You need reasons: Lawrence Tribe, Mark Tushnet, Larry Kramer, Michael Perry, Akhil Amar, Ronald Dworkin, Susan Estrich, Erwin Chemerinsky, Pamela Kargan, Drew Days III, Richard Fallon, Lani Guinier, Kenneth Karst, Frank Michelman, Eric Schnapper.   These law professors currently haven't got a snowball chance in hell of being a federal judge, and they know it.  

If the nuclear option is the rule, we get our judges in. PERIOD.  No Judiciary Committee bottlenecks, no stalling, no "holds".  Just some old fashioned "You had your turn, now its mine" styled revenge.  This list is only the tip of the iceberg; every liberal federal judge, excorciated by the Political and Religious Right, can be nominated by a Democratic President for Appellate Courts and the Supreme Court.

Normally, I'd be in the trenches fighting this maneuver with all my might.  But the Democrats have never shown the ability to play really political hardball. If they were, there would be full page newspaper ads, tv commercials and radio spots accusing virtually every Republican member of the Senate of being a hippocrite.  Local Democratic pols would be feeding local news the line by line, nominee by nominee, filibuster by filibuster actions taken by their Senators and asking (to the camera), "Why did he filibuster then, if he thought it was unfair, undemocratic, and obstructionist?"

I've told my Senators (Santorum and Specter)that I support this maneuver.  I want liberals (real ones) to get our turn.  With the nuclear option, liberal judges will not get run through the political meat grinder, there won't be a lengthy media circus, there will be little or no opportunity for political backlash.  You run the nominee by your party ahead of time, ensure you have 51 votes, and them its full steam ahead to confirmation.  In fact, the Judicary Committee's role will be unnecessary

Let's get serious and stop worrying about the nuclear option and focus on what's important: getting the additional 6 seats we need in the Senate in 2006 and electing a Democratic President in 2008.  And if the REpublicans rediscover tradition and the "original intent" of the Framers to use the Senate to prevent Tyranny by the Majority, we need to parade out their words, floor votes, fundraising, and political activism to get the nuclear option passed, reprint it all in the Congressional Record,deliver copies to their Seante office and invite them to eat their words.