earlier this week the democrats went nuclear making a change to the
filibuster rules governing
that votes on executive and judicial nominees now in the senate
you can confirm those nominees with a simple majority vote
but the fallout is here many republicans both in the media and in politics not
happy about it
Charles Krauthammer in particular is quite peeved he was on the Fox News
special report he was talking about the democrats Apocrypha see on the
filibuster
well I'm always amused by the nuclear option debate because
it is without a doubt the most spectacular display
have congressional hypocrisy which is saying a lot
because whenever the minority party is arguing it says that this is a very
important
indeed a majestic parking lot Constitution and as soon as a minority
becomes a majority
like Harry Reid and the Democrats and Obama
all assembly too terrible instrumental obstruction look as a matter of the
means in which
this was done it was at work a rather low down way this is a fundamental
change in the structure of the rules in the senate and %uh not strict party-line
I party lines which it should not be
say my internet Leo Obamacare major reform on party lines
that should not be now out before we we get to our commentary on this upcoming
year did have a little more they said
and I love the particular expression use and the sex video
as a conservative I would say I am extremely happy that the democrats are
doing this
the prospects are very strong that the democrats are gonna lose the senate next
year
and there is an actual in chair job losing the White House
at the democrats will absolutely will rue the day
because they not only are going to allow eight republican majority which will
come one day anyway
a to get its nominees through but Chuck
gradually has said that when republicans
come into power to go to include
Supreme Court nominees and that would be eight
devastating blow to the liberals on the court
and to the liberals in the country so I don't think the democrats are going to
remember
bullets day with any joy in the near future
so Charles Krauthammer talking as if he was a bill in in about me
yet sorry but only if they are as I get older you enjoy this day anytime in the
near future
today as the near future and have a good time yeah
airport 2014 is in your future yes so
II look check Grassley's threat yes i know i
if we get into power then not only will we do this for all the
executive branch tommy's goals to do for Supreme Court just as even though
democrats %uh the good as their hearts out not to do that so Obama Democrat but
up thanks for the warning so I guess we'll do right now but OK
much so from here on out system problem so they're gonna do it on their watch
they set the rule okay great so you don't get the film also sold what the
Supreme Court nominees either
okay you I keep doing press no do one more threat tell me what else you like a
yeah McCall said legislation as well plus there's a certain way through moral
clarity shall we say in their position
and the lack moral clarity it is they're saying this is unforgivable
destruction about majestic tradition to use his words
always have not let that happen here so they could all the time all of a sudden
they get in power
its unforgivable it its dictatorial
destroying a majestic tradition I want to do it twice as much really
I can help you there's a lack of clarity there don't get me a hand signal he's
lying in the filibuster is not in the constitution of
music clear mister action there that republicans all the time
they didn't say iraq a 911 or connect they just said in the same sentence
hitting say the filibuster was in the gas station but he mentioned the word
Constitution
as if we're taking a the democrats today it out at the gas station
which is not the case and remember when they originally made the deal not to go
nuclear
earlier when the democrats and the and Mitch McConnell got together
Mitch McConnell promised that they were only filibuster nominee's going forward
under extraordinary circumstances that does little words extraordinary they
then went on to filibuster
every nominee okay I guess every Obama nominee was extraordinary
rate and so the DC Circuit Court of Appeals three nominees
the republicans say we had no objections that to them specifically
but we filibuster everything Lizzy grant comes as because a bang Ghazi this or
that I didn't get to speak to somebody's barber in bankruptcy
I want to speak to every living person embed Ghazi I'm a block
every appointment so everything was extorting so they violated their word
and my favorite fact this book although filibusters nominees in United States
history
hapa have happened under Obama because the republicans
exists tell me what happened extraordinary but extraordinaire lotta
ways to play with those deaths but it doesn't matter
everybody knows what it is everybody knows that that's the relevance that
more than half what happened under Obama Eric democrats
did that the situation where exactly reversed precisely
we be five years in the republicans haven't done away with television Rd
would up
if democrats bottom like that so it's a pointless thread that they're making
this a course they'll do it
and they should independent and and they will get their armies block like that
they are
you mean all of a sudden after five years democratic doing
ralph was not I believe it's right after Levi
what I love is as you say you can talk about the stats in different ways but
they are box will not talk about
any steps they've been liable what the appointments are for they say that he
wants to stack the US Court of Appeals
in in the diplopia fill the spot or vacant something big in four years and
we're not just talking about that we're talking about
the that page a FHF a we're talking about civil rights commission that the
SEC the FCC that
easy the National Life Science Foundation the US Geological Survey
Department of Homeland Security all across the entire government these
people are being
other filibustered for months possibly even years sometimes
I O U two more things about summer 10 number one at the court of appeals level
a only 23 nominees have ever been a filibuster in history the United States
twenty of them have been under Obama from a I
ball so now by the way now ran the cell
yeah a perot judges know you and by the way now there's a terminology when FDR
try to point whatever it was
fourteen or fifteen people to a nine-person Supreme Court yeah
thats sack that stack it right but when you fill
a judge a judicial vacancy that's called a point
and you know what I don't understand the terminal and RJ that and constitution
I very specifically in the coverage judd
right and that by the way there was a second reason why they'd like everything
about was to not just be obstructionist Obama and basically negate his term
you want the presidency but we're gonna negated anyway when I go let you do the
points you would normally do
its center the second reason was he don't want the SEC DEP
function or is it because they represent the guys who are doing the fraud
on wall street they don't what regulators looking over the what was the
last thing robbers one
cops in like right there like the regulators right exactly so that's why
they didn't feel any of those seats
and by the way the most the you know effected
thing was actually the Federal Election Commission FEC and 801
anybody looking into the shenanigans over how they raise money
elections because they're gonna find out a treasure trove crap there and that's
why they didn't want those seats filled
and I'll say one more thing about this it which is that I'm surprised honestly
I thought
in Obama's second-term if you had asked me to guess how much more progressive
Obama and the Democrats would be I would have guessed 0 percent
and I woulda said the best we can hope for is a five percent that we got under
the first yr
right 5 percent changes what Obama prom you know
believes is real change but so far with this
with this couple different actions maybe Jerry L
yet 25 percent I mean we're not talking like wallowing to CJ's 180 all the
sudden they're massively little
no no but like they've gone 25 percent towards
actual progressive and strong actions yep not just like
theoretical a symbolic but they're actually doing something here
so I'm I'm truly impressed