Senate GOP vows payback if Reid triggers nuclear option on nominees

[babylonsister]

Blatant and threatening...


Senate GOP vows payback if Reid triggers nuclear option on nominees
By Alexander Bolton - 06/18/13 03:03 PM ET


Senate Republicans are threatening to use the nuclear option to repeal ObamaCare and make other major legislative changes if Democrats use it to confirm judicial nominations.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a former member of the GOP leadership close to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), has assembled an agenda Republicans would pursue with the nuclear option if they retake control of the upper chamber.

It includes repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act, converting all federal education spending into school vouchers and scholarships to middle-income and low-income children, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling and repealing the estate tax.

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“A vote to end the filibuster is a vote to complete Yucca Mountain,” said Alexander. “If we have 51 votes, we can order the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a license. We can order the Department of Energy to build it, and we can fund it.”

Senate Democrats are mulling the nuclear option to break a logjam of President Obama’s judicial and executive branch nominees. The controversial tactic would be used to eliminate filibusters of nominees by changing Senate rules with a simple majority vote.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/306275-senate-gop-vows-payback-if-reid-triggers-nuclear-option-on-nominees

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Call their bluff, Senator Reid!

Give 'em a taste of their own medicine!

[MjolnirTime]

2. They GOP don't need to threaten. They will do it. Go for it, Harry.

[hedda_foil]

7. You bet they'll do it. And not just for judicial nominations.

For the love of FDR, Harry, do it now!

[madamesilverspurs]

3. In other words,

if we don't give them carte blanche to make our lives miserable, they'll retaliate by making our lives miserable.

At least they're finally admitting it.

[a kennedy]

4. Oh, I saw turtle face and hedy lamar this morning on C-SPAN talking of this change in procedure....

Ugh......

[railsback]

5. Well, I'd say the GOP is feeling pretty confident right now

Considering the jump in the gasoline and matches market.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. Nuclear option to repeal Obamacare?

Wouldn't Obama still need to sign that bill?

[corkhead]

10. Another in the series of literally dozens of harmless republicon "repeal Obamacare" circle-jerks

:yawn:

[sigmasix]

8. they're going to do it anyway... NT

[tridim]

9. They just don't care at all. Their platform is, "Fuck You America".

The GOP is almost dead.

[vi5]

11. Gee, I wonder how Reid/Dems will respond?

I wonder. Perhaps with a strong and vigorous show of streng.......hahahahahahahahahhahaha.....I couldn't even finish typing that without laughing.

[msongs]

12. nobody is afraid of harry and his white house buddy nt

[blkmusclmachine]

13. Harry Reid

[Tx4obama]

14. There must be a legal term for what the Republicans are doing...

... the legal definitions of Extortion and Blackmail do not seem to fit...

But surely there must be some word I'm missing besides 'being assholes'.

[WCGreen]

15. So they have given us the platform they intend to use if the attain control...

Just keep talking Mitch and see how your incumbents do in the next election.