[Impy]

I don’t know, a large number of Obama nominees might find the 4 necessary RINO votes to be confirmed.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“I don’t know, a large number of Obama nominees might find the 4 necessary RINO votes to be confirmed.”

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But with Grassley running the Judiciary Committee, they wouldn’t get to the floor in the first place. While we’re in a clear majority, it makes no sense to bring back the filibuster for nominations. When the next Republican wins the White House—hopefully in 2016)—there will be a GOP Senate majority (the 2000 elections will never be repeated), and allowing him to fill all of those judgeships with a simple-majority vote will be crucial; we don’t want a repeat of the Gang of 12 or whatever it was that kept blocking qualified conservative nominees.

[cotton1706]

“I don’t know, a large number of Obama nominees might find the 4 necessary RINO votes to be confirmed.”

The power to bring nominees to the floor rests with the Majority Leader, and as far as I know, there’s nothing similar to the discharge petition to force a vote if the Majority Leader decides to let the nominees stew (or the chairman of the appropriate committee for that matter).

Of course the problem with this is that McConnell is easily swayed by the democrats, AND the RINOS.

I’m just tired of this “let’s make this difficult for a republican president to get judges, etc. but easy for the democrats.” I didn’t see John McCain and his cronies forming a Gang of 14 when Harry Reid changed the filibuster rule, because his goal in 2005 was to prevent Bush’s judges, not “preserving the process.”

Fair is fair. 51 for thee, well then 51 for me!