Precedent has been set for a 2015 GOP Senate and beyond.
Yes, Dingy Harry knows they will lose the senate next year. Best to frontload their picks starting now.
He’s gambling (and is probably right) that the Republicans won’t have the gonads to do the same to them after next year’s elections.
you would think...but the GOPe is too stooopid to realize it...didn’t Mark Levin’s legal group win a momentous battle where the court ruled obummer’s recess appointments were in violation of the Constitution??? has the GOPe done anything with that court ruling??
That's why I don't get it -- setting this precedent means the GOP can do the same thing the next time they're in the White House -- and, further, could repeal (or make major changes to) Obamacare in 2017 with just a majority vote. All that for a handful of crappy judicial nominees (and perhaps zero Supreme Court nominees before the 2014 elections)?
You mean, of course, for the GOP to cave.
Nope. If when we elect a GOP majority, Reid on his last day in office with a RAT majority, will undo what he has just done and reinstate the traditional fillibuster and the 3/5ths requirement for cloture.
If Boehner and the rest of the GOP leadership in the House had any balls, they would tell Reid that effective immediately, the House will no longer vote on any bill that originates in the Senate, no matter how trivial or controversial.