Levin realizes this move may very well come back to bite them in the butt in the near future.
There should be no reason to require 60+ votes for a Presidential nomination. NONE. Finally Harry Reid had the balls to tell the Republicans to stick it where the sun doesn't shine.Levin realizes this move may very well come back to bite them in the butt in the near future.
Levin realizes this move may very well come back to bite them in the butt in the near future.
Harry Reid finally comes through
The Senate has voted to change its rules so that a simple majority is required to confirm judicial nominations and executive branch picks — the so-called “nuclear option.”
The final vote was 52-48. The previous threshold was 60 votes to bring such nominations to a final up-or-down vote.
“The threshold for cloture on nominations not including the Supreme Court, is now a majority,” Sen Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), the Senate president pro temp, declared after the vote.
Three Democrats voted with Republicans against the change: Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.). Levin is a longtime senator; Manchin and Pryor come from red states.
Shortly after the vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office sent around a memo noting that the Senate has changed its procedures using a majority vote 18 times since 1977. Republicans, though, note that none of the changes rise to the level of today’s change.
Senate approves nuclear option
As if! The GOP have literally done NOTHING legislatively since President Obama has been elected especially during his 2nd term. This is GREAT because finally the Senate can get some work done. The GOP strategy to block EVERYTHING will backfire far more than the change to the filibuster rule. It's so much fun watching the GOP beat each other up day after day after day...And when you lose both houses and the presidency soon, I don't want to hear a thing from you. Paybacks are hell.
It's about time Harry.
There will never be a payback.
Even if, by some weird turn of events the republicons regain a senate majority...Democrats don't filibuster presidential appointments.
It will. However, I approve of that. For presidential appointments, I do not think it should take 60 votes and I do not think ideology should be used to block appointments, and both those go either way.
Harry Reid didn't remove Senate rule 22, he just made it a simple majority vote for presidential appointments.So Harry Reid proved himself a fraud when he said he would never support removing the filibuster rule. I hope these justices are worth it, because when the GOP retakes the Senate there will be hell to pay. Changing the rules to get what you want is such a pattern for the democrats that they have hastened the day they are removed from control
You are being facetious, right?
Tell me more about Ambassador Bolton?
Harry Reid didn't remove Senate rule 22, he just made it a simple majority vote for presidential appointments.
It will. However, I approve of that. For presidential appointments, I do not think it should take 60 votes and I do not think ideology should be used to block appointments, and both those go either way. It is a game both sides play, and it really does need to stop. Unless there is something major with an appointment, some ethics violations, clearly unqualified, something like that, then the president does get to pick. That is entirely appropriate, and it does not matter who is president. I did not support and disagreed with the blocking of Bush nominations(and it happened, bigtime) either. Maybe if the two parties stopped trying to **** each other over at every turn, things would not be so ****ed up.
Gee you think it would have been a smart thing to appoint someone to be our UN Ambassador who is against the UN as a body? The genius of GW Bush is never to be overlooked....
You are the one who must be facetious... ONE Democratic filibuster as opposed to how many republicon filibusters?You are being facetious, right?
Tell me more about Ambassador Bolton?
And when you lose both houses and the presidency soon, I don't want to hear a thing from you. Paybacks are hell.
It's about time Harry.
There will never be a payback.
Even if, by some weird turn of events the republicons regain a senate majority...Democrats don't filibuster presidential appointments.
That is a republicon thing .
The party of mass obstruction is losing it's grip.
No he removed the rule to get what he wants. The Senate has just been gridlocked. Good bye bipartisanship there. Goodbye getting anything out of the House. Hello Government Shutdown II.
Because the GOP was being super cooperative before, right?
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