Posted on 11/20/2014 8:31:30 AM PST by C19fan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wants Republicans to reverse the Democrats' filibuster reforms in the new year, arguing that doing so will make it tougher for President Barack Obama to get his nominees approved.
The new system requires just 51 votes to advance executive branch nominees and judges nominated for all courts except the Supreme Court, instead of the 60 votes that were previously required. Democrats approved the reforms after Republicans were refusing to let many of Obama's nominees go through. Half the nominees filibustered in the country's history, for example, were blocked by Republicans during the Obama administration.
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Why? So Obama has to only pick off 4 RINO’s in order to get a nomination through? Instead of 14? And what benefit does that serve?
Well, like him or not, he’s right about this.
As another Poster said, it only takes four RINO’s to cross over now. Restore the Judicial Nominee Filibuster and that number becomes fourteen.
Result, no more Obama Commie Judges.
No you aren’t missing anything. It only took about a minute to read the article but I guess that’s too much to expect anymore.
Better to leave it as it now is (take that rats - how do you like playing goose and gander?) and deal with the existing RINO's than to encourage more of them. There are ways to reign in the renegades.
If they didn’t want to block Obama’s appointees there would be no reason for Harry to change the rules.
“The American people believe Congress is broken. The American people believe the Senate is broken. And I believe they are right,” Reid said Thursday on the Senate floor. “The need for change is so very, very obvious.”
The turning point in the decades-long debate over Senate filibuster rules was Republicans’ decision to block all three of Obama’s latest nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the nation’s second-most-powerful court with vast jurisdiction over federal agencies and regulations.
Because if we win the presidency then it’ll take just 51 to stop debate.
Is this on everything, and not just court nominees?
The Democrats will do whatever they want whenever they regain control of the Senate. Harry Reid has already proven that. It doesn't matter what the Republicans do or do not do to the Democrats.
The only argument made for not using the "nuclear option" when the Democrats were blocking all of Bush's judicial appointments was that it would come back to bite the Republicans if someday the Democrats took over the Senate. Guess what? The Democrats did it anyway.
The Republicans should unilaterally reinstate the filibuster for Obama appointments and unilaterally abolish it for legislation. Call it "Filibuster Reform" and let the Democrats and the lamestream media scream like stuck pigs over the unfairness of it.
YES! That is what I keep saying.
Reid unilaterally abolished the filibuster for all Presidential appointments except Supreme Court appointments. If there had been any vacant Supreme Court seats then he would have abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court seats as well.
Reid didn't touch the rules for filibustering legislation because he didn't want or need to. Reid had no interest in passing any legislation through the Senate because the Republican controlled House would block anything the liberals wanted.
So now the Republicans can push anything down the throats of the Democrats that they want, if only McConnell will grow some balls.
only after Obama leaves
As the old saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Just because Graham said it does not necessarily make it wrong.
If we get the presidency in 2016 and the Republicans hold the Senate, then they can simply abolish the filibuster again. If we get the presidency and the Democrats take back the Senate, then the Democrats will set the rules to whatever gives them the most advantage.
The Senate rules are whatever the Senate Majority Leader wants them to be. Harry Reid has already proven that.
The bottom line is that the Repubs (especially in the Senate) don’t have a clue and have no desire to take it to their friends, the DIMs. Irrespective of this issue of 51 vs. 60, the Repubs should do EVERYTHING to diminish, ridicule and politically destroy the LIBs/DIMs. Stop being their “friends” and stop “reaching across the aisle”. Can’t they see that the DIMs are destroying America? If they do not take an aggressive approach to their politics, they are co-conspirators with these LIB/DIM traitors. All traitors should be arrested, tried and, if guilty, imprisoned.
I don’t think we have the guts to do that. If Graham is worried that some republicans will cross the aisle then what he wants to do makes sense. I thought this pertained to all things, but if it just pertains to judicial nominees, then Graham is right.
Can’t argue with that at all.
That is exactly what they should do, but will not do, because they are government, just as the democrats are government, and their agenda is one and the same.
It is time for this kabuki theater to end.
Our government serves only itself.
Our hope is that Cruz, Lee, Scott, and a few others in the Senate team with Goudy and a few true conservatives to leave the GOP and form a third party. Boehner and McConnell will have to negotiate and come to terms to form a coalition government or return to the minority. Given leadership a real conservative party can likely grow to where it is competitive nationally within 2-3 election cycles much like the Republican Party sprang up in the early 1850’s.
We have no chance of restoring the nation by continuing to elect a house divided and being kicked to the side until the next election.
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