Nation Magazine Debates Itself on Filibusters (Katrina vanden Heuvel discovers they are invaluable)

NewsRealBlog.com ^ | November 2, 2009 | Ben Johnson

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It's good to see the modern Left still maintains the intellectual dexterity it exhibited when it hewed to the ever-changing Stalinist party line in the 1930s. On MSNBC's The Ed Show, Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel took the bold position that Senate Democrats must "bust the filibuster," ending the right of the minority party to stall important legislation -- a position totally at odds with that of...Katrina vanden Heuvel. Katrina told Ed:

We need the president to take a stand that is bold, honest, courageous, clear, forceful, unequivocal, to tell those senators on the Democratic side they have to stop the filibuster. The president has not done that...The president should do it, and should do it now. We win if the president stands with us.

She expounded later:

The major question, Ed, is moving forward, the need to revise the Senate rules. Can’t do it now, but you've got to bust that filibuster. It's anti-Democratic. And Joe Lieberman is just the most blatant evidence of the dangers.

(Once again, the MSNBC's transcript for The Ed Show is erroneous. The network of record claims Katrina said leftists need to "revive the Senate rules.")

What a difference 60 senators makes. In March 2005, Katrina posted a blog entry on the Nation website hailing Sen. Robert Byrd, D-Kleagle, for issuing a "warning to the Republic" about....

[Sherman Logan]

To be perfectly fair, there were conservatives five years ago talking about dumping the filibuster who have suddenly decided it’s a crtical institution.

IAF, it’s merely a tradition of the Senate. Nothing constitutional about it at all.

[bassmaner]

This is same POS that told her own daughter that the American flag was a 'symbol of oppression' when flags were flying after 9/11.

What an ugly, bitter c**t.

[VeniVidiVici]

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editor of The Nation

The Nation. Just the wrong one.

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Katrina vanden Heuvel is a low-grade sycophant who looks like she’s perpetually stoned and could be replaced in her television appearances by a mannequin and some pre-recorded far-left talking points.