Posted on 04/11/2017 1:35:02 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle says Democrats are more to blame in the destruction of “institutional pillars” of the upper chamber than Republicans.
In a podcast interview released Sunday with Real Clear Politics Executive Editor Carl Cannon, the South Dakota Democrat described how Democrats and Republicans argued with each other over the filibuster and the nuclear option just a few years ago.
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[Daschle:] Unfortunately, Democrats have far dirtier hands when it comes to the erosion of the institutional pillars of the Senate than Republicans going all the way back to–you know, they used to do filibusters in the House and the Senate. And the Senate the House took them away in the 1830s, and the Senate began taking them away under Woodrow Wilson in 1917–then getting rid of the talking filibuster in the 70s–and then the whole budget process was a Democratic product, and that was in my view a procedural disaster.
Daschle added, “Then we lowered the threshold from 67 to 60. That was a Democratic effort. And then in 2013, we took it away completely for nominations and that was Democratic. So, Democrats who may lament this institutional deterioration, I think there’s a lot of history here that can’t be explained away.”
Daschle served as majority leader of the upper chamber when President George W. Bush first came to office in 2000. Democrats used their majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee to stall incoming Bush nominees at the time from eventual confirmation. However, after losing the majority of the Senate in 2002, Democrats started an unprecedented partisan judicial filibuster against Bush D.C. Circuit Court appointment Miguel Estrada in 2001. The practice continued on other Bush judicial nominees thereafter.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/09/tom-daschle-dems-more-to-blame-for-erosion-of-institutional-pillars-of-senate/#ixzz4dyVmYHFn
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Yep. The Andy Griffith Show is still watched by millions. Simpler times for sure.
But to change with the times, they now call it, "CSI: Mayberry".
Better times, no question.
Andy goes undercover to find out wher Rafe Hollister’s still really is !
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