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Court and other judicial vacancies. what has changed here is obviously the republican senate under mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell has frozen judicial nominees and famously refused for the first time in history to even hold a hearing to consider or look like the senate was considering barack obamas nominee for the supreme court merrick garland. now, republicans are writing to reap the rewards of that unusual or unprecedented strategy. depending on how you see it, this was either an unprincipled...

As people started tuning in to c--span to see something different, the cameras cut out. recess. republicans said that the house was in recess. more importantly that met the chamber would have its cameras go dark and so they wouldnt broadcast a thing. but luckily for those opposition protesters who were all democrats in this instance, their message still got out from the house floor. for more than 25 hours they continued their protest and it was actually seen because they themselves livestreamed ...

Territories the and our democrats abroad. im running for all of them. our problem, ari, was we sort of got drunk off the fact that we were able to elect president obama in 2008 and 2012 and we forgot how we were actually able to do that, how we took back control and that was with howard deans 50-state straj gee. we stopped investing in state parties. as a result the party infrastructure was broken. thats how republicans now control 33 of 50 governorships. thats why they control 69 of 99 statehou...

Differently and theyre right now arguing that republicans should actually be forced to pay a price for it, otherwise, liberals warn, that rewarding the tactic will only further normalize it. an unusually scathing christmas day editorial, for example, "the new york times" said basically the republicans supreme court maneuver was a robbery, the crime that can only be put right by the nomen ais of a centris to the bench. pat leahy called the blockade, quote, the most outrageous act of obstruction a...

Now, in the end, that particular instance was considered pretty effective at getting attention. they didnt ultimately get that instant vote they were asking for on the gun bill. but as they marched out of the capitol more than 25 hours after the protests began, those democrats were greeted by something members of congress do not seed all that often outside the place where they do business. a crowd of spontaneously cheering supporters of people psyched and inspired by something that happened on t...

Members of congress who shoot video or take any photos on the floor of the chamber. the new policy would even fine members up to $2,500 for the offense money that would be taken out of the members salary directly. the proposal is seen as a direct response to the protests from june and the prospects of those protests reairing. but if history is any sort of guide republicans would realize theyre trying to shut down a protest in the internet age usually only garners it more attention. as for democr...

Were still talking about this, why its still sending tremors throughout the global national security architecture. >> what do our adversaries think then, in your view of this? >> theyre afraid that hes about to overturn four decades of bipartisan cooperation, republicans and democrats, as you said, who have been steadily reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the world. were down from about 60,000, 65,000 nuclear weapons during the height of the cold war down to to about 15,000 weapons now. t...

Tactical perspective was pretty smart and bewell executed, the level of discipline he was able to impose on his caucus was impressive. his insight that we just have to say no to that. >> we just have to say no. and that was smart and well executed is one way to put it. president obama might be looking for ws to avoid any notes of sour grapes as he turns the over his desk to donald trump. but other democrats and liberals see this obstruction very differently and theyre right now arguing that repu...

Got 50 states, but we got six territories the and our democrats abroad. im running for all of them. our problem, ari, was we sort o got drunk off the fact that we were able to elect president obama in 2008 and 2012 and we forgot how we were actually able to do that, how we took back control and that was with howard deans 50-state straj gee. we stopped investing in state parties. as a result the party infrastructure was broken. thats how republicans now control 33 of 50 governorships. thats why t...

This was either an unprincipled, unprecedented power grab of the worst kind or maybe just the shrewd politics that has come to define the last few years, a necessary tactical move. in that new interview with david axelrod, president obama said that as a matter of politics, mcconnells tactics worked. >> mitch mcconnells insight, which ive said just from a pure tactical perspective was pretty smart and well executed, the level of discipline he was able to impose on his caucus was impressive. his i...