While I have no doubt that the esteemed members of the US Senate are more intimately familiar with the procedural rules of the Senate than I will ever be, it still seems to me a netroots project is in order.
While we're all cheering Senator Reid's deft move sending the Senate to a closed session, forcing the Plamegate issue, and generally making Frist look like a doofus, we all know that -- assuming the Senate Dems keep their newfound nerve -- a filibuster attempt will (likely) be ultimately overridden by the "nuclear option."
But as today's news makes clear, there are many, many ways to throw a wrench in to the wheels of cultural regression, and I believe generating buzz around specific ideas or possibilities in the blogosphere could add momentum and muscle (and perhaps a little extra nerve) to Democratic Senators' potential for retaliation if and when the Repubs stomp on the "gang of 14 agreement" and piss all over the Senate's tradition and history.
The rules can be found here. It seems to me right at the get-go, in Rule IV, sec 1 paragraph b (am I saying that right?) there is a good one.
It reads:
(b) the reading of the Journal shall
not be suspended unless by unanimous consent; and when any
motion shall be made to amend or correct the same, it shall be
deemed a privileged question, and proceeded with until disposed
of.
Can you imagine every session being started with a demand for a full reading of the journal, replete with endless motions to modify for targetted sound-bite-style changes which must be acted upon?
What else we got? Anybody? Everybody?