Posted on 11/21/2013 8:45:41 AM PST by ken5050
All the action today appears to be in the Senate. They just finished voting on a motion to proceed to confirm one of Obama's nominees to the DC Court of Appeals, and it failed to get the necessary 60 votes to proceed. This is the 3rd nominee that the GOP has blocked, and Reid had threatened to go nuclear, to change the rules by a simple MAJORITY vote. Before that could happen, McConnell moved that the Senate adjourn until 5PM..a privileged motion which must be voted on. The roll call is underway.
The caption on CSAN says they’re voting on appealing the new filibuster rule.
It's been ugly for years now.
Republicans should just shut down business as much as they can and walk away. No votes on anything, period. Start campaigning in January.
Yes, it is. They did it. And we will pay for it for years to come.
The GOP was in a much stronger position on this issue when the recess appointments were involved. Too bad McCain gave that card away for NOTHING.
The bottom line is GOP is unwilling to do the heavy lifting required to stay on message and engage the Dems on this issue. It really seems like the Senate GOP think it’s not a battle worth going to the mat over. The Dems do and that’s why they win.
it was put into effect to protect the minority groups from tyranny of a simple majority.....
Way past time for war.
The GOP needs to go Alinsky and make it personal. Hit the Dems 24/7 with the Vitter amendment. Talk about fairness, blah, blah, blah. Reid and the Dems hate it when the GOP hits them with a bit of populism.
The question NOW is which supreme court judge will they knock off.
Yep.
Decision of the chair (that simple majority is sufficient for [some] judicial nominations) just now upheld. 54 AYE votes. Now a cloture motion that will pass on a simple majority.
Supposedly this does not apply to SCOTUS appointments.
OKay, they’re now stacking the DC Court.
Communist bastards.
The Senate operated on simple majorty for everything until 1802. In Wilson's era (19-teens), the Senate implemented cloture to bypass any given minority group that refused to vote, at the time the issue was a treaty. The original cloture threshold was 2/3rds of those present and voting, which was changed to 3/5th of Senators duly sworn around 1950 or so.
The founders had no intention for supermajority except for treaties, veto override, and amendment of the constitution.
Then I am thrilled to get back to the founders intent. I am sick of new rules that are not in the Constitution. Thank you for that great post.
The reason that Obama is trying to stack this under worked DC court of appeals is because this is the court that reviews their regulatory agenda. So, if a lower court rules that the EPA has no power to pass a carbon tax, a stacked DC court of appeals will over turn that ruling.
I know, and furthermore, the DC Court doesn’t need any judges!!!
Unless they decide to do this one more time...
They have just shown they are capable of anything. ANYTHING...to get what they want. And if they want the SC, they will get it. This is the shot that killed whatever meaning it ever had. It’s dangerous and will become even moreso. reid will gloat and the anger will build. And there is no stopping it now.
It’s official. We are at war. Make no mistake.
Quite frankly perhaps the minority should just work to become the majority instead of making up rules that the Founders did not want. The original Constsution is all we should use PERIOD!
Lamar and Mitch talk after the horse left the barn. Clueless.
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