Monday, April 25, 2005
Nine More Reasons to Reject the "Nuclear Option"
For the last month, official Washington has been consumed by something called the "nuclear option."
While it sounds like a defense bill, the nuclear option is actually a proposal by Senate Republicans to bypass Senate rules which have slowed the confirmation of federal judges.
Even though English First is proudly on the record in support of Judge William Pryor for a permanent seat on the Court of Appeals, we reject the nuclear option.
In the hope of dissuading other conservatives from supporting it, I issued a memo describing how easy it would be for Senate Democrats to retaliate. Matthew Yglesias of the liberal American Prospect agreed.
Now we have Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's list of legislation he will force onto the Senate floor should Republicans invoke the nuclear option. Lots of good government-sounding titles meant to camouflage lots of red meat for the left.
The nuclear option is bad policy and worse politics.
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