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Someone explain Obama-Reid's nuclear long-game.

-The DC Circuit, while important, has a very low caseload, a...
costumed really tough guy
  11/21/13
Slide and let do.
Big location
  11/21/13
I have to wonder if the GOP won't have a majority of senator...
Sooty Rehab
  11/21/13
We'll find out in about 15 minutes. They voted to end clotur...
costumed really tough guy
  11/21/13
Dems think they will have both senate and WH at last through...
transparent passionate ceo locale
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electric reading party
  11/21/13
lol
sticky cracking dog poop boltzmann
  11/21/13
lol is this a fucking joke? Hillary is literally UNTOUCHED f...
Infuriating black woman hell
  11/21/13
not to mention the electoral math simply doesn't favor the r...
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  11/21/13
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buff misunderstood area
  08/14/18
Come back harry
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costumed really tough guy
  04/17/19
Lol
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s.e.g.a.
  04/15/26
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
costumed really tough guy
  11/21/13
I believe this is called the "QUICK DO SOMETHING...ANYT...
bright contagious sandwich giraffe
  11/21/13
(Karl Rove)
Infuriating black woman hell
  11/21/13
But, but, Benghazi!!!
Unhinged adulterous whorehouse background story
  11/21/13
death to israel
comical fear-inspiring gas station
  11/21/13
supposedly: they expect the Republicans to eliminate the fil...
Crusty burgundy garrison love of her life
  11/21/13
the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral c...
Rose university
  11/21/13
dems do not have a structural advantage in the senate
Crusty burgundy garrison love of her life
  11/21/13
I know, but my point is that they have a structural advantag...
Rose university
  11/21/13
Elaborate, shitlib
Infuriating black woman hell
  11/21/13
Obama has done all sorts of things using the EPA and the Dep...
Rose university
  11/21/13
"the democrats have a structural advantage in the elect...
costumed really tough guy
  11/21/13
VA going blue seems to make GOP done here.
ivory space
  11/21/13
demography is destiny
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(chuck grassley aide)
Elite Vigorous Athletic Conference Lay
  11/21/13
How you been, friend.
costumed really tough guy
  11/21/13
how mad are you that john roberts thinks dc circuit requires...
Elite Vigorous Athletic Conference Lay
  11/21/13
Stupid to say DC Circuit requires 11--when it had 12, they c...
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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:50 AM
Author: costumed really tough guy

-The DC Circuit, while important, has a very low caseload, and these three judges are not going to have a very significant impact, especially with a lot of senior Reagan-era nominees still staffing cases.

-Maybe his goal is to staff the bench with 50- to 52-year-old judges who'll be shortlisted for the next Democratic administration for SCOTUS. But that's a very very long game and assumes that no one else in the wings is any good for a short list.

-There's only a couple of years left in his term for him to even get nominees through, and he's nominated at a lower rate.

So while I get that Obama and Reid have advantages to going nuclear, doesn't this, in the long run, likely fail a Rawlsian test in terms of long-term advantage?

Anyone liberals want to defend on the basis of something I'm missing. tyia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481933)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:51 AM
Author: Big location

Slide and let do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481959)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:55 AM
Author: Sooty Rehab

I have to wonder if the GOP won't have a majority of senators pretty soon, in which case Reid will be glad to have been bluffing. He's a shrewd, craft parliamentarian, so I assume it's a bluff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481974)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
Author: costumed really tough guy

We'll find out in about 15 minutes. They voted to end cloture on a nominee (failed), they vote to adjourn (failed), they're voting on whether to reconsider the cloture vote at the moment. Endgame now, unless a last-second negotiation comes through.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481985)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
Author: transparent passionate ceo locale

Dems think they will have both senate and WH at last through 2020

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481986)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:01 PM
Author: electric reading party



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:29 PM
Author: sticky cracking dog poop boltzmann

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482162)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: Infuriating black woman hell

lol is this a fucking joke? Hillary is literally UNTOUCHED from this rollout 3 years before the election

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482166)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:32 PM
Author: sticky cracking dog poop boltzmann

not to mention the electoral math simply doesn't favor the republicans anymore no matter how you arrange the swing states. Even if they could take FL, OH and VA back they'd still lose

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482182)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: buff misunderstood area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#36618339)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: Vivacious bipolar associate

Come back harry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#36618343)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:16 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102393)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:17 PM
Author: Jet vengeful ape

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102401)



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Date: April 15th, 2026 12:14 PM
Author: s.e.g.a.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#49819243)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:02 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy

(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482007)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:58 AM
Author: bright contagious sandwich giraffe

I believe this is called the "QUICK DO SOMETHING...ANYTHING...TO CHANGE THE CURRENT MEDIA NARRATIVE" tactic.

Or perhaps that tactic's cousein, the "WE'RE GETTING DESTROYED IN THE MEDIA ALREADY, MIGHT AS WELL CRAM IN AS MUCH BAD SHIT AT ONCE AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE SO MANY MINUTES OF AIRTIME TO BLAST US" gambit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481995)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: Infuriating black woman hell

(Karl Rove)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482172)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: Unhinged adulterous whorehouse background story

But, but, Benghazi!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482602)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:00 PM
Author: comical fear-inspiring gas station

death to israel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482001)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:05 PM
Author: Crusty burgundy garrison love of her life

supposedly: they expect the Republicans to eliminate the filibuster when they win a narrow majority (possibly as soon as 2014), so just do it now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482027)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:06 PM
Author: Rose university

the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral college and will probably hold the white house for the foreseeable future, even though gerrymandering and rural districts will keep the gop in control of the house. if a democratic president has a friendly DC circuit he can simply do whatever he wants and get them to rubber stamp it.

obama is already going this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482034)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:27 PM
Author: Crusty burgundy garrison love of her life

dems do not have a structural advantage in the senate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482156)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: Rose university

I know, but my point is that they have a structural advantage in the electoral college. They want to get these DC circuit nominees confirmed so the president act unilaterally.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482167)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:31 PM
Author: Infuriating black woman hell

Elaborate, shitlib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482181)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:33 PM
Author: Rose university

Obama has done all sorts of things using the EPA and the Department of Justice. He's done everything from imposing new coal regulations to unilaterally stopping the deportation of "Dreamers." He's become an imperial president.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482184)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:41 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy

"the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral college"

lol@ this post-November 2012 meme.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482539)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:47 PM
Author: ivory space

VA going blue seems to make GOP done here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482574)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: Rose university

demography is destiny

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482608)



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Date: November 9th, 2017 8:58 AM
Author: costumed really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#34641763)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:39 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#36618330)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:17 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102394)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: Jet vengeful ape



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102403)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:55 PM
Author: Elite Vigorous Athletic Conference Lay

(chuck grassley aide)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482633)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:56 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy

How you been, friend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482644)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:59 PM
Author: Elite Vigorous Athletic Conference Lay

how mad are you that john roberts thinks dc circuit requires 11 judges and that "lowest caseload" is a crock of horseshit as a metric

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482666)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 2:24 PM
Author: costumed really tough guy

Stupid to say DC Circuit requires 11--when it had 12, they cut a vacant seat and moved it over to the Ninth Circuit in 2007 because the DC Circuit caseload is so low. They should cut it to 9. But the GOP is stupid for saying "well it's so low so we should just leave it vacant." No, the solution is to statutorily amend the number of seats on the DC Circuit, not to refuse to fill vacancies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482851)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: Jet vengeful ape



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102404)