Reid Mulls Filibuster of Judicial Nominees

Associated Press ^ | May 3, 2006 | LAURIE KELLMAN

[maine-iac7]

actually the Senate can change the rules anytime they want on a simple majority vote.

time to FREEP all of our pubbie reps! And don't be polite about it. Send 'em a box of Jello and tell 'em to put some spine into it (better just send a PHOTO of Jello. These days, you'd be sitting in jail for a couple years while they determined if or not the Jello powder was a safe substance.

[Lancey Howard]

Everyone knows if the numbers were reversed, the RATS would have used the "nuclear option" long ago and you'd never have read much about it, except praise, in the MSM.

That is absolutely correct.

For example, the scumbag liberal newsrooms are constantly bemoaning the situation in some states (See: California) where taxes can only be raised by a super-majority vote of the legislature.

On the other (hypocritical) hand they would simply LOVE a state where taxes could only be REDUCED by a super majority vote, because that would "protect government" from politicians who want to "pander to taxpayers" (that exact phrase was used in a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial).

[SisBoombah]

Reid himself is tiresome...

[cookcounty]

"Reid said he had read in an online article that Boyle had bought stock in General Electric midway through presiding over a pension lawsuit against the company. Then Boyle ruled against the plaintiff's claims of long-term and pension disability benefits.

An "online article?" If we go by every "online article," Harry Reid should be doing 75 years in Leavenworth.

[RWR8189]

No it takes a supermajority to outright change Senate rules mid-session.

That's the whole point of the "nuclear option"

Frist could have adopted new rules by majority vote when the 109th Congress first met, but not now.

In order to implement the nuclear option, cloture has to fail, and a point of order must be raised.

[Lancey Howard]

Okay. Thanks for that clarifying info.
I stand corrected.

Regards,
LH

[timydnuc]

When Reid and the RATS start this stuff it usually means that we have another Supreme ready to retire, and they have the inside track. If they have that inside track one can bet the farm that it is a lefty Supreme on the block.

I would say, watch for it during the summer. One more good reason for the 06 elections should be fought for by our side.

[KoRn]

He must be trying to reunite the republican base. This could be a good thing!

[Foolsgold]

Do you think that we could hold a "no demonrat freedom day" and the California Freeps on one side of the border, Nevada freeps on the other and block the northern migration that spends money in his state? NAWWWW

[torchthemummy]

Bingo. This is a tactic that will be used over and over again. Quote some online source, get the LMSM to pickup the story in the form of accusations by Reid or whatever leftist-pol, then later as the truth comes out blame the online source (in this case salon.com.) while maintaining it is the "seriousness of the charge."

It's call have your cake and eat it too.

[California Patriot]

Further evidence of what stupid mugs the Republicans in the "Gang of 14" are.

"Extraordinary circumstances" are very easy to come up with, if you want to. And the Rats want to. The Dim Bulb from Searchlight is just their rat-faced front man.