Y'all can't possibly be comparing what McConnell just did to what Reid did.
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A rule interpretation that allowed a majority vote for all nominations except SCOTUS to one expanding it to include SCOTUS?
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They quite obviously are inherently comparable. There might be fights over whether it was appropriate or justified, but they are comparable.
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My point is,
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I get the limitations of a tweet, but we both know it's about much more than different maj. leaders & Presidents.
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I think there'd have been a nuclear option for a President Clinton SCOTUS nominee today by Majority Leader Schumer, if that all happened.
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I think Lindsey Graham was right last year when he said that the next time presidency and Senate were same party, there'd be a SCOTUS nuke.
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Neither Graham nor I expected it to be Trump and Republicans. But, here we are.
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And keeping to form, I will say he's just done what everyone else has done – if a tad more comically.
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Yes! That was my point. The latter tweet is ... the most over-the-top example I've seen, so that's the example I highlighted.
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I just figured there's no better way to show I mean it when I say "Eh, everyone does it" than by defending #Merkley.
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What Reid did was in response to years of obstructions over hundreds of nominations. What McConnell did was petty, TBH.
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Both have something in common though: Unprecedented obstruction by the GOP.
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Easy to promise up-or-down votes & to keep filibuster in place when you simply refuse to even allow hearings on a nom.
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Makes the Democratic Party seem selfish..
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Don't do it. False equivalency and u know it.
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too bad we can't harness the power of political hypocrisy - DC (R and D) could free the world from carbon emissions
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"Thank you for your leadership" is different from "h*ck yeah, nukes," maybe?
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