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  • http://rgeorgedunn.blogspot.com R. George Dunn

    In 2005, the Senate Republicans attempted to educate on the Constitution, which states specifically to the process of how Presidential Appointments are processed through the Senate, for an up or down vote.

    The Constitution clearly defines how Bills are to be handled and that Congress can set their own rules as to how to get to certain levels of vote. Filibuster is a process that is in such procedure, as the Bills originate in the Congress.

    Presidential appointments are not subject to the rules of how resolutions are handled. Appiintments origninate witht the President and are submitted for a simple majority vote, up or down, no privilege to filibuster, thus no need for the 60 procedural vote.

    Yup, the Democrats are hypocrits and not all that smart either.

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  • http://www.tobytoons.com TobyToons

    Since the only thing linking this cartoon to them using the Nuclear Option on healthcare – is the title of the diary, I could use this cartoon for just about everything they are trying to do now-a-days.

    • 6eorge Jetson

      Muchos cincos as usual, Toby

  • http://jakespeaks.wordpress.com/ Jake W

    This toon is applicable to so many things outside of the current debate.

    Great work. Keep it up.

  • newyorknewyork

    Reconciliation is not the nuclear option. Nobody has suggested using the nuclear option for healthcare– only reconciliation.

  • http://www.tobytoons.com TobyToons

    from John McCormack – weeklystandard.com (here)

    Democrats often point out that Bush and Republicans used budget reconciliation to pass tax cuts. GOP Senator Judd Gregg has defended this use of budget reconciliation, saying: “It has always been on issues on policies which already exist — adjusting tax laws, adjusting tax rates, affecting this program that already exists or that program.”

  • http://www.tobytoons.com TobyToons

    “Beyond the specific context of U.S. federal judicial appointments, the term “nuclear option” has come to be used generically for a procedural maneuver with potentially serious consequences, to be used as a last resort to overcome political opposition.”

    -Wikipedia

    • newyorknewyork

      Yes, why dont you read your own wikipedia article:

      In U.S. politics, the nuclear option is an attempt by a majority of the United States Senate to end a filibuster by invoking a point of order to essentially declare the filibuster unconstitutional which can be decided by a simple majority,

      That is not reconciliation.