Not long ago Harry Reid said what he did today was "UnAmerican."

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I have to say, McConnell's comment is absolutely dripping with hypocrisy and irony.

“We’re not interested in having a gun put to our head any longer,” McConnell said. “Some of us have been around here long enough to know that the shoe is sometimes on the other foot.” McConnell then addressed Democrats directly, saying: “You may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”
 
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lawgator1 said:
I have to say, McConnell's comment is absolutely dripping with hypocrisy and irony.

“We’re not interested in having a gun put to our head any longer,” McConnell said. “Some of us have been around here long enough to know that the shoe is sometimes on the other foot.” McConnell then addressed Democrats directly, saying: “You may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”
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Cool story. What about Harry Reid?
 
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As I said in my last post, this seems too coincidental with the DC court smacking the Reid/Obama team around on Yucca Mountain. He wants to stack the court.
 
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And for the record, I have mixed emotions about this. Thing is, there is no doubt in my mind but that if the roles were reversed and Dems were filibustering like the GOP has been for some time now, the GOP would be passing the same rule change.

I mean, I get that partisan politics has something to do with some nominations, for every president. But this has been ridiculous as of late.
 
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What I'd like to see is a list of today's senators, who were in the Senate in 2005, who have not flip flopped on this issue.

Maybe VOLinthaNATI will furnish such a list, since he appears to be doing research.
 
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lawgator1 said:
And for the record, I have mixed emotions about this. Thing is, there is no doubt in my mind but that if the roles were reversed and Dems were filibustering like the GOP has been for some time now, the GOP would be passing the same rule change.

I mean, I get that partisan politics has something to do with some nominations, for every president. But this has been ridiculous as of late.
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But the Dems did filibuster and the GOP threatened and did not change the rules - that's the entire point of the OP.

I've always said that advise/consent should be heavy on advise and light on consent but neither side acts that way.
 
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lawgator1 said:
And for the record, I have mixed emotions about this. Thing is, there is no doubt in my mind but that if the roles were reversed and Dems were filibustering like the GOP has been for some time now, the GOP would be passing the same rule change.

I mean, I get that partisan politics has something to do with some nominations, for every president. But this has been ridiculous as of late.
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It's called the "nuclear" option for a reason.
 
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The way I see it, it takes a lot of doing stuff to make the DC appeals court a political tool. Right now, they are tied up in regulations and outright avoiding the law. Therefore, it's really beneficial for progressives (and social conservatives) to have lifetime appointees who will see it the way you want it (see dissenting Democrat who thought that defunding Yucca Mountain was an o.k. to skirt the law).
 
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Velo Vol said:
What I'd like to see is a list of today's senators, who were in the Senate in 2005, who have not flip flopped on this issue.

Maybe VOLinthaNATI will furnish such a list, since he appears to be doing research.
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Sorry to disappoint you. I will do no such thing.
 
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volinbham said:
But the Dems did filibuster and the GOP threatened and did not change the rules - that's the entire point of the OP.

I've always said that advise/consent should be heavy on advise and light on consent but neither side acts that way.
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I get what you are saying and I understand the point of the old rule. But there ought to be some balance to it. I don't particularly have an alternative idea in mind, but most recently you've had Graham, who is running to the right like he's freakin' on fire, say he's going to stall every single nominee, no mater what, just to try to make his conservative bones by being anti-Obama.

When it gets to the point that Senators are openly admitting they will stop every nominee without the slightest even nod to their credentials, something is more wrong than usual.
 
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The President is currently in the WH briefing room basically saying they just invoked the nuclear option because the GOP is causing the end of the world.
 
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Curious to see if the Republicans can change the rules in the house. By nuclear, maybe it's a mutually assured destruction scenario. At least it will be interesting, but helps nothing. Our system was intended to be difficult.
 
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Weezy said:
Curious to see if the Republicans can change the rules in the house. By nuclear, maybe it's a mutually assured destruction scenario. At least it will be interesting, but helps nothing. Our system was intended to be difficult.
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House doesn't confirm, that's a Senate thing.

I'd say that the GOP will obviously retaliate for this in some way, but then again they already auto-vote no on everything proposed by Obama and the Dems so they really have no arrows left in their revenge quiver at this point.
 
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