Dick Cheney says he's willing to be the tie-breaking vote to ban filibusters of judicial nominees.…”