The nuclear option is not happening. Get ready for McCain to stab us in the back in the name of “preserving the traditions of the Senate.”
In a world in which Kagan and Sotomayer sailed through, the GOP sure as hell should go nuclear if need be to get this done. Frankly, I don’t think Mitch “No Stones” McConnell will do so.
The Dems are not going to vote for Gorsuch, even if they don’t vote for the filibuster.
Just push the red button already.
More sixty-vote blah-blah. The correct play will be to invoke the “Congressional Day” rule, which limits each speaker to two statements during the “day”, which can in fact be arbitrarily long — weeks if needed. Then the so-called “nuclear option” can be saved for whoever is nominated to fill Ginsberg’s cold seat later.
Trump hasn’t made many errors, but this one was huge:
He named Elaine Chao as Transportation Sec BEFORE getting the other key people confirmed. He should have held her hostage as the last appointee until Yertle got all other nominees confirmed.
Republicans should have ended this farce weeks ago....my worry is that he is not another Roberts!!
I am just LOVING this!
Even when a few, somewhat sober, Dem Senators begin to talk about a little bit of compromise, a little bit of reasoned and logical behavior, the Leftist groups organize calls to them and force them to become as batshit crazy as those Leftists are themselves.
GOOD! Let there be an attempted filibuster - it’ll not only show the Dems for who they are, but the filibuster rule will be killed. When that old bat, RBG, decides to retire, strokes out or dies (and I’m rooting for “retire” as of July 1), then Trump will be able to nominate a judicial Genghis Khan and the Dems won’t be able to do anything but stamp their feet and wail about it. Furthermore, the hated (by many) filibuster rule will be history - a rule that allows 41 Senators to hold everyone in the nation hostage...a more anti-democratic rule than perhaps any other among the official (i.e. public) rules that our government uses.
Please, Dems, DON’T throw us in that briar patch. [wink, wink].
McConnell has no guts. He should save us all time and money and invokve the nuke option immediately. Why wait for Dems. they are only stalling and obstructing. Do it now.
I never knew that anyone believed that he would get 60 votes.
‘course I’m not a politician, but I can’t see a big deal here. Change the rule, have the vote to confirm Gorsuch, then change the rule back.
Something wrong with this approach?