In October 2011, Harry Reid the Democratic majority leader of the Senate adopted the “nuclear” option to by-pass Republican opposition to Obama’s socialist agenda. Liberals rejoiced! It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. Republicans ran the table in 2014 and the new Majority Leader was Republican Mitch McConnell. The impact has been significant. What goes around comes around. The Republican controlled senate is now refusing to even take up a lot of the judicial and executive-branch nominations by Barack Obama. This is proof of a complete breakdown of trust between the Obama administration and congress. Harry Reid thought he was being really cute by shoving things through without even letting Republicans offer amendments. President Obama thought he was brilliantly by-passing congress with executive orders. Our system is not perfect, but the checks and balances put in by our founding fathers work brilliantly. The days of Obama jamming things through with a rubber stamp by the Nancy Pelosi’s and Harry Reid’s of this world are long gone.
It is sad to see it come to this, but Obama has left Republicans little choice. Impeachment is really not an option for a lot of reasons. While Harry Reid was gloating over his victory, he was actually providing Republicans with a blueprint to stop the Obama agenda. Sometimes you can learn a lot from Reiding and Righting.
TDM
Reid has been around long enough to have known better.
Well said and a GREAT reminder. What goes around, comes around. In this case, it bites you in the ARS.