Majority Leader Harry Reid got his wish today when the Senate passed a rule change limiting filibusters on executive and judicial nominees.
Reid's rule change proposal would set threshold on all votes on nominations, other than SCOTUS, to 51. #fnr
— Jared Halpern (@JaredHalpern) November 21, 2013
Senate votes 52-48 against the ruling of the chair, thus implementing the #nuclearoption
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 21, 2013
Here’s the thing, though: Reid and his fellow Dems may have opened up a can of worms that could come back to haunt them, too.
Nuclear option will apply to Supreme Court nominees when it needs to be; the deal will be revised by whoever has the majority at will now
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) November 21, 2013
Hey @SenatorReid Can't WAIT for this "nuclear option" to spin around & bite you in your (alleged) pederast, statist ass. It's gonna be fun.
— Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) November 21, 2013
Some think that the Dems used the nuclear option to shift attention away from Obamacare:
https://twitter.com/RockOfAges_42/status/403587884113879040
https://twitter.com/VirgilLloyd1/status/403588835247804416
https://twitter.com/jbhenneman/status/403588061402910720
https://twitter.com/tammyrenee81/status/403594067998547968
But is it possible that the Dems have also inadvertently opened a door to repealing Obamacare?
So when Republicans take the Senate in 2014 theycan overturn Obamacare with 51 votes?… Thank you, Democrats. http://t.co/8TzFSeGjYB
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) November 21, 2013
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Can't wait to repeal Obamacare with the nuclear option…
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) November 21, 2013
https://twitter.com/Roy__Rogers/status/403590494636101632
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/403597359646384128
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time an ill-advised political decision had unintended consequences.
So, repealing whatever's left of Obamacare in January 2017 will take 218 GOP House members, 51 GOP senators, and a GOP president.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 21, 2013
Yes, people, I know this rule is for nominations. But we've now made clear 51 senators in future can change Senate rules,
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 21, 2013
Once taboo against nuke option is removed, it can be pulled again to change rules on SCOTUS or legislation,so saying it's limited is a joke.
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) November 21, 2013
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