So to sum up: they want to make sure that only the Democrats were able to stack the judiciary by using the "Nuclear Option."
Why, again, do we need the Senate?
As usual, the GOPe is more worried about being called names by the Rats than governing.
lol
so basically republicans need 60 votes to govern, but democrats only need 50?
WTH!!!!
Does anybody get it that political whores will promise anything to get elected and then do exactly as they please once in office?
Nothing that is said within 6 months of an election is likely to have any real meaning in the scheme of things. Repeating this drivel is the only hope for opponents to suppress the vote.
If we intend to have a fight, we had better win it at the primary because pissing on the candidate who won is only going to give the really bad guys a helping hand. If you can’t win the primary, then you may not have had much of a candidate or platform.
Many here predicted that this would happen when the Rats changed the filibuster rule to enable them to pack the courts with extremists liberals.
60 votes to confirm judges seems like a good thing to me...given the character of the current dictator in chief, and the fact that he has 2 years as a lame duck with which to further pack the courts with Constitution haters.
I’m all for changing the rules back. BUT,ONLY AFTER the GOP gets to push through an equal number of nominees as the ‘Rats have gotten under Reid’s scheme.
“So to sum up: they want to make sure that only the Democrats were able to stack the judiciary by using the “Nuclear Option.””
It is to protect against the 5 crossover republicans. By going with 60, there will be no way Obama gets anyone through. Then when Cruz takes over with a republican senate, you go back to 50.
What an idiot the author of the article is. He knows the GOP will have no leverage because, as usual, they give it away.
They couldn’t even stop Holder from being AG when they had the Senate back then. And he’s the worse AG we’ve ever had.