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Repukes want to change the rules if Gorsuch does not get voted in!! They might as well make it that ANYTHING against the law is legal for a Repuke.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)of the Constitution
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)MichMary
(1,714 posts)when the D's had the Senate a few years ago. Kind of gave the R's cover to do it now . . .
Doreen
(11,686 posts)MichMary
(1,714 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts)PsychoBabble
(837 posts)The GOP acts like there was no CAUSE for the EFFECT of the Reid rules change.
Had they not refused to approve almost no judges in Obama admin, the Dem hand would not have been forced to try to get some of them through so that legal justice could proceed.
This was the front end of what later became the Garland fiasco ... i.e. Democrats allowed to do nothing, GOP allowed to do anything. Raw obstruction.
It did NOT happen in a vacuum ...
TrishaJ
(797 posts)filibuster?? They tinkered with this to mean so many votes. Why not hold the floor the way "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" did it?
synergie
(1,901 posts)obstructing EVERYTHING. The repubs have no cover. Do not let them forget why that was needed then and why bullying their way to force through an objectionable judge is a violation of everything.
Stop excusing this behavior, just because they have no shame and the media is their lapdog, we don't need to be bashing Democrats for using the only avenues available to them. What the GOP is doing with the help of Chuck Toad, MSNBC, CNN et al is inexcusable.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Wait, let me correct that, FUCKING BULLSHIT!
The Republicans were blocking all judges. ALL, with the goal of leaving all positions opened. Thus they wanted no federal judges appointed by a Democrat. So, MY AND ALL OTHER DEMOCRATIC VOTES DO NOT COUNT IN THEIR WORLD.
Reid had to break the stalemate to get positions filled.
Now if Reid hadn't done this the ORANGE MOTHER FUCKER would have been appointing SC judges and ALL of the other open positions. AND, and ponder this very carefully, they still would have gone Nuclear at the first opening.
So, I am FUCKING SICK of BULLSHIT, LYING, REPUB MEMES!
THIS IS NOT REID's fault.
And there is a fucking reason Dems lose, and your post highlights it, when repubs shit on us we play the both sides BULLSHIT.
FUCK THAT. Throw the fucking piles of shit, THEY CREATED, right back at them.
TheBlackAdder
(28,073 posts).
If Reid wanted to do it, Garland would have been in already.
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WillowTree
(5,325 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Particularly when you know the other side has "no prayer" to be heard. I vote now that next time the Seahawks are not winning we stop mid game and change the rules. Our government really has no rules or laws that THEY have to follow. At least that's what it looks like to me.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Of course that is just me. It does not matter if the majority is Repukes or Democrat it is just wrong.
sl8
(13,584 posts)with a puke, and I do mean PUKE, dictator, oops, I mean president has the WH they want to do away with their favorite obstruction tool? Okay! They need to pray to whatever God it is they pray we never take back the Senate!!! What next!?! Impeach a liberal justice? At this point it wouldn't surprise me! I think we're going to find out what it was like living during Gilded age, from the poor side.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)These fuckers will rig the game any way they can- and frankly they never pay any consequences for it. And if it's a clean fight they lose every time.
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)CHEATING is their wont.
Initech
(99,914 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Senate Democrats took the dramatic step Thursday of eliminating filibusters for most nominations by presidents, a power play they said was necessary to fix a broken system but one that Republicans said will only rupture it further.
Democrats used a rare parliamentary move to change the rules so that federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments can advance to confirmation votes by a simple majority of senators, rather than the 60-vote supermajority that has been the standard for nearly four decades.