So what you’re saying is we can forget about getting conservative justices on the court no matter who is president because Pat Leahy will be Chairman of Judiciary. If that’s the case what difference does it make who is president?
The proposal wasn’t to do away with the filibuster. The proposal was to do away with the agreement that a filibuster could just be announced to be in effect, rather than have Senators on the floor talking as was the tradition for more than 125 years.
The idea being, the Democrats weren’t ready to have the Senate shut down to block judges. Republicans were ready to shut it down to get them approved. The gang of 14 stopped them from returning to the traditional filibuster.
Going back to real filibusters is an idea that should be implemented for all filibusters. The lazy louts in the Senate just don’t want to work that hard.
“...So what you’re saying is we can forget about getting conservative justices on the court no matter who is president because Pat Leahy will be Chairman of Judiciary. If that’s the case what difference does it make who is president?...”
So what you’re saying is that somehow Obama would even nominate Conservative Justices?
“..The proposal wasn’t to do away with the filibuster. The proposal was to do away with the agreement that a filibuster could just be announced to be in effect, rather than have Senators on the floor talking as was the tradition for more than 125 years....”
The Senate Rules regarding a filibuster would have to have been amended before the Senate was called into session, once that precedent was breached, what would keep any other group of Senators from doing the same thing?
“...Going back to real filibusters is an idea that should be implemented for all filibusters. The lazy louts in the Senate just don’t want to work that hard....”
Agree there, the farce of the rollaway beds being brought into the Senate chambers was amusing.