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How Reid got votes on nuke option
The Hill ^ | November 22, 2013 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 11/22/2013 3:08:19 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“In the end, Reid said he would accept nothing less than confirmation of all three of Obama’s nominees to the D.C. Circuit, the second most powerful court in the nation, which has primary jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act.’

In the spirit of compromise, of course.

The dhimmicraps, under the leadership of Reid the Feckless, have positioned themselves as the petulant toddlers in FedGov. Of course, they only have to intimidate the pubbies in order to get their own way...again.

Time to flush the commode that is DC.


21 posted on 11/22/2013 4:03:38 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Whatever. How about declare that 30% of the vote is good enough and go along with it.

This is a dictatorship they want obviously.


22 posted on 11/22/2013 4:09:36 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: PubliusMM

Reid and their demands. These people are crazy. They walk and vote blindfolded without a care, litteraly defecating the country down the toilet.


23 posted on 11/22/2013 4:10:50 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: tobyhill

Recess appointments don’t last a lifetime.

This is big.


24 posted on 11/22/2013 4:11:30 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Yo-Yo
The Nucular Option passed with 51 votes. The Senate Quorum requirement is - wait for it - 51.

Thank you. I've wondered.
25 posted on 11/22/2013 4:11:59 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: lavaroise
This is a dictatorship they want obviously.

And the media is whooping and cheering Reid it on, and in a disgusting display of hypocrisy, simultaneously warning Republicans that they should put the supermajority rule back in if they take the senate in 2014.

26 posted on 11/22/2013 4:23:11 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a well-respected centrist

She's neither

In the end, Reid said he would accept nothing less than confirmation of all three of Obama’s nominees to the D.C. Circuit, the second most powerful court in the nation, which has primary jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act.

And here's the real end game. Somebody on this board said it yesterday. Here's to you, unidentified FReeper. It really was about making sure that all of 0bama's illegal and unpopular decrees stand.

27 posted on 11/22/2013 4:38:41 AM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether the majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is really gonna tick-off the precious Moderates.


28 posted on 11/22/2013 5:05:35 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Pathetic inside the Beltway drivel. I am not intrigued, I am only disgusted. The level of hypocricy is off the charts


29 posted on 11/22/2013 5:08:43 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Hardastarboard
It really was about making sure that all of 0bama's illegal and unpopular decrees stand.

"...Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he didn’t fear retaliation. He said he reached a tipping point after Republicans filibustered three of Mr. Obama’s nominees to serve on the federal appeals court in Washington, which is considered the second most important court in the country because it hears cases involving key federal agencies." ..... -- Democrats end Senate tradition, trigger ‘nuclear option’ to ram through Obama’s judicial nominees

30 posted on 11/22/2013 5:08:46 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Hardastarboard

All the more reason EVERY conservative needs to work to defeat and remove the demodummies from the senate and congress as each one of them are evil parisite control freaks. There has to be a way to resolve their pathetic ways of destroying this nation short of an all out civil war.


31 posted on 11/22/2013 5:12:20 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If the GOP manages to gain control of House, Senate and White House, they need to pass legislation that permits them to remove/replace activist federal judges who are ‘overboard’ to either the right or left.

Should be some attention given to SCOTUS judges’ terms, too, if they consistantly demonstrate by decisions that they are not abiding by the Constitution, but are biased.


32 posted on 11/22/2013 5:15:22 AM PST by octex
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What goes round comes around. If the pubbies get their acts together and get a spine they may be able to turn the tables on the RATS next November. They have to drive hard re. Obamcare and let the red state constituents with RAT senators know the kind of left wing judges that are being approved.


33 posted on 11/22/2013 5:15:47 AM PST by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: kenmcg

-——comes around-—

The goal is no comes around.

If there is a comes around, with the destruction now being rendered, the comes around will be ineffective


34 posted on 11/22/2013 5:18:19 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: kenmcg

Well, I have an even larger concern than left-wing liberal judges being appointed. What happens if he appoints Muslims into enough judicial roles that they can “declare” Sharia law is the new law of the land?


35 posted on 11/22/2013 5:28:27 AM PST by KenD
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The House owns the REAL nuclear option - they can defund any court they choose to defund.
How's THAT for a nuclear option?
36 posted on 11/22/2013 5:35:25 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Psalm 73

“........ For now, with legislative progress in the House all but doomed by Republican opposition, officials said the president could at least get a full team in place so that he can move forward with executive action, when possible, when Republicans block his agenda in Congress.

That’s what Republicans fear.

“This is nothing more than a power grab in order to try to advance the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda,” Mr. McConnell said.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/us/politics/a-move-years-in-the-making-with-lasting-ramifications.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all


37 posted on 11/22/2013 5:40:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Resettozero

You’d think that I’d be able to spell “Nuclear,” but that darn Public Edumication still haunts me.


38 posted on 11/22/2013 5:48:13 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Will packing the DC court also shield Holder from crimes (lying to Congress, Fast and Furious) and shield 0bama for his many crimes and forgeries?


39 posted on 11/22/2013 5:49:08 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Elections always mattered. The GOP has squandered too many, starting with that Minnesota Clown.


40 posted on 11/22/2013 5:51:13 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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