Video: Elizabeth Warren advocating for the nuclear option in 2013

 I know I am asking quite a bit here but I beg you to listen to three minutes of Elizabeth Warren advocating for the nuclear option back in 2013. It might seem unbearable but trust me it is worth it. 

  So much of what she said in defense of the nuclear option back then sounds exactly like what we are going through now: she said the Republicans were engaged in a “naked attempts to nullify the results of the last Presidential election” and how Barack Obama was trying to do his job to “fill open vacancies on the Federal bench.” That is what is happening now only in reverse–the Democrats are trying to nullify the results of the last Presidential election and prevent Donald Trump from doing his job.

  Donald Trump is trying to do his job to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court and while the Democrats are upset that the Republicans refused to hold hearings on Merrick Garland that has nothing to do with Donald Trump and his attempt to do his job, all the Democrats had to do was win an election they thought was in the bag and this would not be an issue.

  She also went so far as to claim that Senators not only had the right to change the filibuster rules but had a duty to change the filibuster rules. That is not what we are hearing from the Democrats today…

  I also find it amusing that while the senior Senator from Massachusetts is quoting from the Constitution she has to look down at her notes to tell us what that document actually says…

  Here is the video:

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