[Nachum]

What goes around, comes around- Harry

[cotton1706]

There is a solution to this threat: NO MORE UNANIMOUS CONSENTS!

Have the senate vote on absolutely everything. Get these people on the record for every single vote they take. No voice votes. Yeas and Nays for everything.

And an extra check is the House. No negotiations with the senate before they pass something. Let them pass a bill, get their members on the record, and then the negotiations with the House begin (as is the proper legislative conference process).

Harry Reid hates to have to take votes. He hates having to put his members on the record. And he hates not knowing what’s going to happen ahead of time. He wants himself, Boehner, and Obama to get together, decide what’s going to happen, then ram it through.

The answer to tyranny is regular legislative order, each House acting on its own issues, holding votes on them, then going to conference, agreeing on one common piece of legislation, passing it and THEN sending it to the president. There should be lots of votes, lots of conference committees and lots of votes. Make the senators work for their pay!

[Noamie]

Harry would sing a different tune if we had taken the Senate yesterday. What a real pathological d$%^che.

[KarlInOhio]

(Don't let Harry Reid read this) There is a simple way to do this without changing the rules. Force actual filibusters. No more mailing in the prepaid reply card with the "Filibuster" block checked. Make the filibustering party actually hold the floor 24 hours a day. Knowing the Republicans, they'll fold sometime around 8:45am.

I told the Republicans the same thing when they held the majority, but I wouldn't expect the Dems to fold that quickly.

[GeronL]

What filibuster?

When was the last time the GOP actually did a real filibuster?

[Florida native]

good, let them have their way...and when things fail, they own it.

[Bronzy]

Sure Harry wants to limit filibusters. Obama’s win means he owns the economy. That is good. However, I perhaps see two Supreme Court retirees. Change the rules fast to prevent republicans in the Senate from stopping a liberal takeover of the court. Do we have enough fighters in the Senate without a rule change?

[rawcatslyentist]

What power does Congrease really have?

0m0slem can declare them in recess at will.

[logic101.net]

Abuse of the filibuster process? Does anyone remember the Bush years?

[ExCTCitizen]

Republicans, who have 47 of the chamber’s 100 seats in this current Congress,

How many seats did we lose yesterday??

[Mike Darancette]

What goes around!!! (See my Tagline)

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

We used to say that that amnesty would not pass because:

1) The GOP would not pass it in the House

2) It would be filibustered in the senate.

Now, Boehner says he will make a “comprehensive immigration” deal with Obama and Reid is working on the filibuster rule