I wonder how long it will take for McConnell to pass the nuclear option?

[HoosierRadical]

We won't hear anything coming from the GOP about super majorities to pass their Koch brother approved legislation.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

1. less then 30 days

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. 3 - 2 - 1

[underthematrix]

3. The best way to defeat GOP terrorists is

to STOP BUYING SHIT!!

[trublu992]

4. I'm sick literally sick I don't even know how I will get to sleep tonight

GREAT JOB HARRY RIED!

[phleshdef]

5. I think they can only do that once per year.

[FBaggins]

6. At least two years

It doesn't do any good to get rid of the filibuster if we hold the White House...

... nor are Senate Democrats likely to use it much since they would just be putting themselves out to keep the President from having to use a veto (when he isn't up for reelection and they are).

... lastly - they don't need to get rid of the filibuster for a large percentage of their agenda. They can just use the reconciliation rules.

[davidpdx]

7. Make sense

Then again forcing Obama to veto stuff could be an option they try. They can now repeal the ACA in both the House and Senate and that would force Obama to veto it. I think it would backfire though.

[FBaggins]

8. The ACA fight will probably not be a veto

At least... not directly.

Republicans can pass a budget through reconciliation (so it can't be filibustered) that fails to fund ACA pieces that they disagree with. The president won't have a "kill ACA" bill to veto, he'll be forced to threaten to shut down the government by not signing the budget.

[jmowreader]

9. What ACA pieces do they agree with?

IIRC a "bill" doesn't have to be just about one thing, or even related things; they can slip all sorts of unrelated shit into any bill they want, with the caveat that a budget bill can only contain budgetary items. The White House needs to watch everything that comes across the transom; "P.L. 111-148 is hereby repealed in its entirety" will wind up in a LOT of bills coming out of this Congress, and Obama needs to veto every fucking one of them - with Brian Schweitzer's VETO branding iron, if that's what it takes to get the point across.

[kairos12]

10. You mean he hasn't done it yet.