Chrissy forgets that many of those senators live in states that Trump won overwhelmingly last year.
I’ll have to say, if McCain, Graham, and Rubio pull one of their classic antics, I want them GONE!
Go nuclear.
If the dems threaten a filibuster, make them actually do it. make them stand on the floor of the senate and talk non-stop. then call for a cloture vote and vote him in.
An empty threat should hold no weight.
Shut down the government until the Dems scream for mercy.
Gee...they voted unanimously for him as an Appellate Judge. What’s changed???
Apparently The Spitter hasn’t heard of the Reid Nuclear Option.....
I think the dems will blink and back off a filibuster vote....
Gorsuch simply puts the court back to a 5 - 4
When a justice retires or dies, it’s likely to be a liberal...
I think the dems will die on the hill to try and stop from having a 6 -3 court...
Watching Nancy Pelosi on CNN. A Evil Ghoul, and proponent of Mass murder. Every question from the Town Hall have been about abortion.
The Playbook is from the 90’s and it will not play with the Country.
Oh Boy. A Muslim pop’s up. How predictable.
Trump nomination for SC goes thru confirmation like a knife thru butter.
Protest are breaking out! I’m so happy about that. It does that this garbage isn’t spontaneous. Normal people aren’t, in 1 hour, up in arms about this
Getting the popcorn out, the longer they drag it out the more their foolishness will be on display?
If they go filibuster, then the Republicans can go nuclear.
I would think they would be “reasonable” on this choice so they can pretend that their filibuster of the next one would be justified. But then these democrats are acting like 2 year olds. They will force the Republicans to go nuclear. Good. Bring it on, idiots.
The thrill is gone, eh Tingles?
Mitch McConnell will stun many, many, Freepers once again.
He will go Nuclear if need be.
I fully e,9ect the filibuster for the next 3 weeks but, eventually the Republicans will Institute The Nuclear option and “That” will become the standard each and every time from now on.
The Republicans better not fold to the threat of a filibuster.
Make them do a real filibuster.
And when they get tired, vote.
The following D and I U.S. Senators are up for re-election in 2018. Ten of them represent states that Trump won.
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin (D)
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D)
Washington Senator Maria Cantwell (D)
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin (D)
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey Jr. (D)
Delaware Senator Tom Carper (D)
Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly (D)
California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D)
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D)
New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich (D)
North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D)
Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono (D)
Virginia Senator Tim Kaine (D)
Maine Senator Angus King (I)
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar (D)
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D)
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D)
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez (D)
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy (D)
Florida Senator Bill Nelson (D)
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I)
Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow (D)
Montana Senator Jon Tester (D)
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D)
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D)
How on God’s green earth are we ever going to get this government functioning again?
My guess is that the Democrats ultimately don’t filibuster, based on straightforward political calculations: There are at least half a dozen Democratic Senators from red states who are up for re-election in 2018 and will be on the hot seat. Although Democrat constituents in their states will demand a filibuster, doing so without any good justification other than refusing to approve any conservative Supreme Court appointee from Trump will make them extremely likely to be defeated. And if even a few Democrats refuse to filibuster, then suddenly Gorsuch has “bipartisan support”, which makes it just that much harder for the remaining Democrats to justify a filibuster. The only way out of this trap is for Chuck Schumer to himself pull the plug on the filibuster, and absorb the heat for that decision. Then the red state Democrats can’t be blamed for going along with Chuck.
Ultimately Schumer has no other choice. Without a plausible excuse, other than ideology, for blocking Trump’s nominee, Republicans will resort to the nuclear option and blame it on the Democrats’ intransigence. So the Democrats would accomplish nothing except to badly damage their most vulnerable Senators in the process (by forcing those Senators to take a stand which will hurt them no matter which way they go), and make it easier to confirm Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee.
But first there will be an enormous amount of posturing by Schumer and other Democrats, to try to prove to their far-left base that they put up a good fight before accepting the inevitable.
Popcorn manufacturers are going to make a fortune.