{"id":8964,"date":"2015-04-17T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2015-04-17T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:30:43","slug":"reid-to-go-nuclear-on-lynch-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"Reid to go 'nuclear' on Lynch nomination?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is a lame-duck Democrat in a body controlled by Republicans.<\/p>\n

He’s not going back into private life without a fight. He’s picked a doozy to wage with his GOP colleagues.<\/p>\n

Frankly, it’s a fight worth having.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/harry-reid-says-he-can-force-vote-loretta-lynch-nomination<\/p>\n

Reid wants to force the Senate to vote on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the nation’s next attorney general. She’s been waiting seemingly since The Flood to get a vote by the full Senate, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell keeps digging in, resisting the vote for this reason and that reason — none of which has any bearing on Lynch’s qualifications for the job to which she’s been nominated by President Obama.<\/p>\n

She is highly qualified. She has deserved a full vote since the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended her appointment.<\/p>\n

McConnell, though, is holding her hostage to other legislation.<\/p>\n

Reid’s role as minority leader is supposed to put him in a subordinate capacity. However, he said this week that if he gets 51 senators to sign on, he can call for a full Senate vote and circumvent the authority reserved customarily for the majority leader.<\/p>\n

He’s going to enrage McConnell if he manages to schedule the vote. A majority of senators already has said they plan to confirm Lynch as AG. The trick, then, is to get a majority to agree simply to a vote.<\/p>\n

Lynch would succeed Eric Holder at Justice. Republicans already detest Holder. Every day Lynch is delayed from taking her job is a day that Holder remains at his post. Why in the world, if you’re a Senate Republican, do you want to keep someone on the job that you cannot stand?<\/p>\n

Senate protocol and decorum\u00a0are supposed to inviolable. A lot of it has been tossed aside in recent years as the parties have fought tooth-and-nail with each other. Democrats changed the filibuster rules in the previous Congress. And just recently, a group of Republicans sent a letter to the Iranian mullahs telling them the nuclear deal worked out could be tossed aside when the next president takes office in January 2017.<\/p>\n

Decorum? Protocol? It’s gone, mostly.<\/p>\n

Harry Reid’s set to play some hardball. If it gets Loretta Lynch confirmed as the next attorney general, well, let him throw the first pitch.<\/p>\n

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