Hooray for Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats who threw off the shackles of the Republican filibuster today.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/21/harry-reid-likely-to-go-nuclear-today/
True, it's only President Obama's judicial nominations that have been freed.
Republicans in the House and Senate can still block immigration reform, gun control, preschool education, helpful tweaks to the Affordable Care Act, and anything else they take a fancy to oppose.
But in one small area of the Senate, work can go ahead. Nominees for judge in the D.C. Court of Appeals can receive a vote, up or down. Yay.
I heard Sen. Rand Paul on CNN this morning complaining that Harry Reid was acting like a bully by changing the rules so that a mere 51 votes can pass these nominations.
Excuse me, did you say BULLY?
Trying to defund Obamacare after it was passed by both houses is not bullying?
Refusing to act on immigration, a year after the Senate passed legislation, is not bullying?
Insisting on the right to carry automatic weapons and long magazines of bullets, even after children were killed at Sandy Hook, is not bullying?
It's high time the real bullies were identified and stopped.
In Harry Reid's sober comments this morning, it was clear that President Obama and his team have had enough. They are finally standing up and saying "No more!"
Reid's contrast between use of the filibuster in the past and use during Obama's presidency was shocking.
I am so grateful for the rule change. I've been listening to Republican House leaders block this year's last efforts to try to get some kind of immigration reform passed, and yesterday for the first time in years I felt deep partisan anger spread through my body.
Clearly the President and Democrats in Congress have concluded that any legislation they try to pass will continue to be blocked. Efforts to compromise and win non-partisan support for any action are over.
To get anything done at all, the Dems will have to go it alone.
Stop whining, John McCain and Rand Paul. This is the kind of game you insist on playing. You are the real bullies.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/11/21/harry-reid-likely-to-go-nuclear-today/
True, it's only President Obama's judicial nominations that have been freed.
Republicans in the House and Senate can still block immigration reform, gun control, preschool education, helpful tweaks to the Affordable Care Act, and anything else they take a fancy to oppose.
But in one small area of the Senate, work can go ahead. Nominees for judge in the D.C. Court of Appeals can receive a vote, up or down. Yay.
I heard Sen. Rand Paul on CNN this morning complaining that Harry Reid was acting like a bully by changing the rules so that a mere 51 votes can pass these nominations.
Excuse me, did you say BULLY?
Trying to defund Obamacare after it was passed by both houses is not bullying?
Refusing to act on immigration, a year after the Senate passed legislation, is not bullying?
Insisting on the right to carry automatic weapons and long magazines of bullets, even after children were killed at Sandy Hook, is not bullying?
It's high time the real bullies were identified and stopped.
In Harry Reid's sober comments this morning, it was clear that President Obama and his team have had enough. They are finally standing up and saying "No more!"
Reid's contrast between use of the filibuster in the past and use during Obama's presidency was shocking.
I am so grateful for the rule change. I've been listening to Republican House leaders block this year's last efforts to try to get some kind of immigration reform passed, and yesterday for the first time in years I felt deep partisan anger spread through my body.
Clearly the President and Democrats in Congress have concluded that any legislation they try to pass will continue to be blocked. Efforts to compromise and win non-partisan support for any action are over.
To get anything done at all, the Dems will have to go it alone.
Stop whining, John McCain and Rand Paul. This is the kind of game you insist on playing. You are the real bullies.
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