VIDEO: Obama & Dems in 05 – “Nuclear Option” Arrogant Power Grab
From naked emperor news and posted at Breitbart TV
Amazing hypocrisy!
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Newsworthy, Obama's Agenda, Obamacare, Video.
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From naked emperor news and posted at Breitbart TV
Amazing hypocrisy!
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Newsworthy, Obama's Agenda, Obamacare, Video.
Comments: (3) | Print This Post
[...] an up or down vote on qualified appointees based on political ideology was unprecedented. But Democratic Senators were outraged and called this the “nuclear option.” Then Senator Barack Obama worried that Republicans would change the character of the Senate [...]
[...] When he was a United States Senator back in 2005 and Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, President Obama stated on multiple occasions that consistent with Senate rules and the intent of our nation’s founders, judicial appointments, executive appointments and significant legislation should all be passed with 60 vote super majorities in the Senate. Indeed this is the well established legal procedure taught in schools and utilized year after year in Washington to prevent what liberal Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) has called the “tyranny of the majority.” [...]
[...] Remember, in 2005, then Senator Obama and fellow Democrats called Reconciliation an “arrogant power grab.” [...]