The nuclear option should be opposed regardless of who’s in control.
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Replying to @jiwallner @BrianHDarling
And the Senate is a living breathing institution that has historically changed its own rules and has every right to continue to do so. All this pearl clutching is silly. We’ve erected a false god. If it ain’t working, change it. That’s what the senate did in the past.
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Replying to @AJentleson @BrianHDarling
Amen. Senate should change it’s precedents whenever it so chooses, like offering third degree amendments and appealing the ruling of the chair whenever the majority leader fills the tree. But nuking the rules leads to a Senate with no rules. And it’s the lazy man’s way out.
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Replying to @jiwallner @BrianHDarling
No, nuking leads to changing the rules, which is fine. Also, if you don’t consider appealing the ruling of the chair nuclear, then Reid didn’t use the nuclear option.
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Replying to @AJentleson @jiwallner
Whenever you change the explicit rules of the Senate by using precedent, that = nuke option. The Senate’s written rules still require 60 votes to cut off debate on noms.
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Replying to @BrianHDarling @AJentleson
I just read that in Rule XXII today! It’s incredible how the party that believes in the rule of law and the importance of following text routinely violates the explicit, written rules of the Senate. You would think they would change it...
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Replying to @jiwallner @AJentleson
John Podesta of CAP in 2005 - “Thoughtful voices on both the right and the left have raised profound concerns that breaking longstanding senate rules to terminate debate on judicial nominations will cause lasting damage to the Senate ...”
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Podesta of CAP in 2005 “ Should this effort succeed, it could permanently impair the ability of the Senate to provide an effective counterweight to presidential power, giving whoever occupies the Oval Office virtually unchecked power to appoint whomever he pleases.”
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It's getting late but please keep 'em coming
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Ok. “By removing the safeguard offered by the filibuster, the nuclear option would seriously and perhaps irreparably damage an institution that has functioned since its inception under customs and traditions that ensure an atmosphere of careful deliberation and mutual respect.”
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