Marathon Pundit: Reid--and Big Labor--wants to go nuclear

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to go "nuclear" and ditch the filibuster.

From the Washington Business Journal:

Reid said Republican obstruction of President Barack Obama's picks gives him no choice but to change Senate rules. He plans to bring this change up for a vote on Tuesday.

"We shouldn't be waiting around here for months and months to get a vote on a nomination," Reid said during remarks on the Senate floor this morning.

But Republicans see labor unions' fingerprints all over Reid's trigger. Unions have been urging Reid to go nuclear in order to get Obama's five nominees for the National Labor Relations Board confirmed. If none of these nominees are confirmed by the end of August, the NLRB would lack a quorum and wouldn't be able to make rulings on labor disputes. That would leave workers without crucial protections, unions contend.

Business groups have complained the NLRB has pursued a pro-union agenda under Obama.