Posted on 04/09/2017 12:16:43 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – In response to the U.S. Senate enacting the so-called “nuclear option” on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. issued the following statement:
“It is disappointing to see Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell change the rules of the Senate to allow for a simple majority vote on Supreme Court nominees now and in the future. He has rolled back long-standing Senate rules and traditions to lower the bar for Judge Gorsuch’s nomination, in essence making Gorsuch nothing more than a garden-variety political appointee.
“For nearly a year, AFGE has asked Congress to do its job and hold hearings for Judge Merrick Garland. It’s a sad day for democracy when partisan senators refuse to do what’s right to get what they want. Working people in America are under constant attack and continue to face numerous attempts to undermine their rights at work from insiders looking to roll back provisions that unions have long fought for. Forcing through a justice by a simple majority vote shows that leaders in the Senate don’t care about the working class.
“Congress had a chance to have a serious debate about the impact of Judge Gorsuch’s lifetime appointment on working people in America. Supreme Court Justices will now be political appointees, serving for life.
“Last year I stood outside the Supreme Court with hundreds of others asking our elected representatives to ‘Do their job,’ and now it’s safe to say they have let us all down. It’s unfortunate that faced with the idea of having to put forth a new and better nominee for all of America, Senate leaders have instead run roughshod over long-established rules and guidelines so they could get their way.”
tell these a$$holes that the 60 vote super majority was an old boy’s rule. McConnell just threw it into the trash can. End of story
Funny, I don’t recall this or any other union saying a dang thing when the 60-vote rules was instituted in 2003 to block George W from putting judges on the federal bench.
All we’ve done is returned to the original intent of Congress. And is it any wonder that the very first “filibuster” was by a Dimocrat?
Makes you question Scalias death even more doesn’t it?
Ditto to what you said. There are no good reasons for allowing government unions. There already exist civil service protection laws to protect the civil serpents.
McConnell didn’t change the rules, he just put them back as they were for over 200 years. Great day for the Constitution.
The socialists finally lost one.
Not only that but simple majority rule IS Democracy. A 60 vote majority is not Democracy. That's mob rule.
That's because one doesn't exist here.
We are a Constitutional Representative Republic.
It was a great day for a Constitutional Representative Republic.
Do any of these idiots know our Pledge of Allegiance?
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Remember, you’re talking to folks who refuse to keep score.
They participated. They should get something for that you know. /s
Yes, in the end it does come down to a majority vote. That vote didn’t take place without the Republic electing Representatives.
We are a Constitutional Representative Republic.
People were voted to office with simply majorities. You could say that is majority rule. When those Representatives (Congressment and Senators) go to Washington, they are not bound to vote a certain way.
Majority rule does not force them at that point. They can vote against their constituents at times, and so this is not a true Democracy in that sense.
You hypocrites!
In virtually the same breath you lament the "sad day for democracy" while stating "Forcing through a justice by a simple majority vote shows that leaders in the Senate don’t care about the working class."
You dolts! Passage by virtue of a simple majority is the very essence of democracy - and the reason why the Founders favored a Constitutional Republic instead. You're only mad because you failed to get what you wanted - not because of any abandonment of "long-established rules and guidelines". Invoking the Reid rule became a necessity when dhimmicrats promised to derail the advise and consent process. And please don't lie about the nomination process becoming a political one - the left created the partisan environment long before Gorsuch. Remember Bork?
I'm elated to see that you're angry about yet another loss for the left - because that loss means a win for America! Regards,
An American Taxpayer
Where was this jackazz while Husseincare was being written in secret meetings?
I think the filibuster is gone and over. The Demonicrats courtesy of Harry Reid killed the filibuster when he went nuclear years ago. If the demonicrats were in control of the Senate they would go nuclear in a second to advance their chosen candidates to the Supreme Court and they should, just as Mitch McConnell went nuclear to advance our candidate to the Supreme Court.
Harry Reid did the Senate a great service by doing this. I think in the future we should refer to this as the “Harry Reid Rule.”
The filibuster is dead, today, yesterday and tomorrow!
The filibuster is dead, today, yesterday and tomorrow!
The filibuster is dead, today, yesterday and tomorrow!
The filibuster is dead, today, yesterday and tomorrow!
Did I mention that the filibuster is dead?
The Senate and Senators have not been worthy of the filibuster since the 17th Amendment.
So a credit union is opining on the Senate’s elimination of the filibuster? The committee chair of Boy Scout Troop 3712 said that it was irrelevant what a credit union thought of the filibuster rule.
“Government unions, and their members. should be shot, hung, burned, and buried in the sun.”
Pull their health benefits. Force everyone in government to buy their own Obamacare policies.
Unless you called it a sad day for Democracy when it was used by Senator Reid you are just being a silly hypocrite!
And their opinion means something because....?
J. David Cox, I think Federal Unions is a sad time for America. GTH, Moron...
It’s a really sad day when the RATs have cognitive dissonance when it come to the words “do what’s right!”
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