That would be tough on
our fine DC Freepers, but
would solve some problems . . .
Posted on 05/09/2005 7:13:14 AM PDT by smoothsailing
That would be tough on
our fine DC Freepers, but
would solve some problems . . .
Yea yea yea -- by the time they do so, we'll all be be 99 years old...
NO. Why? Because its not Constitutional to filibuster nominees. So if 20 years from now, this is used against our interests, that's the way it works. At least the opposition will be following the Constitution...
I hate term "go nuclear". That term is used by the left to make us look like we are attempting to circumvent the law.
We ought to just call it the "constitutional option". That's what it is.
We ought to just call it the "constitutional option". That's what it is.
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Most certainly. Given that, get with it GOP, and make it happen -- b****slap the obstructionist Dems! HARD!
I think the Dems started out playing this as a game. They are seeing that abortion is not the "sure vote" it was before people began being honest about the idea of killing babies in the womb. The Pledge issue has been played out and people are again beginning to wear the badges of their religion.....just the opposite of what the Dems intended. Just imagine losing an election over moral issues...just imagine!!
Agree completely.
It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn the term was coined by a Democrat. As a metaphor "going nuclear" has about as many negative connotations as you can imagine.
Without repeating all the arguments for demanding a 'straight-up vote"--a democratic process, by the way--or all the quotes from these same Democrats from the mid-`90s, when they wanted a vote, before the "nuclear option", suffice to say that those who control the language control the debate.
You must be a youngun or your powers of "recall" are fading.
Just what to hell do you think we have been experiencing for the past 25 years with the activist liberal judiciary which have turned our Constitution on its head?
Geez, give me a break about what happens when (or if) we become the minority party again.
UNLESS we get some more conservative judges, NOW, it WON'T matter what happens in 25 years!!!
Janice Rogers Brown was re-elected to the California State Supreme Court with 76% of the vote. California, one of the blue-est states! Yet according to Chuckie and Dickie she is 'out of the mainstream'! Booshwa!
Nuclur!
Doesn't matter. We are talking about changing a Senate rule, not amending the Constitution. There is no Constitutional requirement that a judical nominee needs a super-majority. If the Senate Democrats are allowed to get away with this, we can forget about getting any kind of strict-constructionist on the judiciary. Might as well let Schumer and company submit to the President a pick-list consisting of whom they would approve.
It strokes my memory that the term "go nuclear" regarding this topic, originally referred to the tantrum the dems were promising if the Republicans were to go through with the veto restoration. It was the dems and their sycophants in the press who inverted the meaning.
They (the dems) didn't care about minority interests when the Republicans were in the minority, so why should the Republicans care about them now?..................
I'm sick of this. Two years floating the trial baloon is enough. The GOP should either pull the trigger or admit defeat.
My senators are being deprived of their right to vote on these nominees. Let them vote to represent me.
My senators are Chuckie and Hillary!.
"I wonder if this will come back and bite us in the ass twenty years from now?"
Some Democrats asked the same question 20 years ago.
Maybe not.
Maybe instead of trying to staff it or pack it we should just starve it to death.
Just kiddin'...of course ;-)
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