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Related: About this forumMitch McConnell responds to Reid with a huge bomb
watch him set it up for 2 minutes and finish it off with the worst Obamacare joke anyone ever heard.
glowing
(12,233 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)How many lies and half truths can a man tell in the space of two minutes? I thought he was going to break out sobbing. He's been hanging around Boehner too much.
Suck on this, obstructionist.
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riversedge
(70,197 posts)Expect no mercy, Turt.
Gothmog
(145,149 posts)Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein are two of my favorite authors and really now about the partisanship in Washington. According to Ornstein, McConnell forced Harry Reid's hand on the nuclear option http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/norm-ornstein-republicans-forced-reid-s-hand-on-the-nuclear-option
Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, told TPM that Republicans forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to "go nuclear" after his Democratic majority took the historic step Thursday and ended the filibuster for executive nominees and non-Supreme Court judicial nominees.
"For whatever reason, the Republicans decided to go nuclear first, with this utterly unnecessary violation of their own agreement and open decision to block the president from filling vacancies for his entire term, no matter how well qualified the nominees," Ornstein told TPM in an email. "It was a set of actions begging for a return nuclear response."
He also speculated that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) secretly wanted Democrats to go nuclear so he could use the same tactic to end the filibuster entirely if and when Republicans take the majority.
"McConnell's threat, it seems to me, makes clear the strategy: let Dems take the first step, and we will then bear no blame when we entirely blow up the Senate's rules after we take all the reins of power," he said. "That other Republicans like Corker, McCain, Alexander, Murkowski and so on, went along, shows how much the radicals and anti-institutionalists now dominate the Republican Party. Which is sad indeed."
I agree that the GOP forced Harry Reid to use the nuclear option and I doubt that the GOP will respect Senate history or rules if they are in control of the Senate
libodem
(19,288 posts)I was just YELLING at TurtleHead on tv. I needed a spot to vent.
He's mad.
And I'm glad.
Woo Hoo!! You obstructing worthless POS. Sofa king glad that this makes you mad. Ha ha.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)but seriously!
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)C-span!