Thanks to a last-minute deal, the Senate will not go nuclear. Hurrah! Saved until the next filibuster crisis! Which will probably be next Thursday or something. In return for Republican agreement to finally confirm five nominees they've been blocking FOR EVER, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will not try to eliminate the filibuster for executive-branch appointments, and also has to let Republicans sit at the good table in the Senate cafeteria for the next month.
They get what they want. You get what you should have had in the first place. And it took how much negotiating to arrive at this "deal"?
If you call the bluff, the kid won't actually die from holding their breath?
This is a whole new level of combating tantrums. It really is too bad that we are discussing what is supposed to be an august body of reasoned men and women. Sounds more like a day care training video.
Dear Harry, can you pretty please not wait until it gets THIS FUCKING BAD before you do something about it next time?
Five nominees ... out of how many being held up, out of sheer Teabagger dickishness?
Just like the farm bill.
They get what they want. You get what you should have had in the first place. And it took how much negotiating to arrive at this "deal"?
So wait...
If you call the bluff, the kid won't actually die from holding their breath?
This is a whole new level of combating tantrums. It really is too bad that we are discussing what is supposed to be an august body of reasoned men and women. Sounds more like a day care training video.
Democracy restored to The World's Greatest Deliberative Body except for that water board Gildersleeve was on.
Senate approval rating skyrockets to 9.5 %
Wheras the House's approval rating is 434 ÷ 300,000,000. (Issa voted no)
I'm relatively sure it's the latter. I've never seen someone with a bigger chip on their shoulder