RUSH: I have a brief question for Senator McCain, Senator Susan Collins, and the rest. How is that “working across the aisle” thing working out for you now with this nuclear option thing? You stuck your hand out across the aisle to shake hands with ‘em, and now you gotta somehow reach around and take a knife outta your back.
It took lies:
“................Some see these nominees as an effort to pack the court after a series of decisions Obama did not like.
The issue was similar last July when Reid and company convinced the Republicans to capitulate on President Obama’s terrible nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. In tricking the Republicans into approving numerous nominees the Democrats promised they were “not touching judges.”
Harry Reid (D-NV): “We’re not touching judges. That’s what they were talking about. This is not judges.” (NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 7/14/13)
Reid didn’t stop there. He made a similar promise at a Press briefing:
Harry Reid (D-NV): “We’re not talking about changing the filibuster rules that relates to nominations for judges. …this is not about judges.” (Sen. Reid, Press Briefing, 7/11/13)
Reid wasn’t alone in making such representations. Senators Sherrod Brown and Amy Klobuchar also offered similar assurances:
Sherrod Brown (D-OH): “…I think any president should have the ability to put people in place for the — at the pleasure of the president. These are not judges. That’s a whole another issue.” (MSNBC, 7/9/13)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN): “…I don’t understand why for these nominees, I’m not talking about judges here, I’m talking about the president’s team, of which there are currently over 180 people that are just pending right now before the Senate for the Executive Office nominations. Why we can’t just do 51 votes is beyond me.” (ABC’s “This Week,” 7/14/13)......
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The next election saw the New Deal dead with many of them thrown out.
Dingy Harry Reid never would have tried this if Robert KKK Byrd were still breathing in the Senate!
When you can’t get any more socialist/communist bills destroying America through the legislative process and you know you’ll lose big in 2014 because of the socialist/communist legislation like Obamacare... you need to pad the courts with socialist/communist.
Obama could have always recess appointed these judges.
Too bad all GOP Senators don’t just head home and leave it to the Democrats. Now that they have the nuclear option, no Republican’s vote will count anyway. Wouldn’t a walkout be great!!! (Of course the GOPe Senators would stay to try for moderation...so I guess most would stay anyway).
Pandora’s box has been opened
More ‘Uniparty’ shenanigans...
Even more dangerous, Obama can now set up his Death Panel of 15 amoral thugs uninhibited by opposition. That’s one way to eliminate your political opponents.
Yet the establishment Republicans consider the Tea Party to be the enemy.
Wow. Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves. The Judiciary role defined as to protect the achievements of Presidents.
The Senate Dems are risking civil war.
By far, the absolutely most important part of this is that Reid has finally done what Julius Caesar did when he crossed the Rubicon river, he was quoted as saying “The die (dice) is cast”. Forbidden to bring his armies into Rome, he did so, a de facto declaration that he was now the dictator of Rome.
A little more than five years later, Julius Caesar found himself stabbed to death on the steps of the Roman senate.
While I don’t think that Harry Reid will face the same fate, other than rhetorically, unless perhaps John McCain, that expert backstabber who can’t seem to resist backstabbing anyone, is standing behind him, Reid may still face a huge political downfall.
That is, all the Republicans have to do to enact “bloody vengeance” on Reid and the Democrats, is to *maintain* the Nuclear Option once they have returned to power.
The RINOs were always more than willing to “play fair” when the Democrats had cheated, lied, stolen, betrayed, and otherwise did them dirt. But for once, finally, the RINOs have been, and continue to be, so weakened by the Tea Party, that the Republicans will *finally* give the Democrats a dose of their own medicine.
And you can imagine that both the Democrats will squeal like stuck pigs at this, and the MSM will act like the Republicans started the Nuclear Option from scratch, and that the Democrats would never, ever do anything so “unfair”, so the Republicans shouldn’t, either.
But the Republicans can and should ignore the complaints of both. Why? Because with a Republican controlled congress and a Republican president, it is likely that the POTUS can appoint two, or even three, Supreme Court justices!
Imagine that, instead of a 5-4 Supreme Court, with justice Kennedy always willing to join the liberals when it matters, having a 6-3 conservative majority!
This would mean that congress and the POTUS could rapidly start the disassembly of enormous chunks of the federal government. A massive reorganization to correct over a hundred years of destructive progressivism.
All thanks to Harry Reid and his arrogance.