Originally Posted by
indy_93accordex
Yes but you do realize that filibusters restrict you from even getting to the veto point. The 110th Congress has far surpassed the record usage of filibusters.
Forgot to add, you typically don't veto your own party, which has been at the Congressional Majority 6 out of 8 years. In addition, if you didn't realize the Republican's were going to change how filibusters work and their constitutionality, in essence strong arming the minority party.
Here's the wiki link to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibus...Senate_history
In 2005, a group of
Republican senators led by
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-
TN), responding to the
Democrats' threat to filibuster some judicial nominees of
President George W. Bush to prevent a vote on the nominations, floated the idea of making a rules change to eliminate filibusters on judicial nominees with the justification that the current Senate rules allowing such filibusters are unconstitutional. Senator
Trent Lott, the junior Republican senator from
Mississippi, named the plan the "
nuclear option." Republican leaders later referred to the plan as the "constitutional option," though opponents and some supporters of the plan continue to use "nuclear option."