What’s your reaction to the Democrats finally pulling the trigger on the “nuclear option”? That’s what we’re discussing right now in The Hive (sub req).
TPM Reader JEB, a former Republican Senate staffer, with some strong words for Senate Republicans:
I’m excited to announce that you can now use your TPMPrime membership on the smartphone mobile version of TPM. What does that mean? The big thing is that it allows you to see the smartphone mobile version of the site without any display ads. Ever. So cleaner, faster and with none of the annoying hovering stuff. To log in on your smartphone, click the rotary icon at the upper right hand of the site and you can log in there.
Even if you’re not a subscriber, you’ll find a lot of changes to like in the new version of the site we launched Tuesday evening. It has a quicker, more fluid design and comments are now enabled.
For the programmers and tech nerds out there, the new version of our smartphone mobile site is built with Ember.
Two significant developments out of California late today. The state’s Obamacare marketplace, Covered California (1) rejected the White House’s Obamacare “fix,” and (2) extended the deadline to get enroll for insurance that takes effect Jan. 1. Dylan Scott explains the significance at each of those preceding links.
I haven’t written much this week because I’ve been traveling. But there was one point I wanted to make about the changes to the filibuster rules – particularly the resistance of certain Democratic constituencies to these changes. Yet I see that TPM Reader LF has basically beaten me to it.
There were a lot of great moments during Utah Attorney General John Swallow’s (R) announcement that he was resigning amid scandal, but the first quote in this story really was the best.
We’ll have more soon on what turned out to be a pretty defiant press conference. In the meantime, here’s the breaking news: Utah’s Republican attorney general has announced his resignation, citing the scandal that has plagued him for months.
This scandal in Utah has been simmering for months. Now it looks like it’s going to bring down Republican Attorney General John Swallow. Local newspapers are reporting he is expected to resign before the week’s end.
Speaking on the Senate floor shortly after the filibuster rule change was pushed through over his objections and that of all of his Republican colleagues, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) was explicit: When Republicans control the White House and Senate, they will change the Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster for the Supreme Court, too.
It’s the GOP warning that there will be hell to pay — “a heavy, heavy price,” in John McCain’s words — when they are in the majority. Abortion, civil rights, environmental laws. We’ll hit you where it hurts.