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Dole appeared on Fox News, May 5 and said this:

I think the Democrats are going to have to accept the fact that we are the majority power and we are supposed to lead the Senate and not follow the minority.

The former Senate Majority Leader's April 27 opinion piece in the New York Times is here. Colin McNickle has a like-minded opinion piece in Pittsburgh's Tribune-Review today:

It is widely expected that Republicans this week will use the Constitution to counter the Democrats' obstruction of President Bush's judicial nominations.

Fully supported by Article I, Section 5 -- "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, ... " -- the GOP-controlled Senate will use a parliamentary tactic, a rules change, to counter a parliamentary tactic, the filibuster, to allow court nominees the up or down floor vote they deserve.

And with the move, the constitutional mandate of "advice and consent" will be honored and fulfilled instead of mocked and perverted. Democrats were exposed for what they are -- reprobates of the republic -- when they refused the Republicans' offer of 100 hours of floor debate.

Though in the majority, Republicans have been reluctant to lead. They'll show leadership this week by rescuing the country from the tyranny of the minority. (If by chance they don't, there will be hell to pay from a growing faction within the party.)

Emphasis added. :-)