On his website, Lott explained his proposed anti-filibuster rules. He didn't use the word "Democrats," but who were the " few senators" who were using or threatening to use the filibuster to block Bush nominations?
Mississippians have sent me to Washington to get results, not to make statements. That’s why I want to change Senate rules so that we can put federal judges on the bench. Senate rules are stymieing results for the American people – creating scores of judicial vacancies and keeping good men, women and minority judges off the bench. It’s time for change. Right now, a few Senators are absolutely abusing the rules, employing the filibuster provision to keep judicial nominees from even being brought to the Senate floor for a fair up-or-down vote. Though they depict any rule change as drastic – a "nuclear" option – it is this minority of Senators who already have gone "nuclear," drastically altering Senate tradition.