Republicans Go Nuclear, Change Senate Rules to Approve Neil Gorsuch

[turbinetree]

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[NoMoreRepugs]

1. How Dems frame this going forward is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT...

it may not sway a single conservatard but I like our chances with independents who have a bit of respect for our country

[stuffmatters]

2. Welcome to Kochistan

[onecaliberal]

3. Illegitimate fucks.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Theft is now legal if you can make it happen

They've stolen your election, your highest court, they steal your wages, Social Security,
Medicare, Food Stamps, your national forests, your browsing information ... take a lesson!

But stay legal!

[turbinetree]

5. Say good bye to Article II Section 2 (Human beings have died to protect this document)

and now since March 16, 2016 and until today April 6, 2017 and then on April 7, 2017 the right wing fascists have now considered the Constitution a piece toilet paper......................they have now completed there complete and utter kleptocracy and disdain of the republic--------------this what "republicans are all about party" over country and they are now on the toilet doing this number from now on



"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments."

[DK504]

6. WTF happened to this?

" ... provided two thirds of the Senators present concur..."

Mitch McConnell thinks this is a fucking game. He wonders how far he can push until the country finally cracks and god knows what happens.

[FBaggins]

11. That's for treaties

That hasn't changed.

The standard for nominations has always been a simple majority vote. What changed yesterday was whether or not you could get to that vote when more than 40 Senators wanted to continue debating the issue.

[JHB]

7. No, no it doesn't "normally" take 60 votes. It is the Republicans who have made that...

...a requirement by requiring EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T THEIRS be able to pass a cloture vote to move forward. They filibustered everything.

That. Isn't. Normal. And stop letting them pretend it was normal.

[turbinetree]

9. We are watching in real time how treason was and is being committed

even in this disgusting manner, that the fascist republicans "never" gave a sitting president the advise and consent of his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

I personally think that we should be out in the street on this and other matters of how the Constitution is now just a piece of toilet paper.

I still remember how the Roberts Court made a buffer zone out in front of the Supreme Court (100 feet) to suppress the right to assemble to protest on those grounds, like they are some how to be shielded by there right wing actions of eviscerating Civil Rights.

I always keep saying when a orange face lying racist got sworn in by a racist in a black robe this last election, because (5) fascist republican judges voted to kill the Voting Right Act.

When ever I see a news reel of three U.S. soldiers under fire on the beach of Normandy, and two of the men are struck and one dies immediately, and the other one out of the three gets a gut shot and his hit again and is on his knees, and then dies, and the other man is we are seeing is still upright making it up that beach, I think of what those three men did, they were defending the Constitution, to protect the president to have the opportunity to invoke his power of Article II Section 3.

What the republicans did today was to besmirch those deaths from the past and today and that Article II and Section 3.

[BigOleDummy]

10. Well said!

Very well said.

[rtracey]

8. well

did you really think they were not going to do this.....get the vote out 2018...ANSWER THESE FUCKERS BACK.....

[panfluteman]

12. I Have a Question for All You Government Experts...

I remember when the Republicans wouldn't even give Merrick Garland a hearing. As I was watching the hearings on Neil Gorsuch, a fundamental question came into my mind: COULD THE DEMOCRATS HAVE JUST WALKED OUT FROM THE VERY BEGINNING AND FAILED TO GIVE GORSUCH A HEARING AT ALL? Or, do you have to be in the majority in the Senate to even be able to do that? Perhaps it's just water under the bridge, and more of an academic question than anything else at this point, but I really want to know: I applaud that the Democrats got the backbone to fillibuster, but could they have even shown more backbone by refusing to give him a hearing at all? Please answer my question!

[turbinetree]

13. If the democrats had walked out the remaining fascists would have done whatever they wanted

the main reason why the democrats stay is to expose the hypocrisy of what this corrupt right wingers are doing.

But the corporate media makes it appear that democrats are whining.

WE do not hold the "majority" it is that simple, and this is why at every level of elections from the local board of education to the the presidential and the mid term that we must get out. There are 23 senate seats up for election next year and 435 congressional seats, and there are three special congressional elections going on right now, Georgia, Kansas and Montana, (we need to take those three seats)