So, Harry Reid, the most effective Senate majority leader since Toonces, the legislating cat, is threatening the nuclear option if Republicans don’t approve some of Obama’s nominees.
Now, Reid has a point here that Republicans are being obstructionist. The Republicans objections to Obama’s nominees are that they’re all terrible… but Obama has never nominated someone who wasn’t terrible, so it seems pretty unreasonable to put that demand on Obama now. Obama is too incompetent to recognize competency; these nominees are the best people he is capable of nominating.
But if Reid uses the nuclear option and gives more power to whoever holds a simple majority in the Senate, that could come back to bite the Democrats pretty soon. There’s a good chance that Republicans will get a majority in the Senate in 2014 (just ask modern day oracle Nate Silver), and looking for revenge, they’ll probably use these new rules to even further punish the minority party. I’m guessing they’ll block everything Obama wants to do and use special rules to dismantle Obamacare. Obama will probably spend his last two years in his room crying.
Actually, that sounds awesome. Put me down in favor of the nuclear option. This could be the best thing Reid has ever done.
Horse Hockey! Toonces was a much better legislator than Harry Reid.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 cats in the Boston animal shelter than the weasels who run it now.
I do not know the individual who made the above article but evidently he is republican. His assumption that the senate or congress will go majority right wing is like most republican banter the american public realizes that the economy and the downturn are due to past failed repulican policies and I do believe that democrats will gain a majority in the next election
Nate Silver is Republican banter? Are you a mental patient or a poorly programmed Democrat robot? Or Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Stop being devided by parties or race or gender. Become americans and stand up to all who wish to destroy our way of life. Believe in the constitution a government of the people by the people and for the people. Before we lose our freedom.
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@ #2, #4
Richard & Russ, the propaganda thread is one up…clearly, navigating through a blog by yourselves is overwhelming and truly perplexing without a Minister of Information doing things for you.
Actually, Reid is threatening to turn Biden loose with a man-portable nuke liberated from a cold-war POMCUS cache, if he doesn’t get his way, so palpable is his demented rage against Republicans.
It is getting harder to laugh with all of the problems we are induring due to gready elected officials that use ear marks and insider trading in the name of benefiting the people of this great country. All laws should be followed by all not different laws for higher lifestyles.
17000000000 dollars that our children and grand children and great grand children have to repay. This is not funny. We lead the world in shameful actions of
Our political leaders who steal from all of us. Stop laughing and start doing something abont it. God help us all.
You should type in cursive. Because I don’t read cursive.
Must be a Communist
Now thats funny
They’re too smart to be robots yet too dumb to be trolls. They must be cyborgs! Or interns.
No a 52 year old electrican that loves family and country. Good guess.
He meant to say “No clear option”. He’s old, his dentures slipped, he was channeling Teddy Kennedy. If you just wait a minute he’ll fall back to sleep and we all can move on.
The Russ Hines are coming! The Russ Hines are coming!
Haha. Oppo’s cracked the code! Reboot! Reboot!