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Somewhere along the way the liberals on Capitol Hill got it all wrong. They earnestly and quite mistakenly believe that the rule of law in America is that a minority of disaffected senators should deny Americans and the president the right to see the Constitution work the way the framers and architects intended it work. They are banking on the fact that most Americans will either be too tired to hear one more word about the filibuster or so tuned out about it use or its affect on their lives that the liberals on Capitol Hill can do work they crude obstructionist handiwork out of sight of the American voter.

But, many Americans are paying attention to what is transpiring in America. Americans understand that the first step toward the dismantling of America is to disengage the judiciary, to handicap the President's ability to have full use and exercise of his constitutional mandate and to in effect decapitate America's leadership by controlling the rule of law.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist went on a nationwide telecast Sunday night to churches all across America, courtesy of such stalwart leaders like Dr. James Dobson, Chuck Colson and Albert Mohler to alert our nation of faith that he may have to use the "nuclear option" to allow for a majority vote on the President's federal appeals court judicial nominees.

The target of the "nuclear option" is the 200-year-old tradition of the Senate filibuster which has been hijacked by liberals in the U.S. Senate. Its use has allowed and empowered 41 or more senators to prevent a majority of senators from exercising their constitutional duty to offer "Advise and Consent" on the President's nominees.

Liberals in the senate have abused their power -- and the one and only way to return the Senate to an institution of genuine bipartisan cooperation and compromise on important issues is for Senator Frist and the Republican Senators to exercise leadership by ending the filibuster rule as it applies to appointments by the president of judicial nominees.

The "nuclear option" became patently necessary due to the clearly abysmal actions taken by the federal courts, not only in the Terry Schiavo case at the federal level, but the impact the Florida state court judge had in being allowed to totally ignore the Constitutional protected afforded all Americans to Due Process.

This was a legal system at the federal level and at a state level that literally put to death a woman, executing her by juridical fiat in plain sight. The Florida state judge ignored the rule of law of Florida, ignored the facts and even ignored the protection and sanctity of life which is guaranteed within the framework of the Constitution. In effect Judge Greer made new law from his bench...the true intent of the law was all but ignored.

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