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

-The DC Circuit, while important, has a very low caseload, a...
mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio
  11/21/13
Slide and let do.
Thirsty gunner organic girlfriend
  11/21/13
I have to wonder if the GOP won't have a majority of senator...
Very Tactful Spruce Den
  11/21/13
We'll find out in about 15 minutes. They voted to end clotur...
mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio
  11/21/13
Dems think they will have both senate and WH at last through...
Irradiated embarrassed to the bone doctorate
  11/21/13
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provocative pistol death wish
  11/21/13
lol
exciting slate incel
  11/21/13
lol is this a fucking joke? Hillary is literally UNTOUCHED f...
learning disabled confused house private investor
  11/21/13
not to mention the electoral math simply doesn't favor the r...
exciting slate incel
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Cerebral Bull Headed Library
  08/14/18
Come back harry
poppy partner
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mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio
  04/17/19
Lol
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  04/17/19
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s.e.g.a.
  04/15/26
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio
  11/21/13
I believe this is called the "QUICK DO SOMETHING...ANYT...
Fantasy-prone stead round eye
  11/21/13
(Karl Rove)
learning disabled confused house private investor
  11/21/13
But, but, Benghazi!!!
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  11/21/13
death to israel
wine sweet tailpipe gas station
  11/21/13
supposedly: they expect the Republicans to eliminate the fil...
Unhinged emerald pozpig foreskin
  11/21/13
the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral c...
Topaz affirmative action
  11/21/13
dems do not have a structural advantage in the senate
Unhinged emerald pozpig foreskin
  11/21/13
I know, but my point is that they have a structural advantag...
Topaz affirmative action
  11/21/13
Elaborate, shitlib
learning disabled confused house private investor
  11/21/13
Obama has done all sorts of things using the EPA and the Dep...
Topaz affirmative action
  11/21/13
"the democrats have a structural advantage in the elect...
mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio
  11/21/13
VA going blue seems to make GOP done here.
Elite Adventurous Step-uncle's House Fortuitous Meteor
  11/21/13
demography is destiny
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(chuck grassley aide)
razzmatazz chapel
  11/21/13
How you been, friend.
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  11/21/13
how mad are you that john roberts thinks dc circuit requires...
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  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: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio

-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...id..#24481933)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:51 AM
Author: Thirsty gunner organic girlfriend

Slide and let do.

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:55 AM
Author: Very Tactful Spruce Den

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...id..#24481974)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio

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...id..#24481985)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
Author: Irradiated embarrassed to the bone doctorate

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...id..#24481986)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:01 PM
Author: provocative pistol death wish



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:29 PM
Author: exciting slate incel

lol

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: learning disabled confused house private investor

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...id..#24482166)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:32 PM
Author: exciting slate incel

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...id..#24482182)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: Cerebral Bull Headed Library



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



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: poppy partner

Come back harry

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



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:16 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio



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



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:17 PM
Author: shivering yarmulke

Lol

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:02 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio

(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:58 AM
Author: Fantasy-prone stead round eye

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...id..#24481995)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: learning disabled confused house private investor

(Karl Rove)

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: indecent tanning salon

But, but, Benghazi!!!

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:00 PM
Author: wine sweet tailpipe gas station

death to israel

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:05 PM
Author: Unhinged emerald pozpig foreskin

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...id..#24482027)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:06 PM
Author: Topaz affirmative action

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...id..#24482034)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:27 PM
Author: Unhinged emerald pozpig foreskin

dems do not have a structural advantage in the senate

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: Topaz affirmative action

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...id..#24482167)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:31 PM
Author: learning disabled confused house private investor

Elaborate, shitlib

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:33 PM
Author: Topaz affirmative action

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...id..#24482184)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:41 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio

"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...id..#24482539)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:47 PM
Author: Elite Adventurous Step-uncle's House Fortuitous Meteor

VA going blue seems to make GOP done here.

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: Topaz affirmative action

demography is destiny

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



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Date: November 9th, 2017 8:58 AM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio



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



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:39 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio



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



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:17 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio



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



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: shivering yarmulke



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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:55 PM
Author: razzmatazz chapel

(chuck grassley aide)

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:56 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio

How you been, friend.

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



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:59 PM
Author: razzmatazz chapel

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...id..#24482666)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 2:24 PM
Author: mentally impaired school cafeteria digit ratio

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...id..#24482851)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: shivering yarmulke



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