When outgoing Senator Reid thought Hillary was a shoe-in to win the presidential election, he said (in October) a Democrat-taken Senate would invoke the ‘nuclear option’ in order to get Mrs. Clinton’s expected Supreme Court nominee installed.
(The ‘nuclear option’ drops the need from a 60-vote super majority, to 51 votes.)
Fast-forward to present day…now Minority Leader Schumer warns against the use of a ‘nuclear option’ by the Republican-held Senate, to install Mr. Trump’s pick.
My…how perspectives change.
Republicans would be well-advised to play hardball, just like their opponents.