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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