Cool. Long live the Republic!
Sad day for democracy???
But then, we aren’t a democracy.
We are a constitutional republic.
And the “nuclear option” was simply an action by the Senate, in accordance with the constitution, in setting their rules of procedure. Each house of congress sets their rules per the constitution.
And the nuclear option had already been exercised by Harry Reid and Democrats, for lower court nominees.
Getting rid of the filibuster for presidential nominees, once considered unthinkable, became thinkable because Democrats started this whole nonsense.
And now we hear wailing from the liberals about how democracy dies in darkness, how the GOP is leading us to dictatorship and fascism, Trump is Hitler, ad nauseum.
And an irony is that Democrats such as Tim Kaine, before HIllary’s loss in the election, said that Democrats would invoke the nuclear option to get Hillary’s nominees to the Supreme Court confirmed, if she became president.
Exactly.
Not only that but simple majority rule IS Democracy. A 60 vote majority is not Democracy. That's mob rule.