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It's OVER 5,000!
They invoked the nuclear option for SCOTUS confirmations in 2017.
Were there any similar actions taken by the prior Senate that may have led to that outcome?
They invoked the nuclear option for SCOTUS confirmations in 2017.
They invoked the nuclear option for SCOTUS confirmations in 2017.
Ted Cruz had a bill before the Senate today to sanction Russia. It failed, with only 55 votes. While 55 is enough to pass, it wasn't enough to defeat Senator Schumer's filibuster of the bill. I expect to hear the President denounce the Senate Majority Leader as a Bull Connor, Jeff Davis, Jim Crow scalawag on the evening news tonight for standing in the way of the majority.
Ahh that's right... They used to new rules put in place by Harry Reid when he couldn't get his way years prior
Just word salad after word salad with fraud boy lol
Sucks when you're proven a fool. I'd be embarrassed too
Sucks when you're proven a fool. I'd be embarrassed too
General Sir John Hackett wrote a novel about a Warsaw Pact vs NATO Cold War gone hot in the early 80s. His purpose was to splash water on the UK political class before they became overly fond of the arms control movement.
In it, the Soviets were struggling so they nuked a British city to try to force NATO into a cease fire. NATO's response was for the UK, France, and the US to each nuke one Soviet city.
The Reid-McConnell filibuster changes have always reminded me of that exchange, even down to being called the "nuclear option." Reid dropped the first bomb when things weren't going his way. McConnell's options were to go full global thermonuclear war by killing the filibuster entirely, take it laying down and hope the Dems didn't interpret that as weakness, or return fire to show the consequences of killing the filibuster in part or whole. I think he struck a nice balance.
It still causes the pearl clutching about the filibuster to ring a bit hollow, in addition to finding the whole analogy concerning. If what Reid did was like dropping a bomb, then the correct response would remain not bombing in response. We’re so conditioned to treat politics as a team sport that we forget that these people have an obligation to lead. I’m not saying what McConnell did was any worse than what the Democrats did, but I think that the greater point to the filibuster debate is how broken our political system is. That’s why it would have felt more apt for the Bee to make a point about the state of our political divide than the easier target of Dems being “woke.”
Our politics being so divided is exactly why the filibuster is so necessary
Lol remember occupy wall street?
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