Why did Harry Reid go nuclear? Here's why, in one image & Senate GOP blows itself up: What the hell were they thinking? 21NOV13

MORE on the Democrats restoring some sense of order to the US Senate and the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth by the repiglicans and tea-baggers, who did bring this on themselves. Here are several articles from Daily Kos...

by Ian ReifowitzFollow

attribution: Senate Democrats

As I wrote recently:

Republicans have sought, as a rule, to use every tactic imaginable to block the initiatives and policies proposed by this president. They've done so since the night of his inauguration. The use of the filibuster by the Republican minority to block President Obama's nominees (judicial and executive branch) is part of an unprecedented ratcheting-up of the use of that tactic. As Gail Collins so wonderfully put it, we're now at a point where the nomination of a new Federal Reserve Chair cannot come to a vote until Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) decides there's been sufficient discussion of Benghazi.

Great work, Senator Reid, and kudos to the other fifty-one Senate Democrats who did the right thing today. It's a new day for the U.S Senate.

Originally posted to Ian Reifowitz on Thu Nov 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM PST.

Also republished by Daily Kos. 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/21/1257328/-Why-did-Harry-Reid-go-nuclear-Here-s-why-in-one-image?detail=email 

Senate Democrats put a huge dent in Republican obstruction by eliminating the filibuster on almost all executive branch and judicial nominations. Supreme Court nominees are the only remaining exception.

Here is our coverage of this tremendous victory:

• Senate GOP blows itself up: What the hell were they thinking? by kos


• Why did Harry Reid go nuclear? Here's why, in one image by Ian Reifowitz


• McConnell: For going nuclear before he was against it by Joan McCarter


• The rules have changed: Reid pulls trigger on nuclear option by Joan McCarter


• Filibuster reform is a reality. Read today's action as it happened by OllieGarkey


• What's next for filibuster reform by Joan McCarter


• Don't forget the blogger who started fighting for filibuster reform before it was polite to do so by fiver


• Bring on the judicial nominations! by Joan McCarter

We founded the Daily Kos email activism program in August 2010 with a petition urging Senate Democrats to reform the filibuster.

Today, almost 1,000,000 filibuster reform actions later, we won an enormous victory that will transform the courts with waves of nominees who will slowly pull the American judicial system out of the grip of corporate power.

We really can change things if we work together. Thank you.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers
Senior Campaign Director, Daily Kos