Talk about a bloviating hot mess------Rush Limbaugh is the poster boy. This is what he said about the nuclear option when Bush was president. He really is an ass. LIMBAUGH: This filibuster, as you know, theyre filibustering these nominations which requires essentially 60 votes for a judge to be confirmed. The Constitution says nothing about this. The Constitution says simple majority, 51 votes. But because theyre invoking the filibuster, which, you know, the Senate can make up its own rules but not when they impose on the Constitution and not when they impose on the legislative branch. Separation of powers here. But if nobody stops them, theyre going to keep getting away with it. Its up to the Senate Republicans to stop them. Now, this is Point 2. Theres a so-called nuclear option, which I dont like that term. Call it the Constitutional Option. It would end the use of the filibuster for judicial nominations. The Democrats are warning that if the Republicans change the filibuster rule on them, then all hell will break loose. I cant think of anything worse than what theyve done and will continue to do, which is prevent the president from appointing judges in federal court, so let them break out their new version of hell. What more can they do on this? And let them try it. They dont have the political standing in the country to do this. They dont have the love and devotion of a majority of the American people, so if theyre going to claim all hell will break lose, lets see what their hell is. But dont call this the nuclear option. Call it the constitutional option. [...] If the Senate, which has the constitutional right to make its own rules, decides that it wants to require a super-majority vote to pass certain bills such as tax bills -- and they can do that. They can write those rules all day long -- such a rule would not infringe on presidential power. But to do so when it affects a presidential power, which takes us into a separation of powers issue, like the appointment of judges, that is unconstitutional, in my laymans view.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:35:16 +0000
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