Because we NEED that 9th justice seated to move along with the Judicial process.
Invoking the nuclear option screws the Dems enough, esp. when a future justice is nominated.
If McConnell is talented enough to manage the news cycle, I would say it would be good for the President. But I am not confident McConnell is talented enough.
Set it up so they have to work over the entire month of April. No time to go home!
Not the same thing.
This is about a cloture vote, not reading Dr. Seuss.
That’s how I would like it. Remove the two-track rule that allows the Senate to do other business while the filibuster lies around in the background. That way, Schumer will have to read from Green Eggs and Gefilte Fish while other Dims will be singing Ramones Greatest Hits to stop Gorsuch from being confirmed.
In the meantime, the GOP can spread the news far and wide that this spectacle is happening because Gorsuch does not agree with the Dims all the time.
PING!
It is not the type of filibuster you are thinking about. In the end my guess is cloture will play out
It is not the type of filibuster you are thinking about. In the end my guess is cloture will play out
That has always been my opinion since before this situation.
The Republicans always fold at the threat of a filibuster and never make them actually do the filibuster.
The thing is that Harry Reid was right. There is no justification whatsoever for filibustering judicial nominations at all ever. The founding fathers never intended for it to be a thing. It should never be allowed. The fact that the Dems are even contemplating it shows what contemptible left wing loons they really are.
Now, if they want to say that a filibuster for other things means a real “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” filibuster, then yes I’m all for that. Why should they be allowed to say they are filibustering without going through the effort of actually doing it?
Whaddaymean?
The Democrat’s filibuster is every bit as real as Jesse Jackson’s last hunger strike, what he called a “rolling hunger strike.”
You remember, the one where they had a few hundred activists and SJW college students who committed to a “rolling hunger strike,” where each participant agreed to not eat anything for an hour, then “pass” the hunger strike to the next activist, who similarly agreed to not anything for an hour, and so the hunger strike went for three or four days.
The MSM tried to take it seriously, but I don’t think the reaction of the voting public was very enthusiastic.
The Democrats have already nuked the filibuster by using it for petty partisan bickering. It was not intended to deny a president simply because you don’t like him and the Supreme Court would simply cease to exist if both parties played stupid games like this.
NO NO and NO.
We need Gorsuch NOW, without delay.
Screw em. Pull the trigger and let em know that Reid opened the can. Then shove the whole thing down their throats.
By picking a judge with impeccable credentials who got all Dem votes the last time around, Trump is demonstrating on the live stage what Democrats really are.
The next one, perhaps a Ginsburg replacement, may not be as easy if they had not decided to filibuster and deny the seat.
They’ll really split a gut on the next one if he fills it the same.
Trump is like honey badger when it comes to the whining and screaming by the left.
Honey badger doesn’t care, he just does his work.
“”Make Schumer stay up all night.””
Come on - then we’d have to see him cry again because he’s tired. No thanks.. GADS! There are so many of them who just need to disappear off the face of the earth and spare us this distress/anguish/disgust/anger/revulsion....more?
Filibuster is not lthe other side holding the floor to prevent a vote.
A filibuster is requiring 60 votes to pass.
You’re confusing the actual filibuster (such as what Ted Cruz did in the Senate.
However, that is not the “filibuster” that is happening in Congress over the Justice of the Supreme Court appointee, Gorsuch.
These are two different events.
Go to Rush Limbaugh’s website, and you might find an item about it .. because Rush was talking about it this morning.
I concur with the thought that the ought to be made to actually filibuster. It will be hysterical to watch the ossified, 70 and 80 year olds try to keep their mouths moving well after their bedtimes while deliberately blocking a supremely qualified jurist from sitting on the SCOTUS.
Let America see again, five months later, exactly how destructive the liberals are.