11-12-2016, 04:32 PM
(11-12-2016, 03:54 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(11-12-2016, 11:15 AM)Anthony Wrote: About an hour ago, Joy Reid said, on MSNBC, that Mitch McConnell can unilaterally end the filibuster when he convenes the new Congress in January.
If this is true, the time for secession and civil war may be at hand.
Reid already partially ended the filibuster. I hope that McConnell keeps it but I couldn't blame him if he ended it.
Yep, very narrowly defined for Cabinet posts and Judical nominations; no exceptions at all for legislation.
As to the Cabinet, imagine a President wanting to hire people to actually run the government? Horrors!
As to Judiical nominations, the backlog was in terms of years at every level of the federal court system - do you have any idea of the backlog of cases that have gone nowhere as a result?
Reid finally said enough and very narrowly defined what could go through on just a majority vote. They specifically got agreement with McConnell not to include a SCOTUS nomination with the notion that it would prevent a extremist (likely 1-term) President from leaving a legacy of extremism for decades with an extremist jurist. How prescient was that!
The problem of course is McConnell is GOP which means he doesn't give a shit about any promises he made or whatever has come before as long as builds the Right's power, baby.