{"id":26979,"date":"2017-03-29T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26979"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T20:28:35","slug":"republicans-going-nuclear-on-whoresuch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/29\/republicans-going-nuclear-on-whoresuch\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Going Nuclear on Whoresuch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the record, I am a long term opponent of the filibuster that requires 60 votes for cloture and as long term proponent of the Nuclear Option.  I even coined the term, "Nuke the Filibastards" years ago.  Those views have not changed, and early in the Obama administration, I predicted that the party that changed it would have a huge advantage.   If the Nevada Leg Hound, Harry Reid, did not consign the 60 vote requirement for cloture to the trashcan of history, Republicans would do so if they ever got the chance, as it appears they are about to do.  If Reid and the Democrats had done so then, we would have gotten the Public Option, Glass Steagall, and a robust stimulus.  Republicans could not have sabotaged the nation.  Trump would not be.  Now, a traitor that may not even survive politically until the midterms will get to pack SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD) with Whoresuch, a fascist so extreme that he makes Scalia look liberal, to oppose our Constitution for life.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sens. Roger E. Wicker (R-Miss.) and Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) are not usually partisan firebrands, particularly on presidential appointments. <\/p>\n

Back in 2013, Wicker helped temporarily defuse a showdown over Republican filibusters of President Barack Obama\u2019s nominees to the judiciary and agencies. More than a decade ago, Carper voted to confirm President George W. Bush\u2019s first Supreme Court nominee and opposed Democratic efforts to filibuster the other. <\/p>\n

Now, with about 10 days left in the showdown over President Trump\u2019s first Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, both Wicker and Carper have turned dour in their outlook for what the battle means for the Senate \u2014 and the country.<\/p>\n

Wicker is all but certain that Democrats have enough votes to block Gorsuch\u2019s confirmation next week with a filibuster \u2014 by demanding a procedural step that takes 60 votes to clear. That, in turn, probably would prompt the Republicans to change the rules unilaterally to allow Gorsuch\u2019s confirmation, and all other Supreme Court picks thereafter, by a simple majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a done deal,\u201d Wicker said Tuesday. \u201cThat\u2019s the way it\u2019s headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carper agreed, explaining that he would rather see Republicans eliminate supermajority thresholds for Supreme Court nominees, further poisoning the already toxic atmosphere in Washington, than do anything to support Gorsuch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Washington Post<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Graphic Credit: Left over Rights<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

It does not often happen that I agree with Carper, but I do now.  I still fully believe in elimination the filibuster an d refuse to be a hypocrite pretending that I don’t.  I just wish we had a way to delay that change.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the record, I am a long term opponent of the filibuster that requires 60 votes for cloture and as long term proponent of the Nuclear Option.  I even coined the term, "Nuke the Filibastards" years ago.  Those views have not changed, and early in the Obama administration, I predicted that the party that changed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}