"Nuclear Option" = "Reps tell Dems when they can Filibuster" = bu**sh*t

[rpgamerd00d]

Are the Dems just... stupid?

They can't possibly ALLOW the Republicans to simply tell them when they CAN and CANNOT use a filibuster !

That is what this is about, not one thing less.

[rodeodance]

1. but it is so--they have told the dems when to filly.

[stray cat]

2. If the repubs have the votes to do it

The dems can't stop it. However, they can completely shut down any progress the government can make and bring everything to a standstill. I don't think that will play well for the dems with most Americans in regards to shutting down all government because Alito was elevated to the SC.

[crikkett]

6. well, no progress may be good progress

seems Congress hasn't done a thing right in a long while.

[WePurrsevere]

3. The Repubs need to remember that things can change quickly in politics

and in two years or so (hopefully) the shoe may be on the other foot.

If they pull a "nuclear option" on the Dems it won't be there for them to use down the road either... of course this also could have it's plus side... for the Dems. ;)

[DocSavage]

4. but

whith that change, it can also play the other way. If we were to block conformation, by staging a filibuster, you can guarantee a like response if the Re-pubs become the minority party and we take back the white house. The right would be screaming for turn about fair play. This is not the battle to wage a scorched earth policy.

[WePurrsevere]

5. I think we're in agreement ? I'm not against a filibuster, I just think

using the nuclear option would be the height of folly on the part of the RepubliCONs. It would basically be "biting of their nose to spite their face".

[crikkett]

7. if not now, when?

My right to privacy, my right to a safe abortion, my right to see justice done to the * Administration are at risk w/ this appointment.

* shouldn't be in the white house anyway, didn't deserve it in the 1st place, needs to be impeached now. How is his appointee going to improve my country?