figure out the reality and the hand they were dealt and how to navigate it. and it is true what the statistics that you pointed out that the republicans gang s ga him to deny him, but they needed to figure out a way around it or pull the nuclear option sooner or it is called making deals. okay. i guess that s the issue. is the republican opposition he s been facing, is it different than what we have seen i don t think comparisons are all that useful. i work in the real world. if we were playing cards here, you don t say, well, lynn, five hands a go, i had a better hand. so what, guys. you have to deal with the hand you re dealt. the compariseons just aren t tht useful when you re faced with an obstina obstinate, polarized republican opposition who doesn t want to help you. well, deal with it.
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didn t work. plenty of bipartisan support for brennan. but it attracted a ton of attention, elevated paul s profile and even provided a little laughter. i would go for another 12 hours to try to break strom thurmond s record, but i discovered there are some limits to filibustering, and i m going to have to take care of one of those in a few minutes here. and there was ted cruz who took to the floor in late september and did not stop speaking for 21 hours and 19 minutes. technically what cruz did wasn t actually a filibust, but same basic idea, the senate was about to pass a plan to keep the government open without defunding obama care. and cruz who pushed his party into the shutdown fight, was making a symbolic stand against the deal. and really that s what filibusters are supposed to be, how they re supposed to work. if one member or a small band of members of the senate doesn t like something about to pass, you can slow things down, you can draw attention to something they care a
agreements on those. i think as to likely that republicans will hold up a lot of judicial nominations if they get a majority going into the last two years of the president s term because they know if republicans win the presidency back, those will be open judicial positions they get to fill with their own choices. i think the i think the filibuster to your point, it doesn t fix the problem of option c and partisan polarization in washington. it becomes another problem too, let s say republicans say in 2015 and 2016 let s block the judicial picks because we get the presidency back, let s say they get it back in 2016, but they get the senate back. this is the longer term issue of how our system is becoming much more like a parliamentary system where everything is a party line vote. and when everything is a party line vote, and you ve got to get nominations confirmed by the senate, i see a long-term problem there, of any party getting anybody through. it is. on the judicial nominees
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