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Blow It Up, Harry!

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Could this really be happening?

Senate Democrats are on the verge of moving to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, aides and senior party leaders said Wednesday, a move that would deprive Republicans of their ability to block President Obama’s picks for cabinet posts and the federal judiciary and further erode what little bipartisanship still exists in the Senate.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, is poised to move forward on Thursday with a vote on what is known on Capitol Hill as the “nuclear option,” several Democrats said. Mr. Reid and the senators who have been the most vocal on stopping the Republican blockade of White House nominees are now confident they have the votes to make the change.

I would think that the Republicans would try to peel off some marginal Dems by letting at least one nominee to the D.C. Circuit through, but there’s also the possibility that Republicans have just completely lost any capacity for strategic thought, or may have convinced themselves that the filibuster doesn’t massively favor reactionary interests.

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