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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (65260)	11/19/2009 9:01:14 PM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Not exactly so--although I may not completely understand what you mean by this. The nuclear option, as I understand it, is another alternate means of getting around a filibuster besides assembling 60 votes. Traditionally, a filibuster (a process where one party keeps debating 24 hours day in order to postpone a vote on an issue it doesn't want voted on), is a time honored means by which one party can block another party from bringing an issue to a vote. It is seldom used except for "controversial" issues. Whether this is "constitutional" or not has never been tested--to my knowledge.