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Harry Reid goes nuclear!
Yesterday, majority rule finally returned to the U.S. Senate. After five years of Republican obstruction, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid invoked the so-called "nuclear option," with 52 Democrats voting to reform the filibuster. Since President Obama took office, Republicans have used the filibuster more than any other time in our history. And, they have held up more than 1,000 executive nominees to courts and federal agencies.
Back in July, Senator Reid tried to make a deal with Republicans to avert the nuclear option. Reid vowed to leave existing rules in place if Republicans agreed to allow a vote on some of President Obama's nominees. But, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to hold up his end of that bargain, and blocking three presidential appointments to the all-important D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Finally, enough was enough for Harry Reid and the Democrats, and they voted to change the filibuster rules.
For five years, Republicans have used the filibuster to block the President's choices for important agencies like the EPA, the DC Circuit Court, the National Labor Relations Board, and even the Department of Defense. They have used the procedural maneuver as a weapon, to prevent these agencies from functioning, or to hold on to Republican control of high-profile courts. The level of obstruction was unprecedented, and the nuclear option was far over-due.
-Thom
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
In for Thom today, Dr. Mike Newcomb, The Mike Newcomb Show on KPHX 1480AM, Phoenix, AZ
Hour One: Paid sick leave- C. Edmund Wright, Conservative Commentator / Contributor-Breitbart and American Thinker / Author, WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again 
Hour Two: Harry Reid goes nuclear...what does it mean?- Ian Millhiser, Senior Constitutional Policy Analyst-Center for American Progress Action Fund / Editor-ThinkProgress Justice Quote: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write , but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."" by Alvin Toffler.
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Thom's Poll
Did Sen. Reid do the right thing invoking the "Nuclear Option?"
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Full Show 11/21/13: Harry Reid Goes Nuclear
Guest host Sam Sacks is in for Thom Hartmann tonight and talks the NSA's week in court with ACLU's Brett Max Kaufman and Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation's John Isaacs, and talks the rise of right-wing extremists in Europe with Economist Marshall Auerback. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom explains why we should just let the red states secede.
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