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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What have we degraded to?
Notice three politically-correct individuals in pic. Lois Lerner and that idiot IG of Treasury were also politically-correct.
Did we elect a person to office in order for him to threaten us like this? Apparently so. As long as he keeps the “free” goodies flowing, nothing else matters.
What have we degraded to? Zimbabwe with nukes.
This is absolutely disgusting, but you know what? Obama’s Chicago thug brothers and the blacks on the streets are cheering this. They want Obama to “stick it to whitey.”
This is exactly what they wanted when the voted the Marxist faggot into office.
Go ahead. I’m more than okay with changing Senate rules. If the Dems do that and we retake the Senate, we have far more flexibility to dismantle the leftist’s legacy. Or do they really think they have corrupted our election process enough to keep power forever?
Conservatives were calling for the GOP Senate majority to do exactly this in GWB second term over judges. In fact Mark Levin told the GOP to do this in his book at that time.
All Republicans have to do is to remind Dems they they wont hold the Senate forever.
go ahead change the rules!
we will control the Senate soon, and you will have already done the necessary work!
“Or do they really think they have corrupted our election process enough to keep power forever?”
Yes.
that’s right...our side doesn’t have the guts to do it so let the Dems do the dirty work.
The way things are going...we have a good chance of taking over the Senate soon.
"Totalitarian Socialist Fascists." OK, now that makes sense.
GO REPUBLICANS!!! THIS is the time to let the DEMOCRATS SHOW THEIR SICKENING ACTIONS to dumb AMERICANS!!!
Tyranny!
As Dems play the exact same bluffing game that Senate GOP did EXACTLY eight years earlier the GOP could reply that maybe the whole filibuster should go if the Judical confirmation one does, maybe like next congress.
See how Dems react to that,(that means they would have to vote on all GOP initiated Senate bills)
I don’t think the Democrats in the Senate want to gut the Fillibuster Rules, or they would have already done it. They know they wont always be in the majority and they aren’t going to take away their minority power.
Notice reporting choice of language. For republicans it was the nuclear option. For dems its changing the senate rules.
Agree.
They’d hate it a few months from now.
THE SHAME is that the Senate will do what Obama orders.
We do not have three branches of Government any longer.
The Senate under Harry Reid is owned by Obama ,it is no longer a legitimate—separate—part of the Government.
The Supreme Court , —Under Roberts— is also ruled by Obama. No longer a separate part of the Government.
We have a President who is strictly partisan, racist, and hates America, and he has our whole Government -—The Presidency, the Congress, the Judicial, and all of it's agencies by the balls. Never in the history of this country have we been so corrupted.
Not to worry, that old guy, the Senator from New Jersey , will stem the tide.
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