The Constitutional/Nuclear Option
Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been quite busy lately. I will make a better effort to update more often. Now for the update:
All the talk in Washington lately has been about the “nuclear option” available to Senate Republicans to end the Democrats’ filibustering of President Bush’s judicial nominations to the Federal Appellate Courts throughout the country.
First off let’s list the real reasons why the Democrats would bother doing this in the first place.
1. President Bush has nominated several minorities to the bench. This is TERRIBLE news for the Democrats. This is because the Democrats want to be perceived as the party of inclusion rather than what they truly are which is a party of exclusion. They hate it when minorities are conservative, especially African Americans. If you talk about a bunch of racist bigots, look no further than the NAACP. These people are the worst of the worst, calling Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, both the first African American male and female Secretary of State, nothing more than Uncle Toms.
2. President Bush has nominated CONSERVATIVES to the bench. This frightens them more than anything else. They hate Conservatives. They hate them with a passion. Why? Well because the facts always back up the Conservative argument and dispel the Liberal myth. This is because Conservatism is based upon facts not emotions. Now that Conservatives have outlets like the Internet, Talk Radio, and Fox News, the Liberal stranglehold on the people is no longer an issue. Conservatives are able to get their message out and the people of the US are ready and willing to accept it. The only source of power the Liberal Left has left in this country is with the courts. If they can’t get their way through Congress (which seems to be going more and more Republican each year), then they’ll get some kook Liberal judge to overturn it, citing that the law is not fair (or something to that extent).
So what is the “nuclear option”? Well first of all there is nothing illegal or even wrong about it. It’s perfectly constitutional, and that’s my preferred term to use, “constitutional option”. Basically what this would do would be to allow a straight up or down vote for President Bush’s judicial nominations. That’s it! Essentially with the ending of the filibusters, the judicial nominees would get a straight majority vote rule and at this point every single on of the nominations has got well over the 51 votes needed for confirmation, which is why the Democrats, led by Harry Reid (aka Dingy Harry) are threatening to shut down the Senate entirely if Republicans do this.
My advice to Reid: “SHUT DOWN THE SENATE, I DARE YOU!” Clearly Sen. Reid hasn’t learned what happens to people who obstruct legislation or in this case judicial nominations. He really should talk to his former colleague, Tom Daschle, who was recently elected out of office for doing the exact same thing! Republicans now have a 55 to 45 majority in the Senate. With five more votes we would have the ability to break filibusters on ANYTHING. That means anything President Bush wanted, he would get.
So I’m crossing my fingers for a Senate shut down, but I’m not totally convinced Reid will go through with it. He probably has this nagging feeling that if he does it, it’ll be him giving that concession speech next time around.