Nuked! Blessed be the Holy Fallout

Wow. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) actually did the right thing for a change. He led the way as Senate Republicans invoked the so-called nuclear option today, voting 52 to 48 on a party-line vote to eliminate the filibuster for nominations to the Supreme Court. Going forward, high court nominees including President Trump’s current pick Neil Gorsuch, will need a simple majority to be confirmed. Gorsuch is expected to be confirmed and sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court tomorrow, replacing the late Antonin Scalia.

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“Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.” Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) The change was a long time coming and it is part of Barack Obama’s destructive legacy. He left his party at its weakest in a century, reduced to a regional rump of coastal elites, machine politicians, and burnt out labor leaders who think it’s 1929. McConnell reportedly said that Democrats’ move to filibuster Gorsuch is part of a “much larger story” wherein the Left is trying to further politicize the judiciary and confirmations. “It’s a fight they have waged for decades with a singular aim, securing raw power no matter the cost to the country or the institution,” he said on the floor of the Senate. “It underlies why this threatened filibuster cannot be allowed to succeed.” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) held back tears with shows of phony-as-a-three-dollar-bill righteous indignation. (Okay: I made up the tears part.) “Far from being the kind of mainstream candidate for the Supreme Court that could earn 60 votes, he may very well turn out to be one of the most conservative justices on the bench,” Schumer whined. “The nuclear option means the end of a long history of consensus” on high court nominees, he said. The 60-vote threshold served as a “guardrail” against judicial extremism, said the left-winger who expressly endorses judicial extremism. Democrats are still butthurt over the Senate’s refusal to take up the Supreme Court nomination last year of left-wing Obama nominee Merrick Garland. Boo hoo.

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