Fox News Pundit Says End Of Judicial Filibuster Could Lead To ‘Military Coup’

[ProSense]

Fox News Pundit Says End Of Judicial Filibuster Could Lead To ‘Military Coup’

By Hayes Brown

Fox News commentator Charles W. Cooke on Thursday warned that the recent move from the Senate to end filibusters on judicial nominees could lead to a “military coup.”

Cooke, who is also a National Review columnist, was speaking to Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on Thursday afternoon when he made the leap of logic. “I think it is fairly clear they want to distract from the Obamacare disaster, but this is something they wanted to do for awhile,” Cooke said of the decision to allow for a simple majority to pass nominees through the Senate. “They are very frustrated that Republicans have been blocking their nominations as they blocked Republican nominees when Bush was president.”

After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pulled the trigger on the so-called “nuclear option,” President Obama addressed the press to defend the Democrats’ choice. “Over the past five years we’ve seen an unprecedented pattern of obstruction in Congress that’s prevented too much of the American people’s business from getting done,” Obama said. The result, Obama continued, is that his nominees have languished in the Senate two and a half times as long as those put forward under the George W. Bush’s administration.

Cooke did not take Obama’s comments well, paraphrasing the president as having said “the American business is far too important for the rules.” “Well, how far do you take that?” Cooke pondered aloud. “You could just ignore the House. You could have a military coup, you could have anything at the end of this.”

Watch his comments here:

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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/11/21/2980531/fox-news-pundit-says-end-judicial-filibuster-lead-military-coup/

Old name: Fox Noise.

New name: Fucks Nuts!

Senate GOP blows itself up. What the hell were they thinking?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024069959

[Baitball Blogger]

1. It's World War Zimmerman Syndrome.

[Initech]

2. Fox News: where logic takes a holiday and all laws of science are meaningless!

[locks]

3. Crazy like a Fox watcher

[ancianita]

4. And General McCain will be the commander-in-coup.

[Johonny]

5. This ignores the obvious that the work of the government has basically been upset

by people who do not want the government to work. This is in effect exactly the thing she is worried about. The government "worked" one way for all other presidents and another way for Obama. When the rules are abused by the minority to effectively upset the daily business of the government then the frame work of the government must be changed. Anyone freaked out about this change should blame Republicans for bringing it on themselves. Once again Republicans threatened this many times under Bush even though the rules of the senate were not unusually used during his time as president. I think it sucks Democrats had to do this, but it is hard to argue they didn't have to do this. Eventually either the government functions or it doesn't and I'm blocking all work from getting done because I want a president to fail is not an acceptable reason for blocking work for being done.

[beachbum bob]

6. seems like outright sedition being pushed by Foxnews....

[Laelth]

7. Ah, the Nazis are starting to show their swastikas.

Not surprised. Not alarmed, either. On our side, it's time to celebrate!

[font size=48 color=blue]CELEBRATE![/font]



-Laelth

[ProSense]

8. Oooh, you brought the tunes.

[Laelth]

10. I did!

Now I have a little hangover, but it was a nice day, yesterday.



-Laelth

[Mc Mike]

9. Treasonous repugs threatening civil war again.

The GOP SOB's SOP.