Payback is a beeeech ....... Just two years ago Harry Reid went for the nuclear option eliminated the Filibuster rule of 60-40 votes required to override one so he could pack the super-important DC Circuit Court with extreme leftist Obama nominees that CUCK Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans had been blocking
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/harry-reid-nuclear-option-senateNUCLEAR OPTION TRIGGERED: Dems Make Historic Change To Filibuster Rules
BySahil Kapur
PublishedNovember 21, 2013, 12:35 PM EST 40857 views
After years of threats and warnings, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and his Democratic majority on Thursday executed the "nuclear option" to eliminate the filibuster for executive branch and judicial nominees, except for the Supreme Court.
Fifty-two Democrats voted to scrap the filibuster rule after Republicans again blocked cloture on the nomination of Patricia Millett to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democratic Sens. Carl Levin (MI), Joe Manchin (WV) and Mark Pryor (AR) voted with Republicans to uphold the filibuster and avoid the rules change.
"Republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent President Obama from appointing his executive team or confirming judges," Reid said on the Senate floor. "We're burning wasted hours and wasted days between filibusters. I could say instead we're burning wasted days and wasted weeks between filibusters. ... It's time to change. It's time to change the Senate before this institution becomes obsolete."
Reid invoked the swath of GOP filibusters of cabinet, sub-cabinet and judicial nominees, from Chuck Hagel and Mel Watt to executive positions and Obama's three nominees to the powerful D.C. Circuit court -- Millett, Nina Pillard and Robert Wilkins.
"Is the Senate working now? Can anyone say the Senate is working now?" the majority leader said before the vote. "I don't think so."
The "Reid Rule," as supporters are calling it, does not affect the minority party's ability to filibuster Supreme Court nominees or legislation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fumed at Reid's decision, accusing him of trying to change the subject from Obamacare and "cook up some fake fight over judges." He argued that "by any objective standard, Senate Republicans have been very, very fair to this president" when it comes to letting him appoint his nominees.
"I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: you'll regret this," McConnell said. "And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think."(lol lol lol lol lol....hahhahahahahahahhaha)