Beware Democrats: Going nuclear will come back and bite you one day.


Credit: AP/Charles Dharapak/Manuel Balce Ceneta/J. Scott Applewhite via Salon
Especially when the day comes – and it will – Republicans use it to overturn Obamacare.

When Senate Democrats took the extraordinary measure Thursday of changing the rules for the first time since 1975 – using the nuclear option – to prevent filibusters of presidential nominations, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell warned, “You think this is in the best interest of the United States Senate and the American people? I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you’ll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”

An article in The Daily Caller explained what it called a “silver lining” for the GOP:

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Beware Democrats: Going nuclear will come back and bite you one day.


Credit: AP/Charles Dharapak/Manuel Balce Ceneta/J. Scott Applewhite via Salon
Especially when the day comes – and it will – Republicans use it to overturn Obamacare.

When Senate Democrats took the extraordinary measure Thursday of changing the rules for the first time since 1975 – using the nuclear option – to prevent filibusters of presidential nominations, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell warned, “You think this is in the best interest of the United States Senate and the American people? I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you’ll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”

An article in The Daily Caller explained what it called a “silver lining” for the GOP:

LINK

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