President Obama set the stage for the filibuster fight by nominating three candidates for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. This is a battle that's been brewing for a long time; the Dems in the Senate are ready to pull the trigger on the nuclear option to make it impossible to filibuster Presidential nominations.
All this is about is allowing the President to run the country in the way that he is Constitutionally entitled to do. It's both stupid and wrong for the Republicans to do what they've been doing. I'm totally behind it.
Article about the nominations:
Obama calls on Senate to quickly confirm 3 judicial nominees
“This is not about principled opposition; this is about political obstruction,” Obama said. “I recognize that neither party has a perfect track record here. Democrats weren’t completely blameless when I was in the Senate. But what’s happening now is unprecedented. For the good of the American people, it has to stop.”
Op-ed imploring the Republicans to save the filibuster for only those times when it's important:
Please Republicans, save the filibuster
"Exactly the way that the creation of the 60-vote Senate, with filibusters on every nomination, was a major change when Republicans initiated it in January 2009.
And the solution is very simple. All Republicans have to do is to return to the way things were before 2009, saving the filibuster for only those measures and nominations on which they have their very strongest objections, and the problem will go away.
It’s up to the Republicans. The 60-vote Senate is unsustainable. Occasional filibusters work just fine. So they need to choose which one they want."
Exactly right. Skip the nuclear option; just stop filibustering Presidential nominations.
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