Republicans can always resort to the You-Know-What.....
Posted on 02/01/2017 11:14:36 AM PST by jeannineinsd
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) insisted on Wednesday that Neil Gorsuch, Trump's Supreme Court pick, will need 60 votes to clear the upper chamber.
"We Democrats will insist on a rigorous but fair process. There will be 60 votes for confirmation," he said from the Senate floor. "There will be 60 votes for confirmation."
Trump's nomination of the well-respected conservative jurist is kicking off a high-stakes battle in the Senate. Five progressive lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), have already come out in opposition to Trump's nominee.
Schumer said requiring 60 votes for confirmation of Gorsuch is "the right thing to do."
Though Merkley has said he will filibuster Trump's pick, Schumer is publicly staying on the fence and hasn't explicitly backed a filibuster.
But Schumer is defending his party's push for Gorsuch to get 60 votes, noting that previous Supreme Court nominees have been able to win bipartisan support.
"It was a bar met by each of President Obama's nominations," he said. "In my mind 60 votes is the appropriate way to go whether there is a Democratic president or a Republican president, a Democratic Senate or a Republican Senate."
The back-and-forth over Trump's nominee comes as the president endorsed going "nuclear" and lowering the requirement to a simple majority if Democrats block his nominee.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has repeatedly indicated that he does not want to take what would be a historic step and change Senate rules.
Schumer appeared to push against Trump on Wednesday, arguing that if Gorsuch can't get 60 votes, then the "problem" is with the president's pick.
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suck it, chucky.
I hope they use that option just to throw it in the Libs faces. LOL!
Let them filibuster for a while. Fine. Block closure. It will work against them. But after a point, it'll be time to go nuclear.
I'm all for seeing a bipartisan vote, but not if they're going to block on "principle" just to get their revenge.
“I believe he also says that the moon is made of cheese. I’ll check Snopes...”
Snopes will just tell you you’re an idiot for not believing him.
Is he going to cry again?
Is he going to cry again?
I hope Grahamnesty and McCain and all the rest of the RINOs see that all of their bending over and accommodating the Democrats bought them zero reciprocation of comity.
I just noticed the Spicer’s daily press conference has screens behind him ..MOST EXCELLENT!! ... NO IF YOU really want to tick off the mediawhores...Trump oughta use the opportunity and show the mediapukes this video clip of OVOMIT saying this on Hitlery campaign trail ... Flashback ..Obama said in 2016: you can’t block supreme court justice just because we didn’t win ......please President Trump run that video clip by the mediapukes sitting there and let them choke on it!
Evidently Chuckie doesn’t remember the nuclear option that Reid employed.
Harry Reid said in October that they would end the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees (expecting that Hillary would win and that the Democrats would have a majority in the Senate).
Republicans can always resort to the You-Know-What.....
Depends on you Chuckie. Do it the nice way and you get to keep the filibuster to screw Republicans with on another day. Resistance is, in this case, truly futile.
Pick your poison: Judge Gorsuch or total loss of power.
Oh my god this would silence them to the core show OVOMITS video clip where he says that we cannot have open borders!
Relevant stat of the day:
ONE THIRD of all seats held by Democrats in Congress come from just three states.
California, Massachusetts, New York.
The rest live in Trump Territory, and are on thin ice.
Yes. The Reid Option.
60 votes is what is needed to invoke cloture. Gorsuch may not get 60 votes for installment, but enough demos will cross to permit cloture so that republicans don’t detonate the filibuster - yet.
reporter said to Spicer that two GOP are not voting for Devos. She is the one that is probably going to get the nuke vote
This is hypocritical special pleading on steroids.
Do a Federal audit of the voter rolls and require a state or Fed ID FOR ALL federal elections and that number would shrink substantially IMO?
Kellyanne if you are reading this...” PLEASE SHOW THE VIDEO CLIPS OF OVOMIT saying the same thing Trump is doing at the presser...run them by the mediapukes!!!! PLEASE... visuals go along way! Their selective memory will jolted!!
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