Posted on 11/27/2013 2:17:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".......Reid clearly felt strongly about the [filibuster] when Democrats were the minority party in the Senate, and he insisted that as majority leader he would never target the filibuster. However, as the problems with the Obamacare rollout continue to mount, and the president barrels headlong into lame-duck territory amid plummeting poll numbers, Reid is invoking his “right to change how I feel about things.” As is the president, apparently.
Reid’s change of heart dates back to October 2011, when he used the nuclear option to scale back the ability of the Republican minority to offer amendments, something he has effectively restricted for years — in unprecedented fashion — through a process known as “filling the tree.” Republicans have often cited this tactic of “filling the tree” in defense of their decision to filibuster legislation. Earlier this year, Reid threatened to go nuclear again to eliminate the filibuster on executive-branch nominees, but not for judges. Feelings change.
Prominent interest groups on the left, however, have long desired the vitiation of minority rights in the Senate and have pestered Reid to take action ever since Obama took office. The Democratic class of 2012 includes some of the most liberal members of the Senate — Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), and Chris Murphy (Conn.), among others — who have been gunning for the filibuster. They’ve also never served in the minority, one might observe. “For Reid, it’s not about the institution, it’s about power,” says a senior GOP aide. “At the moment, his power resides in the confidence of the most liberal members of his caucus.”..........
...In 1969, the year that publishers reissued Alinsky’s first book, Reveille for Radicals, a Wellesley undergraduate named Hillary Rodham submitted her 92-page senior thesis on Alinsky’s theories (she interviewed him personally for the project). In her conclusion Hillary compared Alinsky to Eugene Debs, Walt Whitman and Martin Luther King.
The title of Clinton’s thesis was “There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” In this title she had identified the single most important Alinsky contribution to the radical cause – his embrace of political nihilism. An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words, the cause of a political action – whether civil rights or women’s rights – is never the real cause; women, blacks and other “victims” are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power."
Guided by Alinsky principles, post-Communist radicals are not idealists but Machiavellians. Their focus is on means rather than ends, and therefore they are not bound by organizational orthodoxies in the way their admired Marxist forebears were. Within the framework of their revolutionary agenda, they are flexible and opportunistic and will say anything (and pretend to be anything) to get what they want, which is resources and power....... Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution - The Alinsky Model - By David Horowitz
Orwell talked about this radical democratic model about the time reptiles like Hillary were being hatched:
“One does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution; one makes revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” 1984
These people are deadly serious. This is religion to them and they are evil.
“Reid the Rat”
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That is a despicable insults to rats around the world.
I prefer Reid the slug, or Reid the Marxist maggot..
Reid would gag a maggot on a gut wagon.
It appears to me that Reid is playing end game politics. He seems to be willing to go down with SS Obamacare and by extension, Obama.
He is either headed toward retirement after his term or thinks Dems will never lose an election again.
It’s about pushing the envelope (breaking the rules if need be) as far as possible to get this “transformation” behind them. No matter what it takes. Their agenda has come to far and it must not be frustrated or stopped.
“Reid would gag a maggot on a gut wagon.”
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Au, come on...tell us what you really think, hahaha.
Why do so many of us, myself included, feel like we are heading to the culmination of some plan, some event that will result in liberalism for the foreseeable future?
In 2012, Obama was on the ropes and polling looked bad. He messed-up multiple times, yet his campaign was confident all the way to the end....like they knew the outcome before the first vote was cast.
I see this now. No real panic, blatant lies and power grabs, but a confidence that 2014 will not set them back.
You only see this in the top leaders (Obama, Reid, Clinton, etc.). Lower-level Dems do not share this confidence, as if they are not privy to the same information that lends confidence to those at the top.
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