Blog Running – ‘The Morning Plum: Republicans whitewash history of filibuster’
This is the face of what is wrong with the Republican Party.
‘Mitch McConnell, speaking about the Obama administration, in an interview yesterday on CNN’:
“They’re ashamed to mention any of the things that they do with Republicans, because it steps on their storyline. Their storyline is that there must be some villain out there who’s keeping this administration from succeeding.”
@ : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitch-mcconnells-cheerful-cynicism/2011/10/24/gIQAR45dCM_blog.html
‘Mitch McConnell’:
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”
@ : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitch-mcconnells-cheerful-cynicism/2011/10/24/gIQAR45dCM_blog.html
‘Yes, that Mitch McConnell’:
“We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals,” McConnell says. “Because we thought — correctly, I think — that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there’s a broad agreement that that’s the way forward.”
@ : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/mitch-mcconnells-cheerful-cynicism/2011/10/24/gIQAR45dCM_blog.html
‘So it’s looking more and more likely that Harry Reid and Democrats will introduce some sort of package of filibuster reforms at the start of the next Congress’.
‘Politico reports this morning that Republicans are preparing to go to war against the reforms, and are threatening to grind the Senate to a halt in retaliation’:
“I think the backlash will be severe,” Senator Tom Coburn, the conservative firebrand, said sternly. ”If you take away minority rights, which is what you’re doing because you’re an ineffective leader, you’ll destroy the place. And if you destroy the place, we’ll do what we have to do to fight back.”
“It will shut down the Senate,” the incoming Senate GOP whip, Texas Senator John Cornyn, told Politico. “It’s such an abuse of power.”
‘Senator Cornyn claims reform will “shut down the Senate.” In reality, Republicans used the filibuster itself in an effort to effectively do just that, rendering the Upper Chamber dysfunctional to deny Obama bipartisan victories, pin the blame for ineffectual governance on him, and render him a one-term president’.
‘The package of reforms most likely to be adopted would not take away the ability of the minority to block legislation supported by a majority of the Senate’.
‘That’s right: While the reforms currently being considered would force filibustering into the open and end the ability to filibuster before proceeding to debate and in other situations, they would not — repeat, not — mean an end to the filibuster on ending debate and having a final vote on any bill’.
From : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum/2012/11/26/ed427eb6-37bb-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_blog.html
The Last Of The Millenniums 