This is a liberal attempt to make the Senate into a simple majority body, eliminating the 60 vote threshold to end fillibusters.
It is important to keep the fillibuster in place as liberals are planning on giving DC and other “territories” voting rights in the Senate, thereby giving the liberals 4 to 6 more votes.
Is John McCain reaching across the aisle now with his commie friends?
When the rules hurt them, their position is "hey, rules were made to be broken."
Why not wait until just before the GOP takes over, and then abolish the filibuster?
It looks like the Dems are coming to their senses and realizing what is very likely to be the case, starting 2 years from now - which is a Republican Senate, House, and White House. If they change the rules in the Senate now...the Republicans will simply let the new rules stand in 2013 (I hope, at least). If they do not change the rules...then the Republicans will not change them either, and the 60 vote filibuster stands (and the Reps will not have 60 votes in 2013 - 55 maybe, but not 60).
The last thing the Dems want to do is give the Reps uncontested power in that situation.
I was hoping they’d go through with this, based on the following:
1) Nothing bad is going to get through the House
2) If the Reps in the Senate put the existing group of Constitution-hating judges on the Supreme Court, they will let ANYONE else go there - so having a filibuster doesn’t help them.
3) The reps generally (but not always) roll over for lower nominations - this is the only place where they could get hurt by a change in the rules...and I’m willing to give that one to the Dems.
Obviously, the Dem leadership figured out exactly the same, which is why they’re putting a lid on it.
Our Government is a Farce.
In the House where republicans won the majority, all the Democrats can talk about is how we need to be bi-partisan.
In the Senate where Democrats rule all they can talk about is how to screw the republicans with new rules.
I don’t know why the Senate is having such a problem,There are enough Republicans such as Snowe, Collins ,Brown, Hatch, Mccain, Grahamnesty,and Lugar, that I doubt they will face any filibusters in the first place.
This has been all about the Supreme Court from the start. Ginsberg is old, in poor health and wants to retire. She has been the anchor of the far left in SCOTUS and the wing nuts are afraid her replacement won’t be as much of a socialist. Obama had 2 far left picks unchallenged, and he was going for a trifecta. You can be certain that if they succeeded and then replaced Ginsberg with another Kagan, they would admit that the idea was wrong and seek to reverse it.
In liberalism/socialism/communism - the only guiding principle is that the ends justify the means. Know what we are dealing with and don’t fall for the tricks.