Posted on 04/06/2017 7:53:11 AM PDT by Dave346
At 11:00 a.m, the Senate will VOTE on cloture for Exec. Cal. #33, Neil Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
That is to be expected. The motto of the Democrat Party is, we do as we please. No one has the right to oppose.
I believe every conservative with any integrity should never use the term “nuclear option’. The correct term for this procedure is “The Reid Rule”.
EODGUY
Thanks to Schmuck we’ll get a hard right replacement for Kennedy or Ginsberg. Thanks again Schmuck! You da’ man.
GET ON WITH IT
McCain does that and there will be few places in America he can walk without a large group of body guards.
You would be talking treason.
Came late to the party-your last paragraph most helpful! Thanks!
How do these bureaucratic idiots get anything done.
God help us from this deformed, grotesque, bloated form of inefficient government.
Not what the founders had envisioned for sure.
I understand where the term came from. But Reid is the one who first invoked the “nuclear option” for judicial and cabient level appointments. So what the Reps are doing now should be labeled the Reid option. We have already crossed the nuclear threshold with Reid who blew up regular order and tradition.
This would give Schmuck and the RATs half a day to plant child porn on a couple of GOP senators’ computers and extort a “no” vote on the rule change.
Chuck E is adjourning his mind
Well, that’s McConnell’s job to keep them in line, then. I mean... face it, who wouldn’t be intimidated by Mitch McConnell?
Followers of Moloch, who sacrifice children to their various lusts.
Delay to 5pm: No-52
1) McConnell is appealing the ruling of the parliamentarian to the president of the Senate (Pence).
2) Pence will overrule the parliamentarian,
3) then the Senate votes to accept Pence's overrule.
4) Then they revote the cloture vote with a 51-vote threshold.
-PJ
Defeated. Keep working boys and girls!
It could be that Schumer wants time to bargain for a deal. We give you Gorsuch in exchange for keeping the filibuster for the next vacancy.
I don’t see why it matters if they set a precedent. The precedent is we know the modern opponent has no intention of abiding by traditional rules, and it is suicide to attempt to abide by rules the other side rejects.
Only if you view Senate treatment of judicial nominees since GWB era as "regular order and tradition." It was the DEMs who started to abuse cloture for the purpose of denying the president a vote on his nominees, which amounted to denying him the appointments. Before that, there were very few nominations stiff-armed by a minority in the Senate.
In my view, Reid returned the Senate to regular order.
Schumer’s latest motion fails 48-52 - another straight party-line vote.
There is also the Box turtle.......
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