# Harry Reid: Filibuster Reform Will Be Pursued In The Next Congress

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-reid-filibuster-reform-will-be-pursued-in-the-next-congress/640513
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [November 9, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-reid-filibuster-reform-will-be-pursued-in-the-next-congress/640513 "2012-11-09T19:46:43Z")
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#### Post date: [November 22, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-reid-filibuster-reform-will-be-pursued-in-the-next-congress/640513/235 "2013-11-22T21:48:38Z")

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> [@jayjay](#):
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> No. The Democrats did it because there was no fucking way to conduct the fucking business of fucking government with the fucking Republicans fucking obstructing fucking everything they were fucking trying to fucking do.

Are you restricting this to judicial nominations, or the entire obstructionist platform? My understanding was that the rule change only applies to non SCOTUS judicial nominations (of course it’s only a matter of time before that restriction goes away). And if that’s what we’re talking about, we need look no further back than the Bush administration where Democrats blocked republican nominees.

I personally think there should be an up or down vote on the nominees, and don’t really support the filibuster in any situation, but at a minimum this is pretty fucking hypocritical to decry the nuclear option in administration’s past and employ it now.

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