{"id":1948,"date":"2017-02-02T08:11:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2017-02-02T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:11:50","slug":"trump-might-go-nuclear-get-scotus-pick-bench-gop-uses-dem-lawmakers-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/trump-might-go-nuclear-get-scotus-pick-bench-gop-uses-dem-lawmakers-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump might &#8220;go nuclear&#8221; to get SCOTUS pick on bench: GOP uses Dem lawmaker&#8217;s own words against them"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/633394796\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/633394796?et=w2ECsgaWQutGXirPV71eZw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=jVvrYQPXx0yHeZMbED3vYqvjl6jNQkrTRMnxhYuKEkk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shoe, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/02\/01\/trump-endorses-use-of-nuclear-option-to-confirm-his-supreme-court-pick\/?utm_term=.4b8d3bc20592\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">meet the other foot.<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Trump endorsed the use of the \u201cnuclear option\u201d Wednesday if needed to achieve Senate confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Citing partisan gridlock in Washington, Trump said at a White House event that he would support the approval of Colorado federal Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch with 51 votes, instead of the 60 that have traditionally been required in the Senate to break a filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we end up with that gridlock I would say, \u2018If you can, Mitch, go nuclear,\u2019 \u201d Trump said, referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). \u201cBecause that would be an absolute shame if a man of this quality was put up to that neglect. I would say it\u2019s up to Mitch, but I would say, \u2018Go for it.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats will no doubt say they have concerns over\u00a0Neil Gorsuch, that they need time to consider, that they refuse to act. \u00a0As Philip Wegman wrote, \u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing enough that they have to fight Neil Gorsuch, a Supreme Court nominee whom they once unanimously supported. But now they must defend a position they spent all of last year blasting as indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0GOP, in a nice move, has already made a commercial that uses Democratic lawmaker\u2019s\u00a0own words against them:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NCjCuzZVZ-A\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if our politicians did what was best for the nation, regardless of who\u2019s in power?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoe, please meet the other foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump might &quot;go nuclear&quot; 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