Well Yes, yes they do.
They are probably right.
Posted on 06/05/2013 5:52:39 AM PDT by bestintxas
President Obama supports many things he opposed as Senator Obama—such as unlimited terrorist detention—but for flip-flopping with a high degree of artistic difficulty nothing beats his judicial filibuster ultimatum on Tuesday. If Republicans don't confirm his three, yes, three, new nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, he'll unleash Democrats to gut the Senate's filibuster rules.
Mr. Obama didn't explicitly state the threat portion of that ultimatum—he's leaving that dirty work to the reliable Harry Reid. But everyone knows that's the subtext of Tuesday's announcement, which is a political attempt to realign the balance of power on an appeals court that has frustrated the Administration's regulatory overreach.
The Senate has "a constitutional duty to promptly consider judicial nominees for confirmation," Mr. Obama averred in the Rose Garden. "Throughout my first term as President, the Senate too often failed to do that."
He might have added, but somehow didn't, that the Senate also too often failed to do that "duty" when George W. Bush was President. You could even say that Senate Democrats invented the filibuster against D.C. Circuit nominees. Who can forget the successful Joe Biden-John Kerry effort to defeat the distinguished appellate lawyer Miguel Estrada mainly because he is Hispanic and might make it to the Supreme Court someday? And how about the denial of a vote for 918 days to Peter Keisler? Both men had majority support but weren't confirmed because Democrats set a standard of 60 votes.
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Good point!
I remember thinking that when Bush changed some of the rules that it could be used the wrong way in the hands of evil doers.
So, let the evil doers (Dems) know that we can change the rules when it's our turn.
“I have a dream that honorable and centrist Democrats temporarily leave their party in protest and caucus with the GOP until this POS is thrown out of office or his term expires.”
We are dealing with a party that has no American patriots at all, simply buch of rogues who are either ignorant or on the take.
The last patriot they had was Joe Lieberman who was willing to diss his party for the good of the country.
Before him, I always admired Patrick Moynihan to do the same.
I agree that the Republicans should use the “nuclear retaliation” threat against the Democrats, that if Reid goes ahead and does this, and gets enough votes to do this, then the Republicans when next in control of the senate will marginalize the Democrats, so they can no longer logjam the senate.
Which, they might add, will make it a snap to repeal Obamacare, build the border fence, revitalize the military at the expense of the bureaucracy, fire vast numbers of federal employees, and utterly crush those federal agencies that are currently abusing their power.
If conservatives turn out in 2014 to create a GOP majority in the Senate, then the GOPe could be in the way of your wish. The GOPe would never take the rule changes the democrats used to slam through the Dem agenda rather they would put the old rules back in place and remain quiet about it.
Well Yes, yes they do.
They are probably right.
Nobody keeps power forever. All they're doing is adding to the casualty rate when it does go sideways.
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