Midnightrider
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Here You Go Steve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s use of the “nuclear option” will cause a tectonic shift in our nation on everything from the interpretation of the Constitution, to the legality of Barack Obama’s executive orders, to gun control, to the climate change and immigration mandates the President has instigated through various federal agencies.
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That is precisely what Harry Reid and his Democrat cohorts wanted! Reid’s use of that cynical tactic is one of the greatest assaults on the function of the United States Senate since Thomas Jefferson wrote the Senior Chamber’s original rules.
Please see my important update and call to action below
Michael,
Harry Reid’s nuclear bombshell has opened the doors for an unprecedented advance of President Obama’s leftist agenda in ways that experts are just beginning to project.
The “nuclear option” rule change allows the Senate to end debate on Barack Obama’s judicial and agency nominees with a simple majority rather than the prior rule of 60 votes, which ends the minority party’s ability to filibuster radical nominations.
Having key adherents in place in the federal courts and in leadership roles of federal agencies, along with a compliant Senate, makes Barack Obama’s radical agenda virtually impossible to stop.
He has expanded the power of the Executive Branch, dominates the Senate, and has now seized key components of the judicial branch, thus largely subverting what our founding fathers outlined in the Constitution.
The ultraliberal Washington Post almost giddily proclaimed…
“The Senate vote Thursday to lower the barriers for presidential nominations should make it easier for President Obama to accomplish key second-term priorities…
The most immediate effect will be felt at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Widely regarded as second only to the Supreme Court in influence, it plays a central role in upholding or knocking down federal regulations. ‘It shifts the court quite substantially to the left,’ said Amanda Cohen Leiter, a law professor at American University…
White House aides and their allies said they have yet to finalize plans for how to push through another 186 executive nominees and 50 judicial nominees awaiting confirmation in the Senate.”
Please allow me to put this into perspective: With 50 new left-leaning judicial nominees and 189 executive nominees being ramrodded through the Senate, Barack Obama will not have to get his agenda passed by Congress, or even be concerned if it fails!
The President will be able to simply mandate his will through federal agencies on issues like stricter gun control, financial reform, climate change regulation, immigration amnesty programs, and pro-homosexual marriage laws.
If the lawfulness of a federal mandate gets challenged, the case goes to the D.C. Circuit Court, which will now be tilted heavily to the left.
Then, 50 more judges will soon take their seats in courtrooms all across the country in the state-by-state advance of the Obama scheme.
This is a power grab unlike any we have ever witnessed in the United States Senate, including the historically corrupt manner in which ObamaCare was pushed through that Chamber.
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said…
“This is the most important and most dangerous restructuring of Senate rules since Thomas Jefferson wrote them at the beginning of our country. It’s another raw exercise of political power to permit the majority to do anything it wants, whenever it wants to do it.”
Harry Reid says he plans to start introducing Obama’s nominees immediately after the Thanksgiving break, which gives us limited time to lobby the votes of fence-sitting Senators. We are also declaring to that body of Congress that “we the People” will hold them accountable for this disgraceful power grab! the rules in the Senate and silencing the voices of the minority party, which represents tens of millions of voting Americans, is the vehicle Obama needed to forward his plan to fundamentally transform our nation.
This was, in fact, like dropping a nuclear bomb on the constitutionally-directed balance of power in our government.
++Democrat senators have underestimated the growing push-back!
I believe employing the nuclear option was a cynical, politically motivated maneuver. As many leftist Senators head toward the 2014 election season, they thought they would have fewer controversial votes on their record for which to answer since the Executive Branch will be increasingly dictating policy.
But we will hold them accountable! Their short-term scheme will be their long-term downfall. Nonetheless, it will take years to undo Obama’s stacking of the courts as many of his judicial nominees are appointed for lifetime terms.
Every freedom-loving American should be deeply concerned and take decisive action today.
the Founders’ vision of a senior legislative body given to deliberation will be gone forever and the courts will become mere rubber-stamp endorsers of Barack Obama’s leftist policies.
effects of the Senate’s recent actions will be felt far and wide for a long time to come.
These elected representatives must be told now that they will be held accountable by citizens who love our nation and want a federal government based upon the Constitution.
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