My guess is Mitch McConnell will change the cloture rule to require 70 votes to ensure that they can't do anything ever.
This is the person the GOP keeps selecting as their "leader" in the Senate.
Just look at this pitiful jackass.
Posted on 03/26/2017 5:42:51 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s vow to lead a filibuster of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court raises the prospect of a dramatic rules-change that would permanently alter the Supreme Court confirmation process.
The question now is whether there are 51 votes in the Senate Republican caucus to support the nuclear option. While most Republicans seem prepared to back the measure, a handful of consensus-oriented veterans may be recalcitrant to change the rules and further escalate the judicial confirmation wars.
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When has it not been open season on Trump?
Calm down. Judge Gorsuch is already looking at staff and clerks for the upcoming session. The next vacancy is the one they’ll fight over since it will tilt the court.
Well, the filibuster didn’t keep Hack, no judicial experience, Kagan off the Court...
Every single US Senator has a share of the most powerful parliamentary role on the planet - because of the filibuster.
When Hubert Humphrey tried to nuke the filibuster in 1967, with a 68-32 Democrat majority, the ruling of the chair was appealed to the floor - and he only got 46 votes.
The GOP, with 52 votes, will never pass a nuke the filibuster motion.
wouldn’t that then be 50 votes with the VP tie-breaker ?
My guess is Mitch McConnell will change the cloture rule to require 70 votes to ensure that they can't do anything ever.
This is the person the GOP keeps selecting as their "leader" in the Senate.
Just look at this pitiful jackass.
That swamp is very densely populated. I think it’s deeper and dirtier than anyone has imagined. Is the swamp dweller/leader still in Tahiti? Any word on who is with him or what he’s doing there? Any visit from his “family”?
Gorsuch will be sat. I am not even remotely concerned.
There are whispers Clarence Thomas will retire this summer. Won’t be a big uprising over that as we will be replacing conservative with conservative.
When Ginsburg croaks within the next 8 years (and she will) that’s going to be Armageddon.
The debacle over healthcare should be a hard bright warning signal that this party may be over before it starts.
I thought Kennedy was the one retiring this summer.
Sen. Mitch McConnell is the reason Merrick Garland is not the ninth Supreme Court justice.
Every single US Senator has a share of the most powerful parliamentary role on the planet - because of the filibuster.
When Hubert Humphrey tried to nuke the filibuster in 1967, with a 68-32 Democrat majority, the ruling of the chair was appealed to the floor - and he only got 46 votes.
The GOP, with 52 votes, will never pass a nuke the filibuster motion.
There’s blood in the water now. McCain, Lindsey and Flake can take down the Gorsuch nomination by opposing the nuclear option. This is war and the freedom caucus made it clear that they won’t be team players.
“Calm down”
LOL. The dems will unite against Gorsuch and the GOP will split over the nuclear option.
If I had to make a bet I’d say Gorsuch goes down.
It’s also fair to say that Sen. Mitch McConnell is the reason that Gorsuch is also not the ninth Supreme Justice justice.
Ain’t got all year.
I think you are right.
Not with a gutless bag of crap at the helm.
Besides both houses are already in (almost) full retreat.
2018 is coming. If there is a reasonable number of rinos replaced with new blood, I think you will see a lot of coming to Jesus moments in DC. Of course if there isn’t, not much permanent good Trump can do.
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