As you know, in a democracy, the majority rules. Unless you’re in the Senate where, because of some stupid rule, you need a Super Majority (able to leap tall precedents in a single bound!).

Senate President Harry Reid today used a parliamentary loophole to get around the rule that allowed a minority of Senators to block legislation without having to do a damn thing except say that they wanted to block it. This is why the current Congress has passed less laws than any Congress in the past 70 years. No jobs bill, no infrastructure bill, no tax reform — although they did try almost fifty times to repeal Obamacare. That must have kept them busy.

On one hand, I hate the idea of using these kinds of loopholes. On the other, this is getting ridiculous. We need judges appointed so that courts aren’t so overworked and justice gets done, and the Senate is blocking them for no good reason other than that they can. This move by Reid will allow our government to do the work it has to do. Well, at least regarding appointments. In order to keep the minority from blocking legislation, another rule will need to be changed. Maybe in January.

It’s about time that we, the majority, took the government back from a group that actively is trying to destroy it. They closed us down during their childish crying fit when they didn’t get their way over Obamacare, and they’ve been doing everything they can to prevent anything from being accomplished in the meantime.

So Reid used the “nuclear option” to try to take democracy back. I am now having a difficult time not imagine him riding a bomb down to the ground like Major Kong…

Anyway, I’d say “let’s use the nuclear option to bomb the Republicans back to the stone age” but they’re already there.