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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchumer should send all the Democrats home early for the Easter vacation...
...and just skip the vote tomorrow.
It would force the Republicans to vote for Gorsuch with no Democrats in the chamber. It would be symbolic.
Why do Democrats have to be there? They will have a quorum if 51 Republicans show up to vote.
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Schumer should send all the Democrats home early for the Easter vacation... (Original Post)
kentuck
Apr 2017
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dalton99a
(81,526 posts)1. Great idea.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)2. I want it on record that we opposed this terrible nomination.
And that democrats fought with everything they had to stop it.
old guy
(3,283 posts)3. Exactly!
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)4. Yeah, but not tell the Repubs...keep them around missing
their planes.
The Dems need to do something big and symbolic to make clear that the Repubs are changong the rules...a sit down strike, Ads to call your Rep Senator to stop the partisanship....Don't let the Repubs characterize this.
underpants
(182,837 posts)5. RW news Media - Gorsuch confirmed in unanimous vote!!
Great idea though. Make it all theirs.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)6. Or force a floor vote on every procedural step to the confirmation vote
Make Justice Affirmative Action Hire wait.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)7. Then the repunks will say Gorsucks will have been confirmed unanimously
We all know repukes spin like a runaway top.
FBaggins
(26,748 posts)8. Letting them vote on anything else too?
Things that actually could be filibustered end up passing because they had a supermajority