Nuclear option, here we go.
Democrats successfully blocked Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court from advancing in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, sparking what is expected to be a bitter clash with Republicans over how the chamber confirms high court nominees.
Gorsuch failed to earn the 60 votes needed to end debate on his nomination. In response, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has vowed he will change Senate rules in order to confirm Gorsuch and all future Supreme Court nominees with a simple majority vote.
A final confirmation vote on Gorsuch is not scheduled until Friday, when 52 Republicans and at least three Democrats — from states won by Trump in last year’s election — are expected to vote to have him replace the late Antonin Scalia on the high court.
Nuke em’! Nuke the filibuster once and for all. Repeal Obongocare with 51 votes!
I feel like Library Lady. Imprimus, Hillsdale’s publication, issued a really good piece by Tom McClintock, “How and Why the Senate Must Reform the Filibuster.”
It gives a good, condensed history of the filibuster, major changes and their effects, and what needs to happen in order for the Congress to return to the Constitutional spirit of House and Senate order.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/senate-must-reform-filibuster/
I am glad the dems took this path, forcing the nuke. The fallout will hurt them…badly.
Good! Nuke the fascist. I hope Ginsburger has a stroke this weekend…….
Bitter clash? Remove the 60-vote cloture requirement, confirm the nominee. The losers can spend as much time in front of the cameras as they want, all they will do is create more defectors from their party. No need for the GOP side to be bitter.
Dumb move on the dems part.
YAY!
@Aggie — “Dumb move on the dems part.” LOL! Dumb moves are the only moves the Dems make!
There is so much serious cleanup WORK to do, WGAF if these precious senators get their panties in a bunch? Their own ‘courteous’ rules have hogtied them.
What does the law say? What are the country’s urgent needs? What will improve our dismal situations (pick any one)? What will break gridlock and yield results?
These are the questions the “journalists” and bureaucrats should be obsessed with; even the liberals know that we are on a trend to oblivion that needs to be reversed.
Let’s all quit playing the red team v blue team BS. Those designations have become meaningless long ago: was ANY Bush a conservative aka ‘republican’?
Judge all politicians by their Agenda and their Effectiveness. Grade them and educate the voters. Thus, reward the good ones and remove the bad ones.
RINO’s to cave by then end of the Nightly News.
Who will Trump nominate next?
Don’t know anything about this nominee. But if Senator Merkley if against Gorsuch, Gorsuch must be a more than qualified.
Dummies can do nothing but delay and obfuscate. Take a Gorsuch sized suppository and follow the instructions!
The real solution is to repeal the 17th Amendment so it will no longer be feasible for the wealthy to buy Senate seats.
If a qualified candidate like Gorsuch cannot be confirmed then there will be no new Supreme Court justice until the next Senate in 2019. If then. Dems will block any candidate Trump puts up.
How many RINOS helped out?
Next the budget!
REPEAL obumacare!
All their manipulations went for naught.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Let them get used to losing like sore bitches.