I hate term "go nuclear". That term is used by the left to make us look like we are attempting to circumvent the law.
We ought to just call it the "constitutional option". That's what it is.
We ought to just call it the "constitutional option". That's what it is.
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Most certainly. Given that, get with it GOP, and make it happen -- b****slap the obstructionist Dems! HARD!
Agree completely.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn the term was coined by a Democrat. As a metaphor "going nuclear" has about as many negative connotations as you can imagine.
Without repeating all the arguments for demanding a 'straight-up vote"--a democratic process, by the way--or all the quotes from these same Democrats from the mid-`90s, when they wanted a vote, before the "nuclear option", suffice to say that those who control the language control the debate.
It strokes my memory that the term "go nuclear" regarding this topic, originally referred to the tantrum the dems were promising if the Republicans were to go through with the veto restoration. It was the dems and their sycophants in the press who inverted the meaning.
I kinda like calling it the "Byrd Precedent". My lefty aquaintances get real upset when I use that term.