{"id":4174,"date":"2005-05-11T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4174.html"},"modified":"2005-05-11T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2005-05-11T14:04:55","slug":"guess-who-else-hates-the-nuclear-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/guess-who-else-hates-the-nuclear-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess who else hates the nuclear option?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were to tell you that a certain high-profile political figure described the nuclear option as “a radical, radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government,” you’d probably assume it was some angry Democrat, right?<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t a Dem. It was Ken Starr. Yes, that<\/i><\/a> Ken Starr.<\/p>\n

On the CBS Evening News on Monday, Gloria Borger talked with Starr about his perspective on the judicial nomination fight. He didn’t sound fond of the tactics being used by his fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n

Starr: This is a radical, radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government.<\/p>\n

Borger: Starr, who investigated the Monica Lewinsky case against President Clinton, tells CBS News that the Republican plan to end the filibuster may be unwise.<\/p>\n

Starr: It may prove to have the kind of long-term boomerang effect, damage on the institution of the Senate that thoughtful senators may come to regret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know just how much sway Starr might have with today’s far-right lawmakers, but it’s encouraging nevertheless to hear the former Grand Inquisitor take such a reasoned and sensible position.<\/p>\n

After all, when Ken Starr says Republicans are going too far, you know<\/i> they’re going too far.<\/p>\n

Update<\/em>: There’s a follow-up to this post, including a response to questions about the accuracy of the CBS report, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I were to tell you that a certain high-profile political figure described the nuclear option as “a radical, radical departure from our history and from our traditions, and it amounts to an assault on the judicial branch of government,” you’d probably assume it was some angry Democrat, right? But it wasn’t a Dem. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}