Memo to McCain and Collins: how did that "reaching across the aisle" work for you? Ok, you two, repeat after me:
Ted Cruz is right!
Ted Cruz is right!
Ted Cruz is right!
The fly in your ointment: Boehner.
Boehner is wobbly. We never know which side of an issue he will come down on.
If any legislation does make it to the Senate, the compromise committee will get the Senate-preferred version passed.
They never intend to be out of power.
The author under-estimates the Republican leadership!!
Socialists want as much majority rule power as possible when they are in charge, but then shut down democratic processes to maintain power. That has been their modis operandi for 100 years. This isn’t any different.
Now the question is, what is their 9 month game plan to secure power?
I don’t understand. How is this the case?
Reid knows exactly what he did.
Dems will vote to change the rule back after the ejection and before GOP takes over. Bank on it.
Mr. Reid is following orders to offset Great Leader’s disapproval numbers.
Like they had a chance anyway?
Just heard McCain on local radio saying how *upset* he is about this. Went on to say that there are some things that come up in the senate that *require* bipartisanship and this will make it much harder to do. Went on to say that republicans are still banded together because of 0bamacare. Sure, he really stood behind Ted Cruz didn’t he?
They aren’t undoing a two century precedent, they are undoing their own ten-year-old precedent.
It was the Democrats starting when they went back to the minority in 2003 who adopted the filibuster as a systemic tool to block nominees when the President had a majority in the Senate. This was unheard of when Clinton had a majority (1993 and 1994) and for the long stretch (1977 to 1987) after the adoption of the modern filibuster.
Strategically it makes sense. Obama is willing and able to appoint judges far more outside the mainstream than a President Cruz or Christie would likley to with a Republican Senate in 2017.
bfl
This is a desperation move. They WANT the focus of the next year to be partisan bickering. And not Obamacare. It’s their one remaining option to possibly hold enough Senate seats to keep a minimal majority.
The vast majority of the public has no idea how the filibuster works or how important it is. Thank the implosion of civics in public school education over the last 50 years.
He’ll be using EOs (Executive Orders) by the file cabinet-load now, to get done what he wants, over the next 3 years, to bypass the US Congress.
Do you suppose that when the 2014 election puts the Republicans back in control the Democrats will reverse what they did yesterday??