Senate Dems Say They Regret Changing Filibuster Rules

[Ghoulardi]

(CNN)Senate Democrats are eager to make Donald Trump pay a political price for nominating staunch conservatives to fill out his Cabinet, hoping to exact revenge for the GOP's stubborn opposition to President Barack Obama's nominees.

But there is little they can do about it -- and some top Democrats are now coming to regret it.

That's because Senate Democrats muscled through an unprecedented rules change in 2013 to weaken the power of the minority party to filibuster Cabinet-level appointees and most judicial nominees, now setting the threshold at 51 votes -- rather than 60 -- to overcome tactics aimed at derailing nominations.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/senate-democrats-nuclear-option-donald-trump/index.html

No, they regret that their attempt to screw Repubs has come back to screw them. Hoisted by their own petard.

[walkstall]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/senate-democrats-nuclear-option-donald-trump/index.html

No, they regret that their attempt to screw Repubs has come back to screw them. Hoisted by their own petard.

Democrat Senators do not look down the road.  There just like kids they want it right now!!!  Until the shoe is on the other foot.   

[kit saginaw]

they regret that their attempt to screw Repubs has come back to screw them. Hoisted by their own petard.

I think in some far-flung quadrant of their minds, Dems were counting on the media to whitewash the history of the rule-change nuclear option of ever having existed. 

They perpetually live in a 1968 Star Trek universe of plastic rocks and blue curtains.

[supsalemgr]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/politics/senate-democrats-nuclear-option-donald-trump/index.html

No, they regret that their attempt to screw Repubs has come back to screw them. Hoisted by their own petard.

I just hope McConnell will utilize this opportunity. We never know with all the RINO's in the senate.

[taxed]

 

[tac]

They should regret the rule change, since it's coming back to bite them in the ass. 

[Ghoulardi]

They should regret the rule change, since it's coming back to bite them in the ass. 

And the amusing thing is that they were all warned it come back to bite 'em before they passed it.

[Solar]

Wow, I knew the left was out of touch with their base, but I had no idea it was this bad.
Hell, even Biden knew it was bad, he even warned them the party was in trouble.
Oh wait, Biden making an intelligent warning? No wonder, Biden has a really bad record of making smart choices.

[tac]

And the amusing thing is that they were all warned it come back to bite 'em before they passed it.

Liberals are so stupid.

[Cryptic Bert]

The next few years are going to entertaining. Assuming the GOP found their testicles.

[supsalemgr]

The next few years are going to entertaining. Assuming the GOP found their testicles.

That is a pretty big assumption.

[Solar]

The next few years are going to entertaining. Assuming the GOP found their testicles.

Assuming they ever had any in the first place.

[Cryptic Bert]

Assuming they ever had any in the first place.

So it's just like New Years. We're watching to see the ball drop.

[Solar]

So it's just like New Years. We're watching to see the ball drop.

Sometimes they never drop, no matter how hard you pull.