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The single biggest change in center-right political opinions of Congress and its members is the rise of admiration for #CocaineMitch. The @senatemajldr saved the Constitution by refusing to hold hearings or votes on a nominee for seat vacated by Justice Scalia’s death. 1
And @senatemajldr has worked with #TheReidRule to assure that the former Democratic Senator Majority Leader’s most lasting legacy is Reid’s insistence that Senate become a purely majoritarian institution on nominations. #CocaineMitch has also provided wise counsel to @POTUS. 2
And @senatemajldr has insisted the military be rebuilt after disastrous Obama years. He’s lead a narrow majority to blowout victories. And he’s going to keep on being Leader while driving Dem would-be presidents to stumbling, fumbling answers on what they’d do re #CocaineMitch 3
Judge Garland is a fine man, as Judge Kavanaugh has testified. @senatemajldr, using majority, declared #NoHearingsNoVotes, pursuant to the “Biden Rule” and the people voted. The smearing and politics of personal destruction never directed at him, or Justices Kagan/Sotomayor. And
lest you forget, though I doubt you do, the maneuver of nominee blockade was invented by then Judiciary Chair Leavy in 2001-2002, and of judicial filibuster by Leahy and Minority Leader Reid in 2003-2005, until threat of nuclear option by Leader First brought about “Gang of 14.”
When Harry Reid deployed #TheReidRule —that rules of a continuing body could be changed by simple majority— Harry Reid brought down all remaining guardrails and made judges simple majority votes. Now @senatemajldr should —if smears against #JudgeKavanaugh work— use #TheReidRule
The “blue bubbles” are oblivious. I don’t know if it will break the blue wave but it has broken some Senate Democrats (see @JoeManchinWV yesterday saying “You need more than just an allegation.) And if injustice is served and #JudgeKavanaugh defeated, employ #TheReidRule to bring
new nominee —Judges Coney Barrett, Kethledge, Thapar all have credentials and interviewed this summer— directly to floor. @senatemajldr and Chairman @ChuckGrassley indulged the belief that Dems would abide by rules of decency, civility. Holding the charges, @NewYorker, the latest
all demonstrate that there is no reason to trust protestations of @SenateDems. Bring the name forward as they will bring forward #JudgeKavanaugh and vote. The old Senate’s courtesies are dead because they were premised on assumption of good faith.
Key events in “30 Years War” over judicial confirmations: Bork and Thomas nominations; the “Biden rule,” the Chairman Leahy blockade of 01-02, the @SenateDems filibusters of ‘03-04, Frist threat of nuclear option then Gang of 14, #TheReidRule, washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
and subsequent packing of D.C.Circuit, @SenateGOP taking control in ‘15, Justice Scalia death and @SenateMajLdr #NoHearingsNoVotes, @realDonaldTrump win, @SenSchumer filibuster of Justice Gorsuch, #TheReidRule applied to #SCOTUS nominees. Which brings us to today...
Every tactic invented by @SenateDems has then been adopted by @SenateGOP —blockade, filibuster,#TheReidRule, majority vote confirmations. That which gets used by one side gets used by the other. Pretty simple history but folks like to tell themselves stories to get outraged.
