Reid appears to back away from "nuclear option" on fillibusters

[sofa king]

38. There is a reason it is called the "nuclear option."

Because, just like real nuclear weapons, the plan only gets used once, creates great destruction, and ensures that your opponent will attempt to use the same weapon against you, with overwhelming force, practically guaranteeing your own eventual destruction as well.

Furthermore, Harry Reid and President Obama, working as a team, have managed to generate an unusually strong list of achievements over the past three years by simply turning the greed and small-mindedness of Republicans against themselves. Reid did a much better job of holding back the Bush Administration with the filibuster than Republicans have done against us, because Republicans specialize in exploiting laws and rules, rather than working within them.

Worse, there is always the chance that Republicans, who work best outside of the laws they pretend to create, will steal elections until they regain control of the Senate, at exactly the same time that Jeb Bush must win election in order to control eight years' worth of incriminating documents generated by his idiot brother.

At which point we become the Fourth Reich, because there will be no way to slow them down as Harry Reid did for eight long, miserable years.

The filibuster is our game, and as long as the Republicans are forced to play it (with the inherent disadvantages their malevolence imposes), we retain the initiative. Take it away from Republicans now and they will immediately return to the extralegal means they prefer, until they can use the new conditions against us.

Or, you can say Harry Reid is a spineless coward and walk away, which increases the chances that Reid will actually have to resort to this option someday and eventually doom us all.