McConnell: For going nuclear before he was against it

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McConnell: For going nuclear before he was against it

by Joan McCarter

Harry Reid is having a fun day:

I'm old enough to remember when Sen. McConnell insisted on up-or-down votes for judicial confirmations. https://t.co/qEcBrh3yNR
— @SenatorReid

It's true. Back when he was Senate whip in 2005, Mitch McConnell helped lead the Senate Republican effort to change the filibuster rules.

By filibustering 10 qualified judicial nominees in only 16 months, our Democratic colleagues have broken this unwritten rule. This is not the first time a minority of senators has upset a Senate tradition or practice and the current Senate majority intends to do what the majority in the Senate has often done: use it's constitutional authority under Article 1, section 5 to reform Senate procedure by a simple majority vote.

In two sentences 2005 McConnell destroys all of 2013 McConnell's arguments. Just like that. What a difference a Democratic president makes.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/21/1257334/-McConnell-For-going-nuclear-before-he-was-against-nbsp-it

Oops!



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

168 filibusters of nominees in our history. HALF of them have occurred during Obama years!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024069779

[StarrGazerr]

1. Business as usual for the Republicans

I think the Republicans have long abandoned even the pretense that they vote the way they vote for any other reason than to support the position opposite the President's position. The Affordable Care Act was a conservative idea developed by the far Right Heritage Foundation, and was cheered when a Republican Governor implemented it in Massachusetts. But when the President agrees to abandon the single payer plan that everyone knows is the best reform we could ever hope for and embraces the conservative approach, suddenly it becomes the greatest disaster since (pick one) the sinking of the Titanic, the 9/11 attacks, the Holocaust, and American slavery. We all can cite countless other examples of their blatant partisanship, but the bottom line seems to be that no harm to the American people is too severe to get the Right Wing to abandon their blatant obstructionism of the black guy in the White House.