re: Harry Reid's nuclear option to appoint Federal judges pays off.

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Exactly what do you think a Republican speaker can do with the nuclear option when there's a sitting Democrat president?

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If Harry Reid can lower it to 51, a Senate Republican leader can raise it to 70, or 80, or 90 -- or whatever he needs to make sure that Odummy doesn't make a single appointment during his last two years in office. And, unlike Dingy Harry's power grab, this will also apply to Supreme Court nominees.