To: grobdriver
Yep, it is the Reid option. Why do the Reps call it the nuclear option? I can understand why the Dems and MSM do it, but the Reps should call it what it really is, the Reid option.
118 posted on
04/06/2017 8:58:17 AM PDT by
kabar
To: kabar
125 posted on
04/06/2017 9:00:44 AM PDT by
ROCKLOBSTER
(The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
To: kabar
It goes back to the Miguel Estrada nomination in Bush's first term. Schumer first announced his ideological test because of this.
The "nuclear option" was devised to break the Democrats block of Estrada by using the parliamentarian to bypass cloture. It was called the nuclear option because it "blew up" regular order and tradition.
-PJ
130 posted on
04/06/2017 9:01:53 AM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
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