Posted on 11/19/2016 9:07:35 AM PST by BulletBobCo
Senate Democrats are not going to be able to block Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions bid to become attorney general. And they cant do much to stop Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo from assuming the helm of the CIA.
And they have only themselves to thank for it.
Thats because exactly three years ago, the Democratic Senate majority led by Harry Reid (Nev.) rammed through controversial rules fundamentally changing the way the Senate does business. They unleashed in November 2013 whats called the nuclear option allowing senators to approve by a simple majority all presidential appointments to the executive branch and the judiciary, with a big exception for Supreme Court justices.
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Yeah me neither
Guess I remembered the articles where he was going to return the senate to the way it was before.
My bad....misremembered
Can’t Trump approve and appoint his candidate if congress goes into recess without a vote?
Use their own rules against them. Especially Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals #4.
4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
Like my daddy would say; what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
There have to be a few DINOs as well.
For the remaining items (SCOTUS and legislation) the GOP should change the filibuster rules to their original configuration, that is one or more people trying to talk the bill or appointment to death, to be overridden by a 2/3 vote. It will be fun to watch the leftoids make spectacles of themselves by reading the phone book or some Dr. Seuss book.
"Republicans to join Democrats"...you mean, Republicans to reach across the aisle? I can think of some
Karma is sweet
Don’t the libhole demonic rats believe they are smarter than God? If so, they should have known their nukyular option was gonna come back and bite them in the donk-ass.
When Reid forced that change I recall asking “is this a good idea? How will you react when your political opponent has this power?”
Some may become DINOs. 23 Dem senate seats are up in 2018, 11 in states won by Trump.
You cannot say God Bless to Harry Reid!
Can you? LOL :-)
I was hoping his head would explode if I did! ;)
Don’t count chickens before they hatch. We have more than three Rino senators that can bolt at any time. Notice the MaCinsane bleat today on waterboarding.
He's against John Bolton for Sec. of State
“I would be hesitant to change rules, just because, if you think longer term, you have to think about how your political opponents would use those rules when they again take power.”
They’d change the rules anyway. They will fight dirty for their agenda, wile Repubs will give theirs up, in order to be nice and honorable
I thought I had heard the R’s were going to put the rules back in place?
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