Posted on 03/27/2017 10:09:48 AM PDT by davikkm
Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware predicted Monday that Republicans will “almost certainly” have to resort to the “nuclear” option to approve the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held four days of hearings on the Gorsuch nomination, doesn’t envision Democrats crossing party lines to vote in favor of President Trump’s nominee. “He will get an up or down vote. Sen. Schumer, our minority leader, has said it is going to be a 60-vote margin, and I doubt he is going to get 60 votes. The question then, Joe, becomes: What do we?” Mr. Coons told host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Mr. Coons said lingering divisions between the two parties have poisoned the debate over Judge Gorsuch. He said Democrats are mad that Senate Republicans refused to hold hearings on Judge Merrick Garland, then-President Barack Obama’s pick to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Then do it straight away. Stop wasting time and taxpayer money.
Is just before the next election an option?
This! I have been saying it all along. Make them get up and talk for as long as they can go. Then vote. The more they talk the more idiotic they sound.
Pubs should have done this weeks ago...no reason to let the assholes belittle this man. I just hope he’s not another Roberts!!!
She’ll never die!
They have nothing to stop it.....I just hope the republicans don’t stop the court from going right!!!
Exactly...do what they do when they get power....wield it!!!
So let me get this straight — the GOP is going to go nuclear to put a crypt-lefty squish like Gorsuch on the Court. Great. Just great.
Yeah!! Healthcare would be a slam dunk...wait!!!
Correct, she was really pushing it with her comments. So many people in positions of great authority and responsibility publicly shaming themselves before God...
>>Dems are being very dumb here. If they force Rs to go nuclear this time, when the next one opens up they have nothing stopping it which would definitely tilt the court significantly more right.<<
The Dems are pinned down by their own Leftist base. That’s the price they’re paying for tacking left so hard the last election. Now if they vote for Gorsuch, their own base will turn on them.
Hopefully the consequence will be that the Senate cans the filibuster rule altogether so we can finally start getting something done again.
he was warned by his own side that he was doing so. He didn’t care.
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He knew he wouldn’t be around to suffer the consequences.
Nuclear? I would go Thermonuclear. I would go straight to the HYDORGEN Bomb.
WHEN the Democrats, heaven forbid, retake the Senate they will show no mercy.
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