CNN has the story Angry with Obama, GOP threatens political war next year.

Conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, promised the newly re-elected Obama “one hell of a fight” next year if the president forces through his plan for high-income earners to pay more taxes without agreeing to substantive steps to reduce the nation’s chronic federal deficits and debt.

“But there will come a time in February and March where we have to raise the debt ceiling,” Graham said Tuesday on “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN.

“I will not raise the debt ceiling ever again until we get significant entitlement reforms, because if we don’t reform entitlements, we’re going to become Greece,” adding that the situation presented a chance for Obama to lead. “But if he doesn’t lead, there’s going to be one hell of a fight over raising the debt ceiling.”

Do you need any more proof that we need to reform the filibuster rule in the Senate in order to disarm the Republicans who want to wage war against the country?

To take action see my previous post Reform The Filibuster – Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something. If the Republicans see the growth in signatures on this position every time they threaten the country, maybe they will get the message.  In any case, this reform needs to happen.  If the Republicans claim to be conservative and long for the good old days, then they should all be in favor of putting the filibuster rules back to their traditional status.  It was the recent change that made it too easy to stop the Senate with a mere threat of a filibuster that has brought this country to the sorry deadlock in which it finds itself.