Let's step into the "time machine" and go back only four years ago when the Democrats themselves chose to use the "nuclear option" for the first time ever. At that time, many talk show hosts who discussed this move by former Sen. Harry Reed, warned that this would eventually come back to bite them in the ass. Well, here's the facts, straight off of Wikipedia's page on "Nuclear Option". Read it and weep, you fools:
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Events of November 2013
On November 21, 2013, the Senate voted 52–48, with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against, to rule that "the vote on cloture under rule XXII for all nominations other than for the Supreme Court of the United States is by majority vote,"[63] even though the text of the rule requires "three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn" to end debate.[64] This ruling's precedent eliminated the use of the filibuster against all executive branch nominees and judicial nominees other than to the Supreme Court.[65] The actual Senate rule was never changed.[64] At the time of the vote, 59 executive branch nominees and 17 judicial nominees were awaiting confirmation.[66]The Democrats' stated motivation for this change was expansion of filibustering by Republicans during the Obama administration, in particular blocking three nominations to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Republicans had asserted that the D.C. Circuit was underworked,[66] and also cited the need for cost reduction by reducing the number of judges in that circuit.[67]
Prior to November 21, 2013, in the entire history of the nation there had been only 168 cloture motions filed (or reconsidered) with regard to nominations. Nearly half of them (82) had been during the Obama Administration, [68] but those cloture motions were often filed merely to speed things along, rather than in response to any filibuster.[69]
While Sen. Chuck "U" Schumer is correct, this is the first time for a Supreme Court Nominee, unlike the Democrats' use of the nuclear option in 2013, he's certainly being hypocritical in whining about it. As for the Pro-Choice crowd... well, all I've got to say is, show me where in the Constitution it says killing babys is allowable and I'll convert to being a liberal. And please, don't even bother bringing up Roe V. Wade. We know the truth about that whole scam was revealed years ago as a rigged decision.
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