look at the graph next to harry reid. politics as usual???? hell no.

[spanone]

[ProSense]

1. And the judicial nominees are worse:

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

[spanone]

3. it's beyond politics......

[Enthusiast]

25. Yes, it's racism this time....nt

[SalviaBlue]

2. K&R

Great Pic!!

[shenmue]

4. Thank you Sen. Reid

[malaise]

5. Freaking perfect

Rec

[spanone]

6. i'll call it racism....i can see no other precedent for it.

look at those numbers.

[malaise]

7. It is what it is

Racism

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. I don't think it's all racism.

It may have started out that way. But now, I think they hate us, too. They show no respect for their constituents, meaning the citizens of this country.

Maybe they hate US, because we like the President. Maybe they don't want us to have anything, so that they can have more. Maybe they are just fully owned parrots for the large corporations. I really think it's the latter.

[malaise]

16. THey have no respect for the citizens of the USA because you dared to vote for Obama

and did not support the 1%.

[spanone]

19. no other President has been opposed to this extent. NONE ZIP ZILCH ZERO in our entire history.

now let's see, what's different about this President?????

[AAO]

22. He's good at basketball, but bad at bowling?

Nah, I didn't think that was it.

[AAO]

21. Correct answer

"Maybe they don't want us to have anything, so that they can have more."

[PatSeg]

24. Some of it could be racism,

but I think some of it is catering to the racists in their base. A lot of it is the fact that republicans are just piss-poor losers. If they can't win, they don't want to play. This is an accelerated continuation of the crap they pulled in the Clinton years. How dare anyone beat them!!! Especially if the person who beat them is younger, better looking, and cooler than them.

Sure wouldn't want to play chess or Scrabble with them.

[Cracklin Charlie]

31. I do think this element is there.

They do envy this President's popularity. Same with Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama. They know that all their money is no match for the power of public opinion. And I also think that President Obama is a master at realizing the value of public opinion. It was no mistake that they mocked his "community organizer" credentials. They were afraid of it.

Jealousy is an ugly characteristic, because many bad emotions swirl all around it.

[PatSeg]

34. A lot of them still resent the cool, smart kids in high school

Now, like then, they'll do everything they can to tear the cool ones down. They even tried to create their own "cool guy" by electing Reagan and building a myth around him, so they could say for decades that they had a cool guy too! Unlike Democrats, they built him up to god-like proportions, attributing everything good and miraculous to their charismatic leader (matters not whether it is true of course).

Sadly, they were never able duplicate that experience, so decades later, they're still calling upon his memory!

[Ikonoklast]

50. Notice that they talk less about Reagan lately? Wonder why...

Probably because most of them would not have voted for reagan, if he was alive and ran for office today.

[PatSeg]

56. Yeah, that is true

I hadn't realized it until you brought it up. For the longest time, republicans had to say "Reagan" in every other sentence. It was rather pathetic to watch. I wonder what is going on in their limited little minds now. Probably best not to know I suppose.

[IrishAyes]

33. And on top of all that, THEY HATE US.

I'd shoot myself if I thought scum such as that liked me.

They hate us because we're different from them and because we're taking their power away at some point, sooner or later. It IS racism; obviously they hate African Americans, but they hate the white people with them too. I've been told to my face that I'm a race traitor and "definitely one of the first people we're coming after". The main reason they haven't yet is because they know I'd take more than a few of them with me, and they're cowards on top of being bullies. Imagine hating/fearing a little old lady hardly 5 feet tall!

[Dustlawyer]

36. It is NOT ALL racism! They want to hold these over so they can continue stacking the Courts!

They have majority Republican Judges in almost all Courts of Appeals, including the very important D.C. court of Appeals. The concern is Obama can tip the balance on many if allowed to fill the appointments. They want to continue stripping our rights in favor of Big Business. Obama has been appointing corporate leaning Democrats anyway, but still not usually as bad as the hard liners Republican Presidents like W. Were appointing.

[BlueToTheBone]

49. It's racism and classism

We are just OFUs in their minds and are good only as votes. But they hate Obama for not being a white man in the White House and they hate Michelle even more because she is the epitome of class.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Indeed. n/t

[AAO]

20. You could paint him white

and they'd still hate him. Teabagger: "I don't know, I still think there's a nigra under there!".

[MADem]

38. B I N G O....! ! ! nt

[Rex]

9. Gee...what sets this POTUS apart from any other POTUS?

Just cannot imagine why the GOP is having such a hard time working with this POTUS...racism much?

The GOP - scum of the earth and proud of it.

[Major Hogwash]

10. The Republican Senators were acting like thugs.

And it was blatantly obvious that they were trying to prevent the duly elected President of the United States, President Obama, from being able to run the federal government by blocking his executive nominees, those people chosen to run the various departments of the federal government.

[malaise]

17. Well Major Hogwash

They are Re[bTHUGs

[AAO]

11. Over that period 87R-9D filibusters on executive nominees.

Who is playing fair, and who is not? hmmmmm....

[bigbrother05]

15. B..B..B..But..Bork!!1!

Don't you know that it's all the Dems' fault that the Judicial noms are so controversial?

[AAO]

18. I don't recall hearing about pubic hair soft drinks lately...

[Jamaal510]

12. .

[Sheri]

14. thanks, harry.

[DeeDeeNY]

23. The mainstream press has a tough job with this

They have to find a way to show "both sides are to blame".

[malaise]

26. Shrum says Republicans are fair the way Ted Cruz is balanced

[spanone]

27. i heard that!!!!!!

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[malaise]

28. Too freaking good

[malaise]

29. Joy Reid is a real pro

She's enjoying herself - loved the line about winning without the Supreme Court.

[calimary]

51. She's terrific! I love Joy Reid! Brilliant and quick-witted.

I find myself saying "Damn, that was a good one, girlfriend" over and over when I watch her. I hope she gets her own show. I think she's just great!

[malaise]

53. Yes she deserves her own show

Cancel that crap at 3.00pm

[Mikeystyle]

30. worth 1,000 words

--but Republicans won't hear any of them.

[spanone]

32. another graph...

[mountain grammy]

35. This is just a good day, period!

[maindawg]

37. well you have to fight fire with fire

these people do not negotiate. They do not legislate. These people are animals. You have to be just as determined as they are. They are working tirelessly right now on the next election. Its like we are already in the stretch.Hell they are already canvassing like crazy. Protesting and screaming from the tops of their church steeples. They are desperate. And desperate people are dangerous people. Nuke it, should have been done two years ago.

[ReRe]

39. K&R

Nope, spanone, that ain't politics as usual, that's in-your-face racism, 21st century style. It's as racist as Bloomberg's racist "stop-and-frisk."

[Cha]

40. I love Graphs.. they show it just like it. Right there

in Colors!

Thanks spanone~

[Iliyah]

41. Corporate media already is calling the decision DOOM!

Second, Pres O at a new LOW!

Third, OBAMACARE is BAD!

Plus they are allowing the RWers nut cases to sound off . . .

Same old bullshit.

[spanone]

42. GOOD that means it will be extremely effective.

[Cha]

44. The GOPropaganda Machine is blaring their stupid horn. nm

[Gothmog]

43. According to Norm Ornstein at AEI, McConnell wanted the nuclear option triggered

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

[Cha]

45. We Have To Keep The Senate and Win Back The House! nm

[spanone]

46. absolutely.

[blue14u]

47. It is our # one duty!!!

We must win in 2014!!!!

in House and Senate seats in a majority.. And we can

do it... Stay focused and get out and vote!!!

2014 will be ours if we stick together and vote as a block!!!

A block to keep the repukes out!!!!

Clean sweep 2014!

[motocicleta2]

55. fair enough

Yet I believe that for some godforsaken reason Reid finally got it right - this is not a worry for the current Democrats because the current GOP is imploding and will have a very different form if they ever get the chance to make such decisions again. Nothing points towards these turds being in power to invoke any rules anytime soon.

[Warren DeMontague]

48. At least they didn't wait until right before the next election.

Hope they make the most of this.

[PatrynXX]

52. How Harry Reid started it have no idea

since the numbers are 2 down from Clinton. Mitch can't add

[arthritisR_US]

54. Very poignant! nt