Larry Kudlow has a great piece today over on National Review Online. It deals with the ‘nuclear’ option to end the un-Constitutional filibuster of President Bush’s judicial nominees. He is all for the option, because ending the filibuster will clear up the Senate so other important legislation can be passed.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid doesn’t seem to get the fact that George W. Bush won the presidential election last November. He also doesn’t get that the Republicans picked up five seats in the Upper Chamber. That’s called a mandate. Despite this, Reid believes he can negotiate, or even dictate, which judicial appointments can be voted on in the Senate.

That’s utterly preposterous, and it’s one of the many reasons why Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist must put Reid and the rest of the filibustering Senate Democrats in their place once and for all.

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For Byrd, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats to protest that the Senate rules are inviolable, when it’s clear that all they have in mind is their own political advantage, is the height of hypocrisy.

It’s time for the Senate Republicans to go nuclear. It’s time for the president and the GOP to enjoy the mandate they earned in the voting booth last fall.