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This is the face of the man who is willing to plunge the most important and diverse body of legislators in the history of the world into chaos. By all accounts he's determined to go forward with the nuclear option which, is an all out attempt to completely by-pass and other wise render the entire body of republican legislators, duly elected by the people and sent to DC to represent their state constituencies, of none effect.

I've warned time and again that IMO, this soft spoken megalomaniac is dangerous and a very real and present threat to our 237 year representative form of government. As with anything, respect and trust in one's government is a tremendous aide in the establishment of an orderly society. That trust and respect is rapidly eroding under Reid's leadership. I mean, imagine the state of mind with which one must be necessarily beset, to be brazen enough to basically run over the will of over half of the population of the United States of America. We see the power of our senators and our way of life, evaporating before our eyes here.

[Image: nuclear-option.jpg]sounds dangerous

Senate Democrats laid the groundwork Thursday to trigger the “nuclear option” against minority filibusters, setting up a dramatic Tuesday showdown in which Republicans either will have to accept seven of President Obama’s controversial appointments or watch as Democrats change the rules and end filibusters of executive branch nominees.
The move would fundamentally alter the balance of power[Image: lb_icon1.png] between the White House and the Senate and would give the president more latitude to put his team into place. But it also would aggravate a contentious atmosphere in the Senate and dim prospects for bipartisan agreements this year, with spending, debt and immigration fights still simmering.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said at the beginning of the year that he would not use the option.


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This is all about making it easier for Obama to put unqualified political hacks into positions of power. Those political appointees will hire socialist civil "servants" who will be doing damage for decades. The real cost of electing people like Obama to the presidency is a sharp, long lasting decline in competency throughout the executive branch of government.

Maybe the republicans shouldn't block every nomination, just to be blocking Obama.

TheRealVille Wrote:Maybe the republicans shouldn't block every nomination, just to be blocking Obama.

Maybe Obama should nominate qualified people instead of focusing on their color, gender, and size of their Obama campaign donations. I'll bet that you supported Reid and the Democrats more than two dozen judicial nominees, many of whom were deemed well qualified by the ABA.

TheRealVille Wrote:Maybe the republicans shouldn't block every nomination, just to be blocking Obama.

Same could have been said of the democrats back in 2001-2008

I am 100% for a "majority rules" thing in the Senate. Let America speak. America put more democrat senators in the senate, and it should speak that way. The filibuster should be gone.

TheRealThing Wrote:Click Me, if you have a Strong Stomach

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This is the face of the man who is willing to plunge the most important and diverse body of legislators in the history of the world into chaos. By all accounts he's determined to go forward with the nuclear option which, is an all out attempt to completely by-pass and other wise render the entire body of republican legislators, duly elected by the people and sent to DC to represent their state constituencies, of none effect.

I've warned time and again that IMO, this soft spoken megalomaniac is dangerous and a very real and present threat to our 237 year representative form of government. As with anything, respect and trust in one's government is a tremendous aide in the establishment of an orderly society. That trust and respect is rapidly eroding under Reid's leadership. I mean, imagine the state of mind with which one must be necessarily beset, to be brazen enough to basically run over the will of over half of the population of the United States of America. We see the power of our senators and our way of life, evaporating before our eyes here.

Doesn't Boner do the same with the democrats in the House?

My only concern is judicial appointments. Obama has and will appoint solely those who see the US Constitution, or the dismantling of said constitution, as he sees it.

If you think Obama is dangerous now, let him get control of the federal courts. If he ever gets to replace one of the five swing to conservative justices with another Sotomayor or Kagan, it is all over. This would do more damage to the continuation of the Republic than Democrats getting control of the US House of Representatives.

Khrushchev's prophecy would come true. We would destroy ourselves from within. Republicans must do everything possible, popular or not, to block these Obama surrogates. Franklin told us that those who would trade freedom for security (translated today into handouts) deserve neither.

TheRealVille Wrote:Doesn't Boner do the same with the democrats in the House?

different rules in House. Simple majority is all it takes to pass legislation plus their filibuster rules are different. So no Speaker Boehner doesn't do the same thing:betterthanexpected:

You know, I was wrong in post no. 10. Apparently the move won't effect judicial appointments. I am relieved.

Hoot Gibson Wrote:This is all about making it easier for Obama to put unqualified political hacks into positions of power. Those political appointees will hire socialist civil "servants" who will be doing damage for decades. The real cost of electing people like Obama to the presidency is a sharp, long lasting decline in competency throughout the executive branch of government.

Harry Rex Vonner Wrote:My only concern is judicial appointments. Obama has and will appoint solely those who see the US Constitution, or the dismantling of said constitution, as he sees it.

If you think Obama is dangerous now, let him get control of the federal courts. If he ever gets to replace one of the five swing to conservative justices with another Sotomayor or Kagan, it is all over. This would do more damage to the continuation of the Republic than Democrats getting control of the US House of Representatives.

Khrushchev's prophecy would come true. We would destroy ourselves from within. Republicans must do everything possible, popular or not, to block these Obama surrogates. Franklin told us that those who would trade freedom for security (translated today into handouts) deserve neither.

These two quotes just go to show how knowledgeable some of the posters on BGR really are. Citing his personal angst and aggravation with a system which has served America well for hundreds of years to properly vet government nominees, the president gave full throated support of Reid's making good on his threat.

Though Supreme Court Nominees must still pass that 60 vote threshold for confirmation, Harry Rex may have hit a little closer than I think he really wanted to. Nominees to fill posts on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals are critical to having a regulatory juggernaut and would require only the simple majority for confirmation.
"The (three) nominees are:
Patricia Ann Millett, a white woman who is an
a prominent appeals lawyer in Washington,
D.C., Cornelia Pillard, a white woman who is
currently a highly regarded law professor at
Georgetown University, and Robert Leon
Wilkins, an African American man who was
appointed to the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia in 2009. Judge Wilkins
successfully argued a milestone racial profiling
case (Wilkins v. Maryland) in 1994
(http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Robert_
Leon_Wilkins)."


Read why DC Circuit is second in power only to the SCOTUS.
http://www.naswdc.org/advocacy/dccircuitcourt.pdf

This is a big deal. Now that the Obama administration has spent five years replacing dedicated public servants with left wing political hacks, Harry Reid is going to pack the federal courts with a hoard of rubber stampers. If Obama were not half black, the drive to impeach him would be reaching critical mass. No chance that our first black president (no offense to former President Clinton) will be impeached for any of his traitorous actions.

Mitch Rapp Wrote:This is a big deal. Now that the Obama administration has spent five years replacing dedicated public servants with left wing political hacks, Harry Reid is going to pack the federal courts with a hoard of rubber stampers. If Obama were not half black, the drive to impeach him would be reaching critical mass. No chance that our first black president (no offense to former President Clinton) will be impeached for any of his traitorous actions.

And the shame of it is Harry Reid was so hadable in his state reelection campaign it would not have taken much of a candidate to unseat him. I guess the best Republicans could put forth was Sharron Angle :please:
I'm guessing the DNC has computer models for every situation. They're going to lose a lot of voters this coming mid term but, they've got folks out there gathering data to put together a game plan to at least win the White House in 2016. Something like that is what we're looking at here. If they can't win the House or even hold the Senate how can they still ram through the meat of the liberal agenda? Well, in lieu of legislation one can always fall back on regulation, if the courts are friendly to your way of thinking. Heck, you could have a judge officially change the color of the sky from blue to green if you wanted to. It wouldn't be true, but if the law says it's green, for all intent and purposes, it's green.

TheRealVille Wrote:I am 100% for a "majority rules" thing in the Senate. Let America speak. America put more democrat senators in the senate, and it should speak that way. The filibuster should be gone.

I have never been able to male a decision on the filibuster myself. I will say that the make-up of the Senate is usually not stacked where the cloture rule cannot be invoked. I would like to hear a discussion of whether the fikibuster should be gone or not and reasons why. I guess I should open another thread on that.