Harry Reid Nukes Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) used the "nuclear option" yesterday to eliminate the free and open debate of judicial nominations.

Harry Reid did this because he knows Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will let him get away with it.

The only way to deter a nuclear attack is to make it clear that the response will be equally devastating. Unfortunately, weakness is the only message Mitch McConnell has sent the Democrats on this issue.

He's been so ineffective that even his allies in the mainstream media are mocking him with political cartoons like the one shown here from Politico.

This is the fourth time Mitch McConnell has allowed Harry Reid to chip away at the freedom to debate in the Senate.

In 2011, Harry Reid used the threat of the "nuclear option" to prevent senators from forcing the public reading of legislation. Mitch McConnell supported the change while conservatives like Jim DeMint (R-SC) opposed it.

In January of this year, Harry Reid used the threat of the "nuclear option" again to shorten debate on legislation and to limit the number of amendments that can be offered by senators. Mitch McConnell supported this change too while conservatives like Ted Cruz (R-TX) opposed it.

Then in July, Harry Reid used the threat of the "nuclear option" a third time to confirm President Obama's radical nominees. Mitch McConnell backed down yet again, allowing every single nominee through, including Richard Cordray for the new Dodd-Frank agency, Gina McCarthy to head the EPA, Tom Perez as Secretary of Labor, two people of Obama's choosing to fill the vacant slots at the National Labor Relations Board, and Todd Jones to head ATF even though he was at the scene of the "Fast and Furious" scandal.

Each time Mitch McConnell capitulated, he said it would save the filibuster, but each time it encouraged Harry Reid to go even further. Now radical judicial nominees will sail through on a simple majority vote.

When asked by reporters yesterday what he would do to respond, Mitch McConnell said it wasn't time for "reprisal" but instead time to "be sad."

That's it? Republicans are just sad? If the roles were reversed, Harry Reid and the Democrats would have shut down the Senate by blocking all legislation and by objecting to all procedural requests.

Mitch McConnell must be replaced by conservative Matt Bevin in Kentucky's May 20 Republican primary election.

We need leaders in Washington who have the courage to fight for our principles and to defend our freedoms.

Matt Bevin is not only a courageous conservative, he's also a more compelling candidate with a better chance of defeating the Democrat in this race.

Mitch McConnell knows how to play hard ball, but he only does it against conservatives. When it comes to dealing with liberals, he capitulates. He's helped them pass bailouts, debt limit increases, tax hikes, and funding for Obamacare.

If we want to change the leadership in Washington, we need to help Matt Bevin replace Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.

Harry Reid's heavy-handed and anti-Constitutional action yesterday to solidify and enforce the Executive Branch's intrusions on individual liberty bears close scrutiny by all, Democrats, Republicans and all, who treasure individual liberty for themselves and future generations.

America's Constitution set the rules and limits for such power-thirsty individuals who might combine with others of their stripe to undermine "the People's" Constitution.

Below are the words of James Madison:

"Of the Declaration of Rights by the Assembly of France, Madison said:

"While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it should be accompanied by a Declaration of Duties. The observation discovered a mind that reflected, and it only erred by not reflecting far enough. A Declaration of Rights is, by reciprocity, a Declaration of Duties also. Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
"The three first articles are the base of Liberty, as well individual as national; nor can any country be called free whose government does not take its beginning from the principles they contain, and continue to preserve them pure; and the whole of the Declaration of Rights is of more value to the world, and will do more good, than all the laws and statutes that have yet been promulgated.
"As it was impossible to separate the military events which took place in America from the principles of the American Revolution, the publication of those events in France necessarily connected themselves with the principles which produced them. Many of the facts were in themselves principles; such as the declaration of American Independence,
"However true, therefore, it may be, that the judicial department, is, in all questions submitted to it by the forms of the Constitution, to decide in the last resort, this resort must necessarily be deemed the last in relation to the authorities of the other departments of the government; not in relation to the rights of the parties to the constitutional compact, from which the judicial as well as the other departments hold their delegated trusts. On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert for ever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.
"The truth declared in the resolution being established, the expediency of making the declaration at the present day, may safely be left to the temperate consideration and candid judgment of the American public. It will be remembered that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others. And a fair comparison of the political doctrines not unfrequent at the present day, with those which characterized the epoch of our revolution, and which form the basis of our republican constitutions, will best determine whether the declaratory recurrence here made to those principles, ought to be viewed as unseasonable and improper, or as a vigilant discharge of an important duty. The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind; and at no time perhaps more necessary than at the present."

- James Madison

McConnel and the GOP in the senate should block every single thing Reid wants to do every single day until he changes this back

I dont know how this dumba$$ weakling let him get away with it in the first place.

Reid wanted to change the rules from position A to position B. In order to change the rules he needed 2/3’s vote. But whatever rules committe there is said his motion was ‘out of order’.

Reid appealed this ‘out of order’ ruling and won.

To me, all this means is that it was not ‘out of order’ - not that he automatically gets B with simple majority

They voted on the ‘out of order’ ruling- not the rule change from A to B.

They pulled this same type of fraud to pass Obamacare.

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