I hear you. It is a risk, to a certain extant. But going with 60% for everything in both houses would definitely concentrate more power in the executive.

Explain how Dems hold the gavel with a GOP senator in each of those seats?

Drag out procedure (perfectly), resulting in (maybe) a week or two less on the bench for all of them. Wow! Sounds like a great way to end up with nothing - assuming that McConnell might fail to get through the one Obama nominated? Or does it kibosh the deal to keep Obama’s aggressive former chairman of the NLRB?

Politi…

I see you’ve lost track of everything you’ve been wrong about in this thread. All that hand-waving’s going to lead to carpal tunnel, if you don’t step away from the keyboard. Yo doth protest ... aw forget it, it’ll just go over your head.

Oh and “It’s simple, he’s the minority leader because they don’t win more…

Maybe because stamping their feet and slowing these down by like, what, a day, a week? means that Trump gets 6 nominees on the federal bench and after searching the couch cushions at the Federalist Society gets a seventh in a few more months. But this way we got one leftover stalled Obama nominee through. And while…

You literally cannot do that. You cannot just keep talking on, say, a floor vote for a judicial nominee. The Sargent-at-arms would be called on to remove you, and that’s that And then the judges get voted on to the bench.

There is nothing in the record of these people (like, say the complete ineptitude of a Matthew…

That’s rich, coming from a guy who still hasn’t gotten the far simpler and more direct, actual reference.

And I’m not the idiot who thought the Dems were actually voting for confirmation of these judges.

I honestly think that the filibuster should go away entirely, for better or worse. It’s an incredibly anti-democratic (small d) relic that just affords too many veto points to entrenched minorities. And it will be for better or worse, in that without it in 2008, there would be a public option for the ACA (it was in…

You can’t use the legislative filibuster on Executive nominations and judges. Only on L-E-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-O-N.

Watch some Schoolhouse Rock before you come on here. Jesus.

Because Congress does more than this? That even as a minority party they get to be in the room for committee hearings and investigations and can issue minority reports and still get to ask questions and make speeches on the floor that are part of the record (and will be for the actual confirmation votes of these…

Yeah, it was one thing during the immediate aftermath of the election, when everybody was huffing the “economic insecurity” fumes, and thinking that Trump might be serious about some of the populist BS he was spitballing on the trail, to bark at Dems in congress that they needed to knock it off with that shit. But its…

It’s not what I “think”, its how reality works.

Every single tool that the GOP used to gum up the works has been removed, save one - the legislative filibuster. The Dems removed he filibuster on administrative positions and sub-SCOTUS federal judges. Rightfully! But also too late, because the GOP took over the Senate in 2014, at which time they had all the majority…

Oh this is a treat. A treat!

You actually think this article claims that the Dems are voting in favor of these judges.

You’re adorable, beyond all the other posing you’ve done in this thread, this just tops it.

THE DEMS ARE NOT VOTING TO CONFIRM THESE JUDGES, IDIOT.

They are merely allowing the floor votes to happen a…

By “rolling over” they got an Obama nominee and time to go back to their districts and campaign. The latter is particularly valuable for the Dems from states that Trump won, and the former is a damn sight better than any of you keyboard jockeys would’ve done negotiating with McConnell.

I’ll repeat it, so that it might sink in:

This deal isn’t a vote to confirm. Only to allow the votes to come up to the floor of the full Senate. The Dems could’ve slowed down the process on each by calling for procedural sidebars and running every bit of procedural frippery by the book.

But in the end they had no - zero…

They aren’t voting for them. Just allowing the nominations to come up for a vote without slow rolling each one for an extra week or two.

Or... or did you not know that? Perhaps you might want to (wait for it!)

Learn about your government, please.

The true lefty trifecta - completely ignore the fallacies of their original argument, try to skip over to something else they can “win”, and fail at that too. Yor attempts at coherence are bad; metaphor, worse. Your “only Democrats have agency” schtick is tired, too.

You... you do know that they are still going to vote against all of these judges, right? And they will still be able to enter whatever they want in the record regarding these judges, right?

Unlike the people who frequent these boards, most people don’t give a fuck about politics in the day to day. And they aren’t going…

And appropos of your being bad at understanding how politics works in the real world, you really got the screen name reference wrong, too. Try movies, you might eventually get there.