The Week contest: Nuclear option

Republicans can no longer filibuster presidential nominations, a rules change that many called the "nuclear option." What would be a better term for what the Democrats just did?

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This week's question: Senate Democrats recently amended the rules so that minority Republicans can no longer filibuster presidential nominations with just 41 votes — a rules change that many called the "nuclear option." Since that clichéd phrase is a bit melodramatic for a rules change, what would be a better term for what the Democrats just did?

RESULTS:

THE WINNER: Killabuster

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Robert J. Reed, Galesburg, Ill.

SECOND PLACE: No judge left behind

Bob Peffers, San Antonio

THIRD PLACE: The bluster-buster

Andrew Stritch, Sherbrooke, Quebec

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Bench pressing

William Bernsau, Jacksonville, Fla.

Common sense

Lynn Goldberg-Gursky, Enola, Pa.

New lids on the block

John D. Thompson, Pella, Iowa

Curb Your Antagonism Option

Kathy El-Assal, Middleton, Wis.

The "majority rules" rule

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, Colo.

Blockbuster

Alan Fraker, Greenfield, Mass.

Mutual Assured Destruction

Kevin Morgado, New Bedford, Mass.

Unblockaid

Charles Joyner, Burlington, N.C.

Democracy

Bob Bowen, Claremont, N.H.

The murder/suicide option

Cindy Cornell, Burlingame, Calif.

No dis appointment

Bill Klein, Appomattox, Va.

Disarmament

Sandra Bagnatori, San Francisco

Karma

Alfie Alschuler, Amherst, Mass.

The majority riles

Michael Maloney, Concord, N.H.

Republockin

Colby Seibold, Vancouver, Wash.

Zero Dark Forty-one

Judy Echols, Incline Village, Nev.

The Did Something Senate

John Clark, Eaton, Ohio

The 51 percent solution

Lance Cooper, Brewster, N.Y.

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