Uh huh. Yeah, sure.

[cali]

10/29/2013

Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted Tuesday that things could get ugly if Republicans block a vote this week on one of President Barack Obama's key judicial nominees, Patricia Millett.

The pressure to change Senate rules and strip Republicans of their power to filibuster certain judicial nominees "would be almost insurmountable" if Republicans block Millet's confirmation vote to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Leahy said at an event advocating Millett, currently a Supreme Court appellate attorney.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has already threatened to invoke the so-called nuclear option if Republicans don't let at least one of Obama's D.C. Circuit nominees get a vote. Millett, who will come up for a vote as soon as Thursday, is the first of Obama's three D.C. Circuit nominees to hit the Senate floor. Nina Pillard cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and is ready for a floor vote, while Robert Wilkins is set for his committee vote on Thursday.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/patrick-leahy-filibuster_n_4175656.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2014

guess what happened 3 days later? Yep. the rethugs blocked Millett. guess what the dem response was? Yep. Nothing.

they blocked Watts to head the FHA too.

So don't hold your breath for anything to change- or for this to get much media exposure

[AndyA]

1. Wolf!

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[cali]

4. lol.

[PoliticAverse]

2. ...

[Scuba]

3. Harry, either shit or get off the pot.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. For a long time I've wondered if the Democrats really don't want to get anything done

and the GOP is a convenient excuse to do nothing. When people keep saying over and over that they're going to do something and then they break their word again and again, why should I believe anything they say?

[scheming daemons]

6. invoking the nuclear option would certainly get obamacare off the front pages

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[rock]

7. What would it cost the Dems to change the rules and not allow

the virtual (logical?) filibuster? Meaning that to filibuster the repiggies would actually put in some effort. Oh yeah, when the shoe was on the other foot, so would the Dems. Oh wait, they practically never filibuster!