Posted on 01/03/2013 12:53:20 PM PST by pabianice
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has announced he will begin the new Congress today by violating Senate rules and forcing through a set of procedural changes that will undermine Senate conservatives' ability to influence legislation. But the "Reid Plan" will have its most dramatic impact on presidential nominations, especially for the Supreme Court.
The Senate is a unique legislative body that protects the rights of individual senators both to debate and to amend. These rights are valued so highly that it takes a supermajority -- today, 60 votes -- to deny fellow senators those rights. This higher vote threshold and the prospect of extended debate encourage deliberation, compromise and moderation.
Many Senate liberals want to gut this long-standing protection for minorities. Buried in the Reid Plan is a new rule, the "standing filibuster requirement," that will allow a partisan majority to shut off deliberation and pass legislation by a bare majority. Disguised as a debate-promoting measure, this new plan is actually just a mechanism to eliminate the higher vote threshold that has long been required to proceed to final passage of bills and nominations.
This spells the effective end to minority rights in the Senate. Today's 60-vote bar to end debate will be gone, and the Senate will be transformed into President Obama's rubber stamp.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
All the more incentive to win back the Senate in 2014.
One more check on my “this is fascism” list for the so called Deomcrat ( Nationalist Socialist) Party.
Good Briefing:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
You see there are no minority opinions allowed in the United States of Zimbabwe Congress. Minority opinions are what fascists say they are.
You would think Harry would be smart enough to realize that he has seven democrat senators from Red states that are in serious danger of losing in 2014, and once the filibuster is gone, it’s gone...for future senates where democrats are the minority as well...
Bill Frist was afraid to do this and W’s nominees languished in limbo.
Reid will pay for his perfidy.
Sessions said if Reid did this the GOP would shut the Senate down.
Ried is just a “useful idiot” for Obama. This is all part of Obama’s agenda to “BURY THE CONSTITUTION” -— as it is reportedly stated, that he told Putin, in spite of Putin’s own warnings about Obama’s agenda....
Read this for more history: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1299.htm
The greatest enemy of America is a domestic one....
Wait where are the “Concerned” Senators? Where is the Media outrage....What No gang of 14? Sen. Grahamnesty is fine with Democrats ending the filibuster?? Oh that’s right the Selective Outrage only happens when Republicans are in charge. The RINO’s in Washington are fine being the permanant minority in Congress as long as the Dems are their “Friends”......
“Weepy” Boehner did promise that the House would take-up no bills the senate passed after it eliminated the filibuster. But that won’t stop Obama’s psychotic judicial appointments, will it?
Boehner needs to come out and tell Reid that if he does do this, the House will send the Defense and Social Security budgets and appropriations bills to the Senate and that will be all of the government that will be funded until his tyranny is reversed.
Oh wait.. This is Boehner I’m talking about.. He’ll just cry.
If just 3 of them kick the bucket soon ...
Sen Jeff Sessions said that this would happen.
No he won't. Liberal facsists never pay a price for what they do...
Do you think “No-Chin” McConnell won’t cave in 2014 when Reid is under 50 Senators and the Mainstream Media screams for “minority rights” that the so vocally did under Bush?
Our side folds before the flop.
We have no stones, no convictions and a media who scares us. I hope that dizbag beats McConnell next election.
Win back the senate? LOL. We will have a hard time hanging on to the House.
Oh, like Lautenberg? Krispy Kreme Christy would probably promote the illegal alien sex criminal working for Mendez to promote.
I don't much think so today....
Inhofe and Coburn....our my state's Senator's.
I'm sorry to say it....Coburn has gone into hiding really....and Inhofe is mute too.
I'm switching to the Independent party....after 30 plus years of being a Pubbie.
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