THIS JUST IN: Senator Reid triggers "nuclear option" in Senate to end endless GOP filibusters? Or not.

UPDATE from David Waldman over at DailyKos, who tends to understand the arcane ways of the Congress. David's post is hard to summarize.  Just wade on over.

About time, if I understand this story correctly.  The Republicans instituted the permanent filibuster when Obama took office, and that was the end of that.  No more legislation, ever, on anything unless you have 60 votes in the Senate.

That's not the way it works.  It's not the way it ever works.  But the Republicans decided to implement a permanent filibuster of everything, and to forever change the way the Senate works, and essentially make the body permanently dysfunctional.

Tonight, perhaps, Senator Reid changed that.

And I love the quote about the GOPer saying "wait until they're in the minority."  Yeah, right.  When we're in the minority our guys, as usual, will be afraid to use the filibuster out of fear that it wouldn't be nice.  So big deal if it's eliminated.  For one party, it already was years ago.