The Republicans could barely agree to giving us a cloture vote to debate the confirmation of the freaking general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board. That is seriously unhinged behavior. And even fewer of them actually vote to confirm him.
This insanity has to stop.
This insanity has to stop.
It’s only going to stop when they are repeatedly beaten at the ballot box. And beaten to a bloody pulp. Meaning 35 or 30 Senators type pulp.
Only thing I can add is that they won’t even listen to Roberts about confirming judges.
They just realized the truth of the old adage.
What is not prohibited, is allowed.
We need to rewrite the rules big time.
What is not prohibited is required.
To clarify, that’s John Roberts not Oral Roberts.
well they said he “isn’t a real Republican” – shows what they think of SCOTUS justices
Plus it appears that the threat of default was not defanged in the recent arrangement to reopen the government. Though Mitch double-dog swears there will be no more shutdowns.
Which is extra meaningless because Mitch actually did what he could to keep the government open in this latest episode, and it didn’t matter. The Senate did pass a CR, and Mitch didn’t filibuster. Boehner is the actual decisionmaker on this issue.
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They are voting to dilute Reid’s argument for nuking the filibuster. The more consequential nominees – Mel Watt for the FHA and the three D.C. Circuit Court judges will not get a pass. Then the R’s will claim, “look we just forwarded several nominees – we’re not obstructionists!”
Total party line on the final vote. I’m totally unsurprised; the nuclear option threat is the only thing that is allowing these cloture votes to go through. Most of these troglodytes want the NLRB to be filled stem to stern with corporate attorneys, like it was under good ol’ W.
But the Board wasn’t “politicized” then, right, Lamar?
I agree that the Circuit Court nominees are the biggest test of the truce agreement. That’s why I loved that post you shared about J. Beauregard’s pissy reaction to Chief Justice Roberts’ statement about the need to fill the empty Judge seats. Sessions knows they’re in a really bad political position there.
As far as this NLRB vote, as long as they go through I don’t care about bipartisanship. If an appointee gets zero Republican votes, that is a clear signifier that the nominee is good.
Actually, Lisa Murkowski crossed over.
Thanks for the correction. See, B., bipartisanship lives! Don’t despair…lol
Perhaps the coming wave of teabagger primary challenges will produce some positive outcomes if the survivors are as pissed off at the Tea Party as Lisa Murkowski is.
There are enough people in this country who look at what the Democrats are doing, and say exactly the same thing, to produce majorities in the House of Representatives for as far as the eye can see.
And they actually turn out to vote in mid-term elections.