Pray for Terri.
This would great - would make the Liberals look even more ridiculous and it would shut down the Senate! They couldn't enact any stupid laws while this is happening. Can we get the Senate shutdown for the next few years?
Of course one thing that hasn't been tried is to make them actually filibuster the old fashioned way: make them talk non-stop 24/7. Don't let them get away with having 41 votes against cloture, make them actually continue the 'debate'.
Just think of the sound-bites we could accumulate for use against them in their next campaign.
OH Please Please Please, democWaps,, Shut down the Senate,, Please Please Please!!! (/evil grin) :)
Yak, yak, yak, yak, yak.... I'll believe it when I see it.
Only time will tell if the Republicans have FINALLY seen the light. I have my doubts, but I hope they prove me wrong.
I hope they do this. There's not much point in having power (of numbers) if you aren't prepared to use it.
After Terri, capital punishment for minors, and gay marriage, I'm totally fed up with our current judiciary. We really need to bring out the big guns.
For 200 years there was never a partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee, and almost none for any other judicial appointment. For 200 years, regardless of the occasional changes in the filibuster rule, the Senate consistently acted by majority only, concerning judges.
The change to filibustering judges is only ten years old, invented by modern Democrats to prevent the President from making his judicial nominations under the Constitution.
Congressman Billybob
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True but the Super majority hasn't to my understanding.
The constitution requires a SIMPLE majority vote of 51 votes..
I know that the super majority vote for Judicial Nominations is a relatively new.. within the last 40 years or so..
Can anyone confirm when they enacted the SM for nominations ???
Does anyone else feel that we are finally in a war, cultural etc & this is possibly gong to divide this nation like never before. I have the feeling since this last election that no more of any discussion with a liberal. It's take um out - take no prisioners. That goes for congress & these RINOs.
The House once had similar rules as the Senate now does. They changed them over well 100 years ago. It didn't cause the implosion of the Republic, neither will changing the Senate rules so that the majority actually will be able to rule.
...talk is cheap...just do it.
If anyone shut down the senate, would we even notice?
I reiterate my wager, made in a previous thread, that no one took me up on. I will offer 10-1 odds, up to $100 (proceeds to be donated to FR by the loser in the name of the winner) that the Pubs don't have the sack for this.
Republicans should stop calling this the "nuclear option" and start calling it the Constitutional Option". Nowhere does it say the President needs a 2/3 majority for appointments of judges.
...and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.