[hattend]

Reid must know something. How else could he do this knowing that the Senate eventually will go back to the GOP?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Reid must know something. How else could he do this knowing that the Senate eventually will go back to the GOP?

I don't really buy this argument. Each Senate is not really restrained by what the previous Senate did. Regardless of whether Reid did this or not, a future GOP Senate could exercise the "nuclear option" (or choose not to do so), regardless of whether Reid did it. That may have been his thinking as well - he may have thought the GOP would have eventually done it, so why not pull the trigger now?

[ObamahatesPACoal]

It is a distraction and he knows he wont have this many far left lapdogs anytime this decade.

[tanknetter]

Reid must know something. How else could he do this knowing that the Senate eventually will go back to the GOP?

Because if the Dems hold the White House and the Judiciary, control of the Senate is irrelevant.

This is a response to the ObamaCare fallout, not anything the Republicans have done on nominees. They want to try to preserve the Senate, sure (by trying to goad the GOP into partisan counterattacks that will distract from the focus on ObamaCare), but they're prepping to lose it in 2014. They NEED those empty judicial seats filled ...

[SoFloFreeper]

I agree. Reminds me of the Star Wars story, when the Senate agrees to give Palpatin “emergency powers” to essentially bypass the legislature.

That is what these fascists have done, and their sycophants in the media applaud.