After all his complaints about Republican obstruction this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressed frustration last night after Republicans helped guarantee a floor vote on a measure he supports. Posted on 09/09/2014 12:37:22 PM PDT by smoothsailing
OPINION
After all his complaints about Republican obstruction this year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressed frustration last night after Republicans helped guarantee a floor vote on a measure he supports.
The Nevada Democrat has accused Senate Republicans of chicanery for voting to advance to the Senate floor a Democratic constitutional amendment allowing Congress to regulate all campaign speech and spending.
After Monday's bipartisan 79-18 vote, Reid vented to reporters that Republicans were trying to "stall" the Senate, indicating that he never intended for the campaign finance amendment by Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., to go to a real floor debate.
Politico reporter Burgess Everett writes that many Republicans voted to advance the amendment Monday in order “to foul up Democrats’ pre-election messaging schedule, freezing precious Senate floor time for a measure that ultimately has no chance of securing the two-thirds support necessary in both the House and Senate to amend the Constitution.”
The move not only guarantees a lengthy debate over Democratic efforts to limit the First Amendment, but it also limits the amount of time left for debates over other doomed measures on gender pay equality and the minimum wage, which were intended to frame the coming elections for Democrats as they defend their Senate majority.
HAHA,you just cant make Reid happy.
He has to have somebody to blame.
I guess no one noticed that the GOP is just as quick and happy to curtail the First Amendment as the MarxoFascist Democrats are.
It’s not just Reid that commits treason. But the majority of the Republican Party as well.
LOL! Hoisted by his own petard. Liberals are impossible. Even when you give them exactly what they ask for, they are unhappy.
Read the article. The vote only allows the Senate to DEBATE the amendment. It still requires a 2/3 majority to pass it to the House.
I don't know about that.
If your enemy is in a hurry to jump off a cliff, why stand in his way?
Harry Reid is showing less and less capability to choose his battles wisely. But he is the Democrats’ team captain, and he is reduced to only a few plays in the book.
Time for a quarterback sack. Harry will never see it coming.
Great move. Can you believe Democrats want to tell you what you can say before an election???? Notwitstanding the Constitution and the repeated Supreme Court victories for free speech to the contrary. Now get up there Harry and support your uncostitutional position!.LOUDER!!!
Its treasonous to suggest changing the constitution with an amendment? (that's going no-where yet)
Does that mean overthrowing the government by force is patriotic?
Good God...you just can't make this stuff up.
Harry Reid is MAD. . . . . PERIOD.
GOP is thinking? I’m amazed. Taking up a lot of time to discuss the democrats plan to curtail the 1st is great.. I’d love to see the sycophantic press report on that.
Mad as a hatter.
Yeah, pass it, and see what happens in the SCOTUS... Even with the tilt of the court right now, it will put corporates in the Puerto Rico box. No representation? No taxation.
Gosh, it is awful when SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERTS fail to, you know, actually read rulings.
Wrong.
The GOP knew exactly what they were doing.
Like the McCain/Feingold bill did?
So,... he doesn’t like having to walk in his own feces, eh?
“GOP is thinking? I’m amazed.”
My thoughts exactly. What happened? This could be considered strategy. Haven’t seen any of that from this bunch in a long time.
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